Measuring rocks on the Musconetcong river:

[AndyS]

The technique involves taking a rock and figuring out the smallest hole it fits through. Then you yell out the measurement to the recorder. The water was cool and our volunteers are always happy to be up to their knees in the river. What else do you see in this photo on the Musconetcong river ?

[dfish28]

The obvious would be the two hidden beavers... Jk and edit if need be...

I see another thing as well - is that a r16-22.5 tire or just a weird reflection like you get in the raritan?

[bigfishy]

I see a perfectly good piece of foreign debris, that most likely houses thousands if not millions of insects and inverdibrits

Other than its unusually simetrical shape that's not often found in nature, it looks good to me

[AndyS]

Tires in the rivers are bad. Have we become so accustomed to them now we just think of them as part of the scenery ? Find it odd, they are all coming out, slowly.

[bigfishy]

Just curious Andy.....Other than them being an eye sore, whats so bad about them??? They don't break down and deteriate like metal for instance....

Not trying to down play your efforts....I think all of the cleanup is a Gr8 thing and I thank you and the many others that put so much time and effort into cleaning up our rivers....I'm just not sure why tires specifically are so bad??

I've caught just as many 4-5lb fish off of tires as I have off of laydowns and boulders, but maybe that's just because there are soooo many tires....

[AndyS]

Fish have had no problem surviving before we started throwing tires in the water. The tires leech bad chemicals into the water, they are petroleum based. Not only are we taking out the tires but a lot of metal and plastic also.

[buckfin732]

Didn't they build reef sites out of tires in the ocean. I am pretty sure they did. I is common practice in pa ponds to chain a bunch together and make structure out of them. Good job on the cleanup a lot of people are pigs the way they dump garbage in our oceans and rivers.

[bigfishy]

Well aware of the petroleum base , just not so sure of the leeching problem that you mention.....Gr8 job on todays catch Andy....Like i said , i'm not knockin it, what you do is gr8 x 10....but other than an eyesore i'm not so sure they are an enviromental issue...

Then again if a bunch a tires are chillin together in da river , it may attract more mischevious tires that want to join the party....Ty for the feedback

[jimcnj]

I'm guessing that tires probably contain some heavy metals like most heavy industry items.

[bigfishy]

Originally Posted by jimcnj

I'm guessing that tires probably contain some heavy metals like most heavy industry items.

Good point!! did'nt think about that....Steel belted tires are EVERYWHERE...
I do miss a few of my goodyear honey holes