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| Hey,
I just wanted to hear what you guys think about this topic. I live 20 minutes from the Fox River in Green Bay. I actually cross it every day on my way to work. I caught my first two muskies
12 years ago in Door County but have only fished the Fox three times.
I regularly, weekly in the summer, drive right by it on my way to other fishing locations. I can't stand fishing the place. The Fox has really come on strong the last few years. Many, many reports about both numbers and some real fatties showing up. But have you fished that sewer? I don't know what I like the least the coal piles, police sirens, floating fast food bags,
overhead traffic, 3 inch water clarity, trolling emphasis, semi-trailer parks, waste treatment plants w/ their lovely odor, etc.
I do fish other heavily developed lakes but I can't seem to find myself stopping at the Fox.
Am I nuts?
I know that a lot of guys will snicker and say go ahead fish someplace else.
Here's my question: Do any of you avoid good fishing spots for reasons such as these?
Bill C. |
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| I know what you mean. Some of the lakes and rivers nowadays are so polluted it makes you sick.
My parents live in a town that has a lake and when you drive by it during the summer it smells just awful.
I have heard about people who live on the lake getting headaches from the smell. It is gross.
I am going to start taking pictures of all the seriously polluted lakes and start emailing them to the EPA.
The serenity of it all is ruined when your fishing places like that. If people would put the environment over
the all mighty dollar things would change. How come they can't clean it up like they did the Mississippi?
It is only going to get worse. They are saying over 400 million in the U.S. by the end of the century.
Seeing places polluted by man always makes me think of that Tool song Aenima.
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be.
Moms gonna fix it all soon. Moms coming back to |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | It's not like you are gonna eat a musky anyways.....................
I grew up in Title town. I also grew up fishing the river in question. I also caught my first musky while standing in Voyager Park fishing for walleyes in April (hence the Musky affliction). You get used to it. That river is an untapped (sort of) gold mine. There are a lot of fish throughout the river and the bay. Deal with the stuff you don't like, or fish somewhere else. I am as much a "Green Bay-er" as a New Yorker is a New Yorker. Love my home town, but despise it at the same time. |
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How come they can't clean it up like they did the Mississippi?
It is only going to get worse.
they HAVE cleaned it up! sheesh.
and it's getting better, not worse.
i lived two blocks away from the Fox River in Green Bay back when going skiing for an afternoon meant a week of itchy red rash and you didn't dare think of eating any fish out of there. i remember walking down to try shore fishing below the De Pere bridge in the spring back before it was so crammed with boats that you can walk from shore to shore.
now it's a world-class walleye fishery and everybody's going "Shhhhh" about the muskie fishing.
the end of a river that runs through the kind of population centers that the Fox runs through is going to have trash get washed into it. fishing downtown in a major port city means coal piles and bridges.
is it pretty? nope.
is it polluted? yep.
is it WAY better than 15 years ago? heck yeah!
if you want pretty, keep driving, but don't try to tell that it's a cesspool and "getting worse"! |
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| I guess the idea of letting corperations police themselves may not be working, I was told water was the best its been in 30yrs? Ahh the smell of sulfer and methane, biohazard bags, CO gas and a wet line, our founding fathers would be so proud  I think Geust was right, Mothers comming to put things back the way they outta be |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Every spring I hit DePere and every spring I jig up a Musky on a Zip Lure. I know a guy who walleye guides up there and he told me they caught one pretty close to 50". Said he didn't even want it in his pretty Ranger!
I'd keep fishing it until the water got so warm the fish leave. |
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | How much "trophy walleye" trolling is going on before the muskie season opens there? How does the DNR respond to seeing people doing this? I'm guessing people that are doing this don't have a musky net in the boat. |
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No way to the Fox! Am I crazy?