Maybe *they* do, but I was offshore a couple weeks ago and the thought of
throwing any crap overboard repulsed me. While I "know" that if I were to
sink an aluminum can, the salt water would eat it up pretty fast, I just
couldn't bring myself to try it.

-W (took a wiz over the side no problem though)

"Scott Downey" wrote in message
...

You know they dump bargeloads of trash into the water.
And they have been doing it for decades. The seas are littered with
garbage.


"Capt. Frank Hopkins" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Sure man sure, just trash the seas. Nobody needs em anyway.

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:32:06 GMT, "Clams Canino"
wrote:

Maybe *they* do, but I was offshore a couple weeks ago and the thought of
throwing any crap overboard repulsed me. While I "know" that if I were to
sink an aluminum can, the salt water would eat it up pretty fast, I just
couldn't bring myself to try it.

-W (took a wiz over the side no problem though)



Funny how that works, Clams.
When I'm fishing, my trash goes into a plastic bag, and goes home with
me.
If I'm duck hunting (I know, I know), my trash goes home with me.

Meanwhile, the entire riverbank is covered with plastic jugs, beer
cans, tires, and assorted crap.

Little by little, maybe, we can change what others do. Including our
cities.

Regards,
noah ---- guilty of wizzing, but it was really important

On 17 Sep 2003 21:53:11 -0500, noah
wrote:

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:32:06 GMT, "Clams Canino"
wrote:

Maybe *they* do, but I was offshore a couple weeks ago and the thought of
throwing any crap overboard repulsed me. While I "know" that if I were to
sink an aluminum can, the salt water would eat it up pretty fast, I just
couldn't bring myself to try it.

Funny how that works, Clams.
When I'm fishing, my trash goes into a plastic bag, and goes home with
me.

And when you put it in your trash at home, depending on where you live
there's a good chance it'll end up right back offshore again.

Steve

Steven Shelikoff wrote:

On 17 Sep 2003 21:53:11 -0500, noah
wrote:

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:32:06 GMT, "Clams Canino"
wrote:

Maybe *they* do, but I was offshore a couple weeks ago and the thought of
throwing any crap overboard repulsed me. While I "know" that if I were to
sink an aluminum can, the salt water would eat it up pretty fast, I just
couldn't bring myself to try it.

Funny how that works, Clams.
When I'm fishing, my trash goes into a plastic bag, and goes home with
me.

And when you put it in your trash at home, depending on where you live
there's a good chance it'll end up right back offshore again.

Steve

Sad but true.

--
* * *
email sent to will *never* get to me.

And when you put it in your trash at home, depending on where you live
there's a good chance it'll end up right back offshore again.

In some cases this may be true. In some cases if you separate your recycle
it gets thrown into the landfill anyway for any number of reasons.

There are lots of things that go on "upstream" of our garbage that
"shouldn't" in an ideal situation, but at that level you're dealing with
municipal/provincial (or state in your case) inertia and priority
balancing -- ie very slow and cumbersome with big financial limitations.

But we can immediately affect our water quality by not throwing stuff in it.
It doesn't remove the upstream problem (or should that be downstream?), but
at least it doesn't add to it.

Like Clams I can't bring myself to throw stuff overboard, just don't have it
in my DNA to do it. If I spy something floating I'll reach it out with my
boathook if possible. It may be completely useless in the grand scheme of
things, especially considering the fuel I burn ... but it's the best I can
offer.

"noah" wrote in message
news
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:50:42 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

Totally unrelated: Have you ever fished Long Lake? I'm going there on Oct
3
& 4.


Nope. Sorry I can't help.
I would expect it to be similar to Upper Saranac, Big Tupper and
Raquette, but it does get a lot of tourist pressure during the season.
All those floatplanes, y'know?

That late in the season, pike might be the most fun.
noah

I can only hope! My GF has only heard stories, but she's never seen be bring
anything home. (She wasn't in the 'dacks with me for the lake trout). She
needs to stare into a large pike's eyes. She's only read that they'll eat
anything - even baby ducks. :-)

"noah" wrote in message
...


Meanwhile, the entire riverbank is covered with plastic jugs, beer
cans, tires, and assorted crap.


I swear...if I'm ever faced with knowing when I will die, and it's less than
6 months away, I will hunt people who leave that crap, and feed them
hollowpoints for lunch. I'll never get to trial before I die, anyway.

How friggin' hard is it to take the stuff home?

damn Doug, I hate it when people litter, but it sounds like you have crossed
the line when you "swear" you are going to shot them down.


"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...
"noah" wrote in message
...


Meanwhile, the entire riverbank is covered with plastic jugs, beer
cans, tires, and assorted crap.


I swear...if I'm ever faced with knowing when I will die, and it's less
than
6 months away, I will hunt people who leave that crap, and feed them
hollowpoints for lunch. I'll never get to trial before I die, anyway.

How friggin' hard is it to take the stuff home?

Oh well. It's a safe bet that if you followed one of those people around for
a week or two, you could make a long list of other things they do which
drive others crazy, especially their neighbors. If they were wolves, they'd
be exiled to another hill or attacked & killed. It's how the real world
works.

"Bill Cole" wrote in message
news:Mikab.501761$o%2.222328@sccrnsc02...
damn Doug, I hate it when people litter, but it sounds like you have
crossed
the line when you "swear" you are going to shot them down.


"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...
"noah" wrote in message
...


Meanwhile, the entire riverbank is covered with plastic jugs, beer
cans, tires, and assorted crap.


I swear...if I'm ever faced with knowing when I will die, and it's less
than
6 months away, I will hunt people who leave that crap, and feed them
hollowpoints for lunch. I'll never get to trial before I die, anyway.

How friggin' hard is it to take the stuff home?

well, maybe it would make more sense to follow them around and fine them
enough to make it hurt so they won't do it again, or we can get a large
vigilante group to follow people around, if they get a high enough score, we
just shot them. Sounds like a plan. ; )


"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...
Oh well. It's a safe bet that if you followed one of those people around
for
a week or two, you could make a long list of other things they do which
drive others crazy, especially their neighbors. If they were wolves,
they'd
be exiled to another hill or attacked & killed. It's how the real world
works.

"Bill Cole" wrote in message
news:Mikab.501761$o%2.222328@sccrnsc02...
damn Doug, I hate it when people litter, but it sounds like you have
crossed
the line when you "swear" you are going to shot them down.


"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...
"noah" wrote in message
...


Meanwhile, the entire riverbank is covered with plastic jugs, beer
cans, tires, and assorted crap.


I swear...if I'm ever faced with knowing when I will die, and it's
less
than
6 months away, I will hunt people who leave that crap, and feed them
hollowpoints for lunch. I'll never get to trial before I die, anyway.

How friggin' hard is it to take the stuff home?