Bring a Garbage Bag of Trash Off Your Watershed Month

[Rick]

We are declaring March as the:

Bring a Garbage Bag of Trash Off Your Watershed Month

Announce your clean-up plans here and in your area forum - and we invite others to join you in a clean-up and maybe a little ice fishing afterwards. Please let us know here if you will try to attend. Good hearted people only need apply

Make your plans early enough and remember, even if only you show up it's a deed well done!

[Rick]

Here's the first one that CrappieTom is volunteering to do, even though it's in April - that is very good as well.

CrappieTom would like to invite others out for a clean-up and fishing afterwards.

Saturday April 9. Rochester's Silver Lake Park and Zumbro River from the Seventh Street Bridge to the 19th Street Bridge. Shoreline clean-up.

[Rick]

Saturday March 12th - French Lake in Rice County - NW of Faribault MN close to Shieldsville MN.

8 am Clean-up out of the public access. Bring a Garbage Bag to fill-up. After we each fill a bag we will do a little fishing.

I will be there in my Maroon FishingMinneosta.com truck.

[andy j]

Rick, I like this idea, it bugs me that guys leave junk on the ice, I do what I can to pick up things I see, If there were more users in my area I would get something going. Great Idea!

[Rick]

Andy,

post your planned clean-up effort here and in your area forum and even if only you do it and let us know how it went you've accomplished something.

[Northlander]

We are in the early planning stages of a Trolling for Coho by Day and Smelting by night gathering off of Park Point In Duluth. We will be doing a Beach Clean up as well. Anyone interested keep a look out in the Duluth Forum.

[Lynno62]

Once a week I drive from the little Maple Lake access all the way across Maple to the beach access, and clean up, what i see laying around. Now that it is getting nicer out, and out scouting out other lakes I always stop to pick up what is laying around. I can not understand why people can not pick up there junk. and use a ash tray for there cigs. Thats(JMHO).

[CorynTracySellHomes]

4th Annual Piggie Pick Up Day on East and West Rush Lake!

Saturday March 5th in cooperation with the Rush Lake Improvement Association and FishingMinnesota.com we are having a lake clean up day! This is the week after the Ice shacks need to be removed so come prepared with lots of garbage bags!!! We will be meeting at the both Public Acceses at 10:00AM. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

Cory Frantzick

[Matt Johnson]

[i started a topic in the Metro Forum for those who wish to respond]

I would just like to announce the Late Ice Metro Get Together. Because of all you dedicated FMers and all the fun I've shared with all of you this winter, I'd like to end the ice fishing season with day filled with fishing and fun. So, I'd like to invite all of you for a day of fishing on Medicine Lake. We can spend a good portion of the day fishing the late ice panfish bonanza and then we can spend the later part of the day cleaning up the ice. Here's the details...

Medicine Lake, Saturday, March 12 at the West Medicine Lake Park Access

8am to 2pm will be the panfish bonanza

2pm to 4pm will be the lake clean-up

4pm will be a BBQ/cookout

This will be a great chance to share the fish stories of the 2004/2005 ice fishing season as well as maybe add a few more

Late ice brings with it some incredible panfishing opportunities, and we should see our fair share of panfish caught throughout the day.

I'll be there to guide for free for anyone who needs help, as will several other FMers. This doesn't cost a penny, it's just a chance to cash in on the awesome late ice fishing and a chance to take care and clean-up one of our more well-known Metro lakes and one of the locations of our 2005 ICE Series.

Joe Harty will also be there to enjoy the day with us and we can also show him our support for all the hardwork he has done this winter.

I'll provide all the garbage bags. You just need to bring something to toss on the grill and something to drink (along with your fishing gear).

I'm looking forward to it. I hope to see a lot of you there!

Good Fishin,

Matt Johnson

[M.T. Bucket]

March? Great idea, but all the trash could still be under snow up here...

[Rick]

Then we can sneak it into April. How does that sound?

Who else is in for a good cause like this?

[fishingbuddy]

Hey Rick

I live across from Big Lake in WI. On Sunday I drove around the lake on my four wheeler and picked up almost a full bag a trash. One gentlemen drove up to me in his truck and said "What are you doing" I said picking up trash. The look on his face was priceless. He looked embarresed and jumped in his truck and drove away. Made my whole day.

[Rick]

I've heard that often others who knew nothing about picking up trash events just joined in once they saw others doing it.

Click Here to see Metro Clean-up info

Click Here to see Rochester Area Clean-up info

Click Here to see SouthCentral MN Clean-up info

Click Here to see East Central MN Clean-up info

or plan your own and let us know about it here

[witter1631]

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We are declaring March as the:

Bring a Garbage Bag of Trash Off Your Watershed Month

Announce your clean-up plans here and in your area forum - and we invite others to join you in a clean-up and maybe a little ice fishing afterwards. Please let us know here if you will try to attend. Good hearted people only need apply

Make your plans early enough and remember, even if only you show up it's a deed well done!

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Yes very good idea!! i am from central Wisconsin and I take time and go to the wisconsin river clean up its amazing what we pull out of it and how much trash we get but me and my freinds usually pick up everything we see and throw it in our bucket but I am glad other people have concern of preserving our precious fishing thats why I like this forum

[Mr.Seaguar]

These are great guys. My dad and I were out a couple weeks ago and picked up some junk left by other groups. He made the comment that you dont see a third of the stuff you did years ago. So thats good too but there still is some out there. We looked for some but didnt find much. Hope you guys have a great time.

[Guest]

Rick: was out and picked up a little lake named Silver Lake just east of Arlington were I live.While picking up,I noyiced there was not a garbage can at the landing.Iam going to call the local conversation officer and see if he will give me permission to put a can at the landing.If you want you could ship me a F.M. decal, and i could put it on the can along with the garbage sign.

[Guest]

I was thinking about this and if everyone would take a few minutes and clean up the landing at your lake every time you went there,the need for the lake clean-ups would not be needed,kind of like adopt a lake program.All it would take is 10 minutes every time your done fishing for the day.

[Matt Johnson]

Well, I had a great time today! I got to meet a few new faces as well as hang out with some familiar ones. It was great to see everyone pitching in a cleaning up the lake, I think we left the place spotless when we were done! Several bags of trash when all was said and done...

Casey and Mike with their hands full. Mike even got lucky and found a tire

The powwow after picking up the trash

We also spent a good portion of the day chasing down some pannies. Not a whole lot of big sunfish and crappies but we did manage to watch a few bass and pike take our jigs while site fishing...

Casey with a largemouth

Casey with a pike

Another largemouth

Garrett working over a school of crappies

Garrett with his BIG catch!

The bug-eyed crappie!!

Today was a pretty successful day. We cleaned up the lake, caught some fish and had a lot of fun hanging out and enjoying a day on the ice!

Thanks to everyone who made it to Medicine Lake today and enjoy the rest of the ice season!

Good Fishin,

Matt Johnson

[Tom Linderholm]

A day starting with trolling Park Point for all the predatory fish of our beloved smelt. Followed by a cook out on the shores of Lake Superior and a clean up to follow along Park Point. Then finish off the evening with a few pulls of a seine for those ever elusive smelt.

I've talked with a few people and checked last years posts and came up with a date of 4/20/05. This lands on a Wednesday. Seems the folks I have talked to can make this date but if it doesn't work, well then back to the drawing board.

Check The BWCA-DULUTH-RANGE forum for more info.