Try to rap your brains around this one...If your local safeway closed, you would drive to the next closes store to buy your food...You would not starve and die. Though I'm starting to thing a few of you are that dumb....If one section of the creek gets filled in with silt and the food source get choked out, the fish will move up or down river to find a new steady source of food..If Safeway runs out of bananas you will eat apples...If Putah looses its caddis they will eat tiny black midges...Its not hard to find and catch fish on Putah. Find the areas with the most food , room and enough oxygen to hold lots of fish and you are have solved half the puzzle.
One more tid bit.I read about people saying they pick up trash all the time and I'm sure some might. I will say this.I almost never ever see anyone packing trash around with them while they are fishing.If all these people are doing what they say(type), Putah would one clean ass place except for the poop stained TP down at #5
SK60 and his crew are the ONLY ones I've seen make a difference thats created change for the better......
Join PCT and get your hands dirty or stop blowing hot air.
Word Steve. If everyone is picking up trash on the creek, how is it that I was able to gather two trash bags full, plus an old tire, out of a single access area this past weekend? It don't add up.
BTW, I stopped at Safeway on my out to the creek and picked up a weeks worth of groceries for the trout. Got some beer for the Otters too. Unfortunately the Otters weren't home.
Why is there constantly trash you ask? The simple answer is that unfortunately people continue to litter. Believe it or not a lot of non-fishermen drive Hwy 128 and use the access areas for various other uses. Its probably safe to say that the majority of litter comes from motorists and non-fishermen. Especially now that the evil bait fishermen are gone ...haha.
Im not aware of what other fishermen do when they go to Putah but I know what I do. I appreciate the PCT but you dont need organized events to make a difference. Get out on the creek, keep an eye out for illegal activity, talk to and educate other fishermen and pick up some trash, its that simple. If everyone did this every time they went to the creek it would have a significant impact.
Robert
-- Edited by hobbs on Tuesday 11th of January 2011 01:00:31 AM
...haha.