Clean up your GARBAGE before you leave the ice!!!

[ONE BIG POLACK]

nothing pi$$es me off more! PICK IT UP PEOPLE! I was driving around today scoping out where to go tomorrow... Notice a lot of [PoorWordUsage] on the ice left by some poor sportsmen! Beer cans, whiskey bottles, cig packs, etc... I went out and picked up after some looser... Keep in mind - litterbug... the lake melts - we already have enough [PoorWordUsage] in the waters!

[IcerRon2010]

+1. It's terrible, how little compassion people have for natural resources. Last couple of times out I have pickued up trash that others leave behind. Sad indeed. Let's all do our part to keep our lake systems clean.

[boec0020]

Sad thing is that those of us that check this site out are probably the ones not doing the littering.

[knoppers]

best commercial ever, many years old. showing a native american with tears in his eyes, with a bunch of garbage littered on the ground.

you bring it out, bring it back, its that simple.

[PlagueWielder]

It kind of makes me sick that I am now in the habit of always bringing a trash bag or two with me when I go out fishing. And I'll tell you it's not for my mess. I don't ever see anyone else picking this carp up and I don't want to look at it next time. The best one lately was on Eagle in Big Lake where I picked up lots of beer bottles, cig butts and packs. The really cool part was where this Jack Wagon wasn't content just littering and had to sink the 6 pack holders in the holes so we could enjoy them all season. Thanks, buddy. I have no problem calling people out when I see them leaving stuff behind and I do it whenever I see it. Let's start the Beatdown Lake Litter Militia. I tried nice. It didn't work.

[harvey lee]

This will never end. We can post about it every year and all it does is continue.

Some people live like pigs and do not care about anything or anyone lese.

Sad but so true.

If one wants to make a differnece, all one can do take a photo of the person doing it with thier vechile license and call them in with proff of the photo.

Or else, if you see one throw stuff on the ice by their ice house, pick it up and ask them to please take the junk with them or you will call the CO or police.

A few tickets might help.

[Minnie_sota_Mike]

Exactly!

Game Warden was looking at mess on German yesterday, Pigs that left the mess were long gone

[Ed Carlson]

Put them cell phones to work, take pics, send them in to TIPS, DNR, G&F, Police, and/or the warden. Be prepared to back up what you see in court if needed.

I would be for a web site where people could post thees pics and dates, and maybe it would shame some people into reforming there bad habits.

[Ol_Bullhead]

And when you get the Ice clean then we can start on the ditches and the rivers and the bike paths

Screaming about it on this forum doesn't change things because the people who do it aren't reading this, most fishermen here are clean the only litter i leave is when a paper blows away in the wind when i open my pickup door otherwise we usually have two bags of garbage behind our fishhouse i take home after a weekend of fishing the only thing that works on these people be a good example by keeping your house clean and picking up there garbage after they leave and if this bothers you go buy some garbage cans and set them around a lake,as my kid told me "cry yourself a river, build yourself a bridge and get over it....

[DuckBlind]

Guessing they are not on this site. I am tired of reading about this topic. This topic gets posted about every other day. I say just toss the garbage you see on the ice in the back of your truck and get on with your day. It won't stop, idiots everywhere. It is unfortunate but I think this topic is pointless to post. I would rather read about tips, tricks or funny stories about weekends on the ice.

The unedumacated ratards who littter prolee aint on the interlink I rekon.

[Brando]

I agree that it sucks, but picking it up is the only option.

Unless it is incased in 3 inchs of ice like this portable house, tipups, and 1# cylinders, that some one just left on Briggs lake.

There is nothing you can do with that.

[songbirds]

It is all frustrating!!! Yesterday, I was leaving Chisago Lake, passed a 5-gallon green bucket just sittin by itself. I stopped, went back to pick it up-had to leave it. Not only did it have trash in it, but probably close to 30 crappies in it too!!! All 4, 5 inches. Not only a lazy [PoorWordUsage], but a uncaring, wasteful, uneducated, lazy [PoorWordUsage]. Felt bad, but I surely didn't want to try to explain to DNR the situation, had I been stopped. Probably last time I go there. For everyone who doesn't want to see these rants on here-I understand. This will be my only one. Just had to vent.

[BigRock]

Guessing they are not on this site. I am tired of reading about this topic. This topic gets posted about every other day. I say just toss the garbage you see on the ice in the back of your truck and get on with your day. It won't stop, idiots everywhere. It is unfortunate but I think this topic is pointless to post. I would rather read about tips, tricks or funny stories about weekends on the ice.

The unedumacated ratards who littter prolee aint on the interlink I rekon.

+1