trash talk

Good work with the trash, Kraken. From a quick interweb search it looks like that's a '60's era Pepsi can.

Thought someone was getting flamed...and they are the people that just say F'it and toss stuff anywhere they please... luckily theres people that counter that bad mentality...and I loved the "scouts" comment "leave it cleaner that when you started" old school,,,

Right Freakin ON!!!  going to have to snag and snap some pics of trash!!!  Had an old girl friend that would pickup orange peels started calling her "OP" but she made me more aware of things...yet I think orange peels is a little too much... 

Thanks for bringing to our attention...and the peeps hauling that major trash...wow...

 The sons of the SanJoaquin managed to break our own flip/flop record.
It took 2 day trips totaling 20 hours from Lost Lake to hwy 99.
We would have had a even higher total but I lost a bag in a bit of challenging water.












Its going to be tough to beat, even with losing a bag, our new record is 57.





the rest of the story is logged here. its not as tragic

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,33196.msg353446.html#new

Terry's pics really tell the story. We totally got after it this trip. We even brought a mask and did some diving for deeper "treasure." Another successful river trip with equal parts, adventure, cleaning and some good fishing. Actually there were some sharp turns towards the end of the trip that were a little too adventurous for me in my T15. I've got to get a smaller boat.

I scored some good stuff Saturday at the Great American River Clean Up Day.  Not only was I blessed with a full kayak of refuse (shore picking and diving), I was gifted a nice diving shad lure from the river that somebody lost and a free participants t-shirt.  It was nice to do something with the kayak besides fish. 

When not yaking I walk/run to try and stay...and found this cool trail behind walmart in puyallup WA... some peoples kids... funny bout picking up trash, you start picking up stuff and you keep seeing more and picking up more... it's kind of contagious...

Strong work guys!

Steve looks like you had a nice load. Glad you were rewarded with the shad lure.

Sledge that last pic is a beauty, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for looking out for mother nature!!!

Went on another SJR trip on 10-10-11 and picked up a good load. I finally trashed my camera and my disposable was full as well, so I didn't get any "on the water" shots. Towards the end of the trip I came up on a buck may be 15' from me on the bank and it would have been a phenomenal shot. Oh well, may be next time he will show up again. I did okay with a number of trout chasers to the boat and I landed 3 in the 13-15" range. I also added a 20" pikeminnow for the hell of it. I missed one fish that would have been my biggest on the river, but after about a 4 minute fight, he threw the hook.      By the way it fought, it was either a large trout or possibly a striper. Next time I will be ready for him.

I did manage a small pile of trash. I basically just stopped in one area and filled the yak. I did find a couple canoe paddles that the river dredged up during the big flow. Too bad the wooden one was missing part of the blade. It would have been a fun project to sand, stain and varnish it to bring it back to life.

This weekend I decided to get rid of the trash and recycle it. I didn't have a great load, but not bad. Pretty much all the cans were stomped and all the plastic bottles crushed and capped (if they had caps). It came to a little over $77 and that will pay for gas for my trip to La Jolla this week. Hopefully, I'll be able to get some nice fish down there and come back with a real post for once.   

Impressive as always big K and good luck in LJ with the polarcat.

Haven't posted in a while, but I'm still at it. Due to low water and no access at Lost Lake, I haven't been able to do my long SJR run where I do the most "cleaning." I've still managed a few solid loads though from a few of my quick trips.

I'm actually combining a few trips in this post. The first pic has all the usual suspects I normally get along with some broken fishing rods (bad day for someone) and a camo net. I found the camo net all twisted up in logs and branches. I pulled it out because the other half of it was in the river and it would make a pretty nasty snare for some critter that stepped through it and then tried to get out of it again. Anyway, yet another solid load of crap off the river.

The next pic has trash that I've accumulated over the last two weekends of fishing. It always blows me away when I find cans that are 20-30 years old. I guess each time we get big flows the riverbed turns over and releases more ancient crap. I'm still hoping to find a gold nugget one of these days!   

My last pic is of some gear I've found. Nothing really great, but I can always use barrel weights.

Until next time.

   Great Job !    Thanks for your efforts.     Love the "swag" photo.

    Noticed golf balls too.  I was hunting Halibut off Monterey  after the cruise ships left and picked up nearly a dozen golf balls off the ocean floor...     out of sight out of mind.   Now if we could only clean up the Pacific Gyre.

I pick up trash when I fish but WOW!!!!!
Nice job guys!!!!

I pick up trash when I fish but WOW!!!!!
Nice job guys!!!!

Thanks for the kind words. We use to do it off and on, now it's just part of our kayak fishing.

We actually went on another San Joaquin River trip on 5-21 and we cleaned again. We went the night before to check out river conditions and we spotted a Roostertail in a tree. We couldn't get it that night, but we were able to get it with our grabbers from the kayak. Besides the normal crap, I got a paddle and we found a kids floaty that was kind of weird. Anyway, here's our latest load.

Scott

After the 5.24.12 SC halibut hookup got canceled, I decided to head to Hensley lake to try for some bass. I arrived and fish were jumping everywhere. I saw a lot of little fish in the shallows, but couldn't get anything. It was only latter I learned most of the jumping fish were carp. Anyway, after I fished for a few hour's I got my first fish on a small rapala and it was a little catfish. So small I didn't take any pics. I went a while longer without any fish, so I decided to get out and stretch for a while. I noticed a lot of garbage, so I decided to clean up a bit for some good karma. For some reason folks like to dump their Propane bottles everywhere? Anyway, I got going again and I decide to try for panfish. After a few hookups that I couldn't get out of the brush, I did land a little bass on a crappie jib. I got one more small guy with a crappie jig at another location. Getting hungry I get out and have lunch and I notice tons of trash. So I start picking up and it's neverending. It was so bad, this was the first time I had to leave trash behind, because my front hatch was full and I also had two bags tied to the back of my boat.

While walking I found a few nice lures as well. I get back on the water and now it's getting windy as hell and I have to get back across the lake. I hit a few more coves first and it pays off for me. I'd been pulling around a large minnow all day hoping for a crappie and instead I get another small cat. I thought this was going to be the day of "smalls," but my day wasn't done yet. I was working a small cove when my trolling rod loads up and I have a nice fish. When the battle ended, I had a 9 lb 26.5" cat on board. I thought this would be a nice addition to my aoty, but I "hosed" the measurement pictures and now it's just a fish picture. Oh well, hopefully this wont be my last cat of the year. Next time I'll work on getting solid pictures.

When I got home I laid all my trash out and I was amazed at all the propane cans. I ended up with 16 cans. Are these things recyclable? I think I've gotten more stuff at other sites, but this was a pretty impressive load of crap, now where it belongs.