05-03-2016, 05:45 PM
Been reading ongoing thread for several days. I don't believe that just because a person is a bank tangler, they are trashy. I fished the banks of many rivers and lakes from California to Georgia, Florida, England, and even Panama, before I could afford my first boat 11 years ago. I was trained in the habit from age 4 or 5, if it doesn't grow there naturally, and is obviously trash, pick it up. Whether is was mine or not. I still do that. I don't really like to, but it's the way I was raised. Then I bought my first boat in 2004, and was surprised to see how much trash was floating on whatever water I was on at the time. Did it blow out onto the water from the trash on the shore, did it blow out of someone's boat, or was it just carelessly dropped over the side of a boat? If I didn't actually see how it got there, I couldn't and wouldn't say. But I have detoured my fish trolling direction dozens of times to use my fish net to scoop up something out of the water that sure as heck didn't grow there. I've seen other boaters both anglers and power squadron do the same. So IMHO, it isn't so much how or where you fish, but how you were raised, and what you personal mindset is. Just like rendering assistance to boaters that have gotten themselves in a bad situation out of bad luck, bad judgment, or downright stupidity. No matter how they got there, no matter how the trash got there, if you know what the right thing to do is, you help, or pick up the trash, BECAUSE you know its the right thing to do.
OK my 2 cents worth. [fishin]
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OK my 2 cents worth. [fishin]
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"OCD = Obsessive Catfish Disorder "
Or so it says on my license plate holder
Or so it says on my license plate holder
