Entreating Trash Tidying Techniques

[Bubblesong]

i have been inspired by Fellow Scuba boarders to do more than just enjoy my Saturday paddling around, I am going to pick up some trash, that I know will be there, wherever I Dive.
So what should I bring? I already wear 7mil lobster gloves, but what is a recommended type of mesh bag? I’m guessing the drawstring mesh bag I use for laundry is going to be impossible with 7mil gloves. So what brand/features in a mesh bag make this new task something easy and painless?
Thanks for advice!

 

[Kharon]

I've used mesh bags with a draw string but ones with metal handles are fare easier. Something like this comes in various sizes:

Blue Reef Mesh Bug Bag with D-Ring

 

[Bubblesong]

I've used mesh bags with a draw string but ones with metal handles are fare easier. Something like this comes in various sizes:

Blue Reef Mesh Bug Bag with D-Ring

The held-open-with-a-frame is exactly what I was searching for, so the ocean current or surge doesn’t keep closing the bag off thereby making flexible plastic trash harder to encapsulate.
I’m still wondering how people grab and capture fishing line?
Would a roller brush work to just spin up the plastic line like a mess of cotton candy?

 

[Kharon]

I’m still wondering how people grab and capture fishing line?
Would a roller brush work to just spin up the plastic line like a mess of cotton candy?

I just spread my fingers slightly and wrap it around them. When it's all wrapped I squeeze my fingers together, slide the coil off, and put it in the bag. It's sometimes a bit of a mess coming out of the bag, but since I'm just dumping it in my garbage can it really doesn't matter much.

If you wanted to make it neat you could carry a small container (small can with lid and a couple of holes drilled) or some twist ties. I guess you could carry something to wrap it around but my fingers are always there and I'm used to doing that when I get a snarl while fishing. I wrap the same way and just stuff it in my back pocket.

 

[Bubblesong]

I just spread my fingers slightly and wrap it around them. When it's all wrapped I squeeze my fingers together, slide the coil off, and put it in the bag. It's sometimes a bit of a mess coming out of the bag, but since I'm just dumping it in my garbage can it really doesn't matter much.

If you wanted to make it neat you could carry a small container (small can with lid and a couple of holes drilled) or some twist ties. I guess you could carry something to wrap it around but my fingers are always there and I'm used to doing that when I get a snarl while fishing. I wrap the same way and just stuff it in my back pocket.

Because I Dive with 7 mil three finger mits, aka lobster gloves, i really don’t want to get anything wrapped around, possibly trapping them with an unseen fishhook. It would be aweful to have to take them off in cold water. But you have given me another idea, of sticking a hole in a can and using it to encapsulate the bristles of the hair brush. The brush handle has a hole that I can attach to a Scuba lanyard I already have so I can keep it out of way when not in use.
I’ll start with that dive mesh bag first, since i see more of that trash up here, the fishing line seems more common near piers.

 

[Bob DBF]

I use 5mm gloves and usually a yellow game bag shown on @Kharon post, it seems whenever I carry the smaller red bag I find more junk than it will hold. If you take bottom of the bag and stuff it in the top, close and latch it, it will make a tidy package until you need it.

I just wad up the fishing line in my hand and stuff it in the bag. It's a mess to take out, especially with a lot of hooks, but with the gloves off it isn't too bad.


Bob

 

[TMHeimer]

I've collected a number of lures over the years and try to put them in a spot in my mesh bag where the hooks won't screw up the mesh bag. This approach doesn't work...I guess you could bring something like a plastic box to put hooks in first, if you're not lazy like me. Don't think I've ever found a lure in Nova Scotia. Only garbage I've ever really seen was around Halifax Harbour sites and not much there.

 

[Bob DBF]

I've collected a number of lures over the years and try to put them in a spot in my mesh bag where the hooks won't screw up the mesh bag.

I look at the bag as a consumable, I repair them fo a while, then buy or find another. I've gone through three or four over the decades, hooks are the worst. One time I found thirty or more trolling setups, a couple of downrigger balls, and a lot of cable on a rock peak where the bottom of the lake came up fast. Gave my father in law a dozen good rigs and a lot of parts that day, along with where not to troll, but it took years off the life of the game bag getting the hooks out.


Bob

 

[Kharon]

Oh, forgot about hooks. I put a big cork in the bag. Stick the hook point deeply and no problem.

 

[Bubblesong]

Oh, forgot about hooks. I put a big cork in the bag. Stick the hook point deeply and no problem.

I shall have to purchase a better class of wine in order to actually have a cork, but I am willing ante up!