Sorry for the hijack Salmonella (cool article by the way) but Tom brings up a good point. What is the deal with all the litter?
I'm pretty new to the whole river fishing thing. For the last year I've done a lot of it. Each month I'm visiting new water. I can't believe how much trash is around the parking areas and in/along the rivers. I was fishing a small river last week and could see where some douche bag just dropped his beer cans as he was walking down the middle of the river. Every couple hundred yards there was another of his cans on the gravel or on the bottom.
I've been fortunate enough to visit 46 of our states. Washington has more trash on the side of the freeways than I've seen anyplace. I'm not sure if we just don't have the crews to pick the stuff up or we are bigger litter bugs than most places. Litter absolutely pisses me off.