thunderpole
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pick up your line!
Just a reminder to all to pick up your fishing line I fished the wall yesterday and when I left my pack was filled with others junk line please pick it up!
I'd rather be lucky then good,but im to good to be lucky
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outasync
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Re:pick up your line!
2013/04/08 16:25:55
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Thats why i carry a plastic bag with me. I havnt found much so far except for about 20 ft attached to a hot-n-tot
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Re:pick up your line!
2013/04/08 16:50:55
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Re:pick up your line!
2013/04/08 18:51:48
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Good job Thunderpole [and all others]! I do the same thing at different places I frequent, but I carry a box of garbage can sized bags. It is a bit disappointing when I return to a place that I had absolutely clean the previous week and it looks as if nobody had picked up any litter at all.
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troutguy
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Re:pick up your line!
2013/04/08 20:04:19
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Kudos to you thunderpole. I get very irratated by the so called "fishermen" who litter. Just don't get it. I try to pick up stuff when I can, but some places you need to bring multiple garbage bags! And one thing I've always been puzzled with is how do people leave so much line laying around? I mean we all get in a few tangles here and there(but it's not that hard to not get into a super massive tangle), but it's like they're stripping off all of their line and respooling on the water or something. And then all the non bunched up line still in the water from snags and stuff. When you get a snag you can't get out, break the line(by pooling on it to break it off at the hook) instead of cutting it off near the reel and leaving behind a hundred yards of line in the water.
post edited by troutguy - 2013/04/08 20:05:55
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psu_fish
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Re:pick up your line!
2013/04/08 20:17:09
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We are a wasteful nation, so its no surprise, people leave trash along the creeks, shorelines and banks
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outasync
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Re:pick up your line!
2013/04/08 20:21:18
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Last year during the spring bite id get to the lake around midnight and for 50 yards up the bank from the docks id find line in basically every single tree. Guys were getting snagged then instead of sticking it in their pocket hang it in the tree. I even found some 'flags' someone was using to mark where they caught fish... that one i was reluctant to remove but not long after the bite ended they came down too
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Mags00
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Re:pick up your line!
2013/04/08 22:26:15
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Kudos to anyone who picks up line and others garbage... Granted we shouldn't have to do something as simple as that for others. What is most bothersome to me about line is I've rescued a Red Tip Blackbird who was caught in line just flailing and flopping at the shore of a lake down near home. I can only imagine how much longer that poor little guy woulda had if I didn't manage to free him. One day it could be something more majestic than that but that probably won't stop people from being jagoffs and slobs... 
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thunderpole
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Re:pick up your line!
2013/04/09 02:30:27
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Yea great point if I set my pole down get tangled or walk along and get tangled think of all the waterfowl and birds and critterz that get tangled and die cuz I'm sure they ant got a knife on them to get free I'm tired of it I mean ur to good to knot it up and put it in ur pocket? U need punched in the face ...... keep reading trolls lol
I'd rather be lucky then good,but im to good to be lucky
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Re:pick up your line!
2013/04/09 11:30:43
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I almost always find discarded line and pack it out with me when I leave. I don't think leaving messages on this board will have any effect. My guess is the people that have enough interest to read about fishing, aren't the target audiance we need to reach. It's the uniformed and downriight ignorant, that just down' t care. I take a further guess that the children of those who litter and lay waste to fishing, picnic, and every other area, will do the same things.
But I keep picking up the line.
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Mags00
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Re:pick up your line!
2013/04/09 12:05:10
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I am forever picking stuff up after people,  This is something that irks me beyond belief. We are lucky to have some of the places that we fish and people have to go and ruin it, just pick up your d**n garbage and fishing line. I had to save a bird once because of being tangled in fishing line. I know at one place we fish there is a sign posted that if people didn't start using the garbage cans they were closing off the access to fish... Really people, I bet they don't throw garbage on the floors in their houses.... Just something that I had to rant about...
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Re:pick up your line!
2013/04/09 22:25:23
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have to agree with your statement wholeheartedly. people on this board are responsible and interested; that is why they read this. those that leave the line (and the plastic containers and pop bottles and cigarette filters and and and and ) don't really give a good crap about the fishing area (and i would venture to say about themselves or others in general). take the garbage bags with you and police the area. THANKS for having a concern for the fishing areas!!!!!!
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CatchinPABass
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Re:pick up your line!
2013/04/10 20:34:05
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Its amazing how many people are so trashy. At the end of the day, my bass boat is full of garbage. Not a bit goes in the lake or on the bank. Now even used beat up soft plastics or bunches of line from back lashes or birds nests. As a youth and participating in various bass clubs we use to team up with parks and recreation and do clean up days. It amazed me that we would fill 20 to 40 garbage bags full per day and a week later it was all back in the freaking areas. People respect no ones efforts these days. It amazed me what we found. There was enough clothing found to clothe a few homeless people for god sakes. Its a shame people cant preserve the woods and water. This is why private areas get closed to fishing and hunting. Lost many great spots over the years due to lazyness. Its sickening.
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