In addition to being an extraordinary picker – and the latest cover star of Relix – Billy Strings is quite an angler as well, often posting pictures of his fishy exploits offstage.
Today, to celebrate Earth Day, the Grammy-winner shared a lengthy statement about protecting our shared waters, and being respectful of their inhabitants.
“At the end of a day on the water, I usually end up with at least a small pile of other peoples trash, fishing line and old lures. I’m out there a lot and I always see a lot of trash along the banks and in the water and I always pick up what I can. I hate to see the negligence from fellow anglers,” he writes, adding that he’s seen animals suffer when they’ve been tangled up in trash and old fishing line.
“So make sure you take care of your old line, lures and trash when you’re out fishin.. and if you see someone else’s shit, pick it up and throw it away at the ramp or something,” he concludes. “I may hook these bastards in the lip but I love them and care about them a lot.. as well as all their other little critter friends.”
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Dan
April 22, 2021 at 10:37 pmJIMP is just mad cause his mom eats canned dog food … Billy strings watches them die and laughs like a maniac
Dan
April 22, 2021 at 9:32 pmHe loves them but kills them thrdsmny
JimK
April 22, 2021 at 10:27 pmYes, it’s usually a good idea to kill them before you eat them.
Dan
April 22, 2021 at 11:00 pmRemember when you drank my pee?
Sideshow Bob
April 22, 2021 at 2:05 pmI’m not much of a fisherman but most any time I am invited on a fishing outing, whether it be bass/striper fishing on Long Is Sound, flounder fishing in Jersey bays, surf fishing, or just plain ol’ trout fishing on a local brook, the most detrimental thing I observe the most is that pretty much all the anglers who bring me along are cigarette smokers & they all are pretty casual about flicking their butts into the water / onto the beach / along the creek banks. Now if they’re hand rolled or American Spirits or some other kind of “natural” brand it doesn’t bother me, but the evil factory manufactured plastic butts last 10’s of thousands of years & are chock full of toxic chemicals & are very often mistaken as food by all kinds of aquatic creatures from fish to birds to mammals, who then die a horrific death by starvation or toxic accumulation. Anything I say is always brushed aside “oh it’s just a few butts”, but yeah, so do thousands of others every day every where. Ugh! Just because of this I often turn down fishing invites from smokers, It’s Ironic that many espouse Environmental attitudes otherwise, except when it comes to this particular personal behavior, it’s somehow conveniently excused.
Fred
April 22, 2021 at 4:38 pm‘The World is Not Your Ashtray’ is my favorite bumper sticker ever.