Bamboozle
Well-known member
Demolition is ALWAYS in my playbook...
Mainly because I like to leave things as I found them (you know, the footprints thing) and like to find things as if I was the first person to come across them, as impossible as that is in today's world...
For that reason I hate rock cairns as much as spray paint, worm containers, Y-sticks left in the bank, fire rings or remnants of fires, forts, homemade rock dams and other man-made bull$#!+ in the woods or along streams, lakes, ponds, etc.
Don't leave it behind and tell me it's for someone else to use or admire, get your rocks off (pardon the pun), take a few pics and clean up your F'n mess before you leave...!!
In regards to dams...
There was one dam in particular I came across on a well known Class A that runs though publicly owned property that ran behind some homes whose property DID NOT include the creek. The dam was about 2+feet high and was holding back a lot of water in a very productive little hole.
Every time I fished the creek I'd knock out a section of the dam and when I'd come back, it was fixed and the cycle would continue. Until one day when I saw a canoe down by the water which is beyond bloody ridiculous on this stream.
So I put down my rod and made it's my life's work that day to obliterate the dam rock by rock.
I'm happy to report it's been gone for at least 15+ years so I guess me, the creek and the fish won...
Mainly because I like to leave things as I found them (you know, the footprints thing) and like to find things as if I was the first person to come across them, as impossible as that is in today's world...
For that reason I hate rock cairns as much as spray paint, worm containers, Y-sticks left in the bank, fire rings or remnants of fires, forts, homemade rock dams and other man-made bull$#!+ in the woods or along streams, lakes, ponds, etc.
Don't leave it behind and tell me it's for someone else to use or admire, get your rocks off (pardon the pun), take a few pics and clean up your F'n mess before you leave...!!
In regards to dams...
There was one dam in particular I came across on a well known Class A that runs though publicly owned property that ran behind some homes whose property DID NOT include the creek. The dam was about 2+feet high and was holding back a lot of water in a very productive little hole.
Every time I fished the creek I'd knock out a section of the dam and when I'd come back, it was fixed and the cycle would continue. Until one day when I saw a canoe down by the water which is beyond bloody ridiculous on this stream.
So I put down my rod and made it's my life's work that day to obliterate the dam rock by rock.
I'm happy to report it's been gone for at least 15+ years so I guess me, the creek and the fish won...
