Powlett River boneheads...

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Powlett River boneheads...

Post by mingle » Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:32 pm

Took the kids along to the Powlett today for a line-wetting session - didn't expect to catch anything and wasn't disappointed...

However, I was more than slightly pissed-off at the amount of crap (as ever) that fishos/bogans leave behind. The path from the road-bridge that heads north along the west side of the river was strewn with empty beer-bottles and cans, 'camp-fires' with half-burnt crap in them, fishing tackle packets and bundles of line dumped in the grass - if these f*ckwits can be bothered to bundle it up, why the hell don't they take it home with them? Also makeshift 'toilets' behind the bushes with scraps of shitty toilet paper all over the place.

Most upsetting of all - especially for the kids - was the sight of a swallow that had obviously picked up a piece of discarded line (presumablyy to make it's nest) and had become entangle in the line and been hung by the neck. Whoever's responsible was perhaps not as malicious as the pr*ck who killed those wedge-tailed eagles, but is equally as deserving of a punch in the face.
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Post by hornet » Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:36 pm

How hard is it to dump all the crap in a plastic bag and at the end of the day throw it in the car ? It's impossible to fathom how little people care.
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Post by rb85 » Tue Oct 02, 2018 6:17 am

It’s a disgrace glad you cleaned up after them.

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Post by Lightningx » Tue Oct 02, 2018 7:42 am

Seen this kind of thing too many times...

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Post by ango » Tue Oct 02, 2018 9:54 am

They will be the first to **** and moan when access is restricted.
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Post by Texas » Tue Oct 02, 2018 11:06 am

Getting or Got to the stage where you can't go anywhere without coming across someone else's rubbish.
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Post by Kaspar » Tue Oct 02, 2018 11:08 am

Good job cleaning after them mate

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Post by fishnut » Wed Oct 03, 2018 5:55 pm

Yea I'm very often picking up rubbish while on the boat,the most stuff i come accross is empty water/iced coffee bottles and sometimes plasticbags

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Post by ChrisTaylor » Thu Oct 04, 2018 1:25 pm

I went on a charter a while ago. I shall not name names, but this charter is held in some esteem around these parts. The service itself was excellent. The vessel. The skipper and crew know their work. They also have the very fine habit of flinging cigarette butts into the bay.

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Post by 4liters » Thu Oct 04, 2018 7:01 pm

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