Your Fishing Garbage?

[N.Y. Yankee]

What do you do with your trash that gets created from fishing such as pieces of line, broken hardware, snack wrappers and just general small trash items?

[Mike L]

In my tackle bag or pocket until I get to the ramp or home

 

 

 

 

Mike

[Dirtyeggroll]

In the floor of the boat until the end of the day then in the trash at the ramp. If it’s windy, in one of the rear compartments.

[Jig Man]

I don’t usually have any.  I take 32 oz of ice water in a Yeti cup.  I don’t eat while on the water.  

 

[Big Rick]

I trust the majority of the members here use the super power of common sense and place their trash in a secure location until a trash receptacle is available. 

 

What other option is there???

[A-Jay]

7 minutes ago, Big Rick said:

I trust the majority of the members here use the super power of common sense and place their trash in a secure location until a trash receptacle is available. 

 

What other option is there???

Perhaps place it in the litterbag in your truck once you get to the ramp.

When that bag gets filled simply chuck it out the window as you drive home.

But make sure it lands on a nicely manicured lawn,

that way you know it will get picked up.

Finally, don't leave any mail in that bad boy . . . . 

j/k

?

A-Jay

 

[GaryH]

I bought a small minnow bucket just for that purpose. It stores easily and just dump contents in trash when I leave the water.

[J._Bricker]

I chuck trash in the boat’s cooler and remove it from there when I get back home. Trashed plastic baits might end up in a plastic water bottle to be recycled.

[gim]

8 minutes ago, J._Bricker said:

I chuck trash in the boat’s cooler and remove it from there when I get back home. Trashed plastic baits might end up in a plastic water bottle to be recycled.

This is pretty much exactly what I do too.  If I see any balls of discarded line at the access or on the water I pick those up too.

[N.Y. Yankee]

56 minutes ago, Jig Man said:

I don’t usually have any.  I take 32 oz of ice water in a Yeti cup.  I don’t eat while on the water.  

 

So, what about pieces of line, torn up soft plastics, bent hooks, that type of thing, not just food wrappers?

[Darth-Baiter]

my right pocket of my fishing PFD.  i leave it empty for trash.

 

if trash is a bunch of tamale corn husk wrappers, i stuff it into cup holder.  

[Deephaven]

I bought a tacklewebs bag to collect little garbage like line.

 

Empty plastic bottles/cans go into a bag in the built in cooler, hooks/tackle get hung on a magnet or TH marine undercompartment rack, and any food items go into a ziplock.  I was using a less compartmentalized setup before but this works killer and keeps everything off the floor of the boat and most importantly out of the lake.

[Choporoz]

I make it a point to always bring in more trash than I generate.   Probably easier in a kayak than it would be in a boat.

 

A couple weeks ago, I pedaled over to pick up a wayward yellow and orange 1 inch bobber.  As I went to grab it....it took off.  I chased that stupid bobber for about 15-20 minutes.   Got a paddle blade on the line underneath and couldn't nudge it closer.  Never saw what was on the other end.

[GreenPig]

Trash goes into water bottle, bottle is crushed down so it won't fly out of the boat and thrown away when I get out of the truck at home.

[Bird]

Empty water bottles, wrappers, soft plastics that have been molested all get thrown in the cooler.

Cooler gets dumped and washed out apon arriving home.

[gim]

28 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

As I went to grab it....it took off.  I chased that stupid bobber for about 15-20 minutes. 

LOL I've tried that too.  Never caught the stupid thing and wasted half an hour trying.  I always wondered how big the fish on the other end was...

[Jmilburn76]

Anything I have goes in floor of kayak,I always try to pick up trash I see as I go.I especially try to get line thats in tangled in trees, I find plenty of lures that way plus it dont get caught on any wildlife. 

[scaleface]

I save soft plastics for melting down the road . Trash goes in the trash .

[Darth-Baiter]

53 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

I make it a point to always bring in more trash than I generate.   Probably easier in a kayak than it would be in a boat.

 

A couple weeks ago, I pedaled over to pick up a wayward yellow and orange 1 inch bobber.  As I went to grab it....it took off.  I chased that stupid bobber for about 15-20 minutes.   Got a paddle blade on the line underneath and couldn't nudge it closer.  Never saw what was on the other end.

hahaha.. dang.. now i am wondering what was on the line!!  argh.  

[crypt]

I keep a trash bag in the boat that catches everything.

[casts_by_fly]

2 hours ago, N.Y. Yankee said:

So, what about pieces of line, torn up soft plastics, bent hooks, that type of thing, not just food wrappers?

 

3 hours ago, Dirtyeggroll said:

In the floor of the boat until the end of the day then in the trash at the ramp. If it’s windy, in one of the rear compartments.

 

Asked and previously answered by another.  If I see line in a tree or bush that I'm fishing along I'll usually pull it if I can.  Any trash of my own stays in the boat.  I clean the boat out every now and then.  

[Mobasser]

Carry a trash bag with you and dispose of the trash properly. Leave no trace is a good motto to have.

[fin]

I don’t generate much trash. I don’t eat or drink when fishing. I drink a liter of water before going out and have a liter in the car for when I get back. Soft plastics go in my front pocket and then go in a bucket of soft plastics when I get home. I can’t remember the last time I had broken hardware, but I guess it would go in my back pack. Anything with hooks would go in my Plano or in a bag of worms.

 

Fishing line is complicated. Generally I will coil it up and stick it in back pocket. Line that I find on the ground I will sometimes stuff it into plastic bottles that are laying around. The main trick with line is to wad it up and then twist it into like a piece of rope and then tie a knot in that. That makes it much easier to store in your pocket.

 

17 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

Carry a trash bag with you and dispose of the trash properly. Leave no trace is a good motto to have.

 

I keep forgetting to stuff a trash bag in my back pack. I'm going to do that right now.

 

Generating as little trash in life as possible is a good goal too.

[MickD]

2 hours ago, N.Y. Yankee said:

what about pieces of line,

Line is a big killer of birds, so proper disposal is important.  Before putting it into the trash cut it into pieces no longer than about 8 inches or so.  Or, it's easier, to just collect it in a container of some sort, then burn it so it cannot tangle with wildlife.  I take it home, have a plastic container in the pole building, keep putting scrap line into it until it's full, then toss it into a fire.

 

A-Jay, I live in the country, and I'm the recipient of the stuff you mention.  I have always wondered about pickup truck owners.  Do they never wonder what the heck happens to all that stuff they throw into the backs of their trucks, but don't find it there when they get home? 

 

[Bankbeater]

I carry my water in a 2 litre soda bottle.  I take it home rinse it out and reuse it.  I carry my snacks in a glad bag.  I put the trash back in the bag, squeeze the air out of it, and then put it back in the tackle bag.