sheboygan river, Sheboygan County (all postings)

that is some great advice you gave your son Mr. Van akkeren. Ask Jordan to tell his buddies to start practicing catch and release and someday he will get that 20+" wallhanger he's trying for. Good Luck Jordan.

@ fishing 3431, You are welcome, good sir. I did serve my country in the Corps.

This kid got a lot of flak on this site, and I gladly stood up for him, and would do so for any others that might be like him.

As for the Marine Corps hat, it is just an easy way to ID me out in the field.

This is Jordans dad. He brought home one smallmouth 3 years ago and since then hasn't brought home any. I told him unless its a wall hanger I don't want it and I'm the one who would be cooking it for him. I explained the pcbs to him and he said ok. He calls me everytime and asks if the big one he caught can get mounted. If you look at the picture of the 6 fish Jordan isn't in it.

So the river before “Herb’s” playground is bad, and the river after his playground is bad, but his playground (middle river) is ok. And yes I have seen the test results and the EPA reports, and I am sure Kohler did a better job keeping track of their contaminations in the river then most places. But I also don’t believe everything I read, sure sounds like some backroom deals were made. This is my last post about this; I’m going to the hunting forums and focus on controlling the gene pool better and encourage the kids to start eating more coyote steaks.

jig ill take your word for it sounds like you might be a closet water tester and all around expert i havent had any FACTS WRONG? FIND ONE? also i have a squeak coming from the right side of my truck can you tell me what that is? was also wondering where babies come from?

Fished the past two days and fishing is starting to heat up. Fished lots of different spots and some produced more than others. Anyway, got about 30-35 smallies in two days with none getting over the 16" mark. Spinners and small cranks are great right now. Carp are thick and a blast to catch as well.

i'm fishing all over everything downstream from I-43 to around 14th street. I usually try about 5or 6 areas and get 2-3 fish if i'm lucky. when i find the hot spot i'll let you guys know

I use to work there. You would not believe what goes down the storm drains into the river.That river will never be clean. If DNR says its clean,thats a lie and a coverup !!!!

Where are the smallies being caught?

i did catch one smallie

here are some lovely pics i took today downstream from taylor drive directly across the road from carquest. realy makes you wonder sometimes. If you ever want to see some more groovy colored liquids oozing into the river, take a hike behind herbies landfill.

enough said on the toxicity of the river

however i have a message for the guy who left his beer cans laying on the river bank. either leave them all laying there( i saw one of them floating in the river) and i will pick up after your littering A$$ or better yet take them home with you or put them in a trash can. this was just off the nemschoff parking lot and there are trash cans within 50 yards of where you left them

two smallies on an otherwise beautiful spring day

fishing3431 and longeye,

Explicit words don't have to be stated to express that some of these guys are picking on the kid. It is common sense by the tone of the messages. They are pretty much indirectly putting this kid down. I bet this kid just started fishing a year or two ago and the guys making some of these comments have been fishing all their lives... I think much better manners ought to be followed by the more seasoned anglers.

100% agree, that those fish are dirty. I fly fish and release pretty much all my fish. I wouldn't eat any fish from Lake Michigan or it's tributaries because of the chemicals. Even if they say it is clean, I would not believe it. But we can more mature about it, rather than throwing a bunch of emoticons. Encouraging education is required. Not discouragement.

Anyways, Jordan, I do not recommend eating all those fish because of the chemicals. I agree with what the guys said about the fish being toxic. It does not take much for you to get sick from those chemicals.

I fish the sheboyagn river over 100 days a year and drive by kiwanis and new jersey almost every day. not only did they not clean up Herbies river, nothing downsteam was touched until they started at 14th street 2 years ago. if you saw the project that was going on at the old kiwanis boat launch last year, that stirred up all kinds of sediment. we couldn't fish downstream from there because the water was clouded with contaminated sediment. there are areas of the river near nemschoff where the muck is 2 feet deep and when you stir it up it stinks to all hell.Or low lying areas that used to be under water year round that are now dry land, thats all contaminated as well and will eventually work its way back into the river. Is the river cleaner today than it was a couple of years ago. probably. Is it ever going to be contaminant free. No, not in our lifetimes. Don't always believe what the higher ups tell you.they'll sell you bag of crap and tell you it's a sack of gold every chance they get. The river is what it is now and we have to live with that. As far as eating fish from there, I wouldn't recommend it until several years of intense sampling are done. I'm going to stick to healthier food like double bacon cheeseburgers and deep fried perch dinners. NOW THATS GOOD EATIN'

longeye, the river not being dredged through kohler had nothing to do with kohler/river wildlife. if you don't want to take my word for it, and i do make sure i have my facts straight before posting on a public site, you must be wondering why they stopped dredging so far short of kohler. you went on to discuss the idea that the dredging did no good because they didn't dredge up through kohler. again, you are wrong, as the water tests have shown immediate improvements, and are expected to continue to do so. my point is simple, you want to get on a public site to rip a KID for being ignorant and keeping fish that probably aren't fit for the table, but at the same time you make ignorant posts as an ADULT. i'm not sure what that says about the gene pool you refer to.