Ok... here's the story.

Some members of the Yuma Bass Man - forums were crying and carrying on about
people who trash our outdoors. One member who goes by the name Joe Cool
said if I would organize a trash pickup tournament he would put up $100 for
first place. He even sent me an MO before we had finalized to do it. The
Security Consultant (my company) put up another $100 and a friend of mine
Gary Summer, put up $50 more.

We picked a section of the Colorado River here by Yuma, Az and announced we
were going to have a tournament.

Entry Fee - 1 large bag of trash or equivalent picked up along the river.

3 fish limit. Best Bag $100
Big Bass. $75
Most Trash Picked up $75

The boat in the picture is my backup and shallow water boat affectionately
dubbed "The Tin Can." Joey, aka WABassFisher is the guy in the boat holding
up our two biggest bass for the day. There were about 20 people came out to
help pickup trash, and 6 boats on the river. We didn't do anything to
promote it or publicize it. It just sort of happened.

Bill aka sarcdoc brought hotdogs and a grill and Scott from Coca Cola
brought sodas and water so we could have a hot lunch and beverages
afterwards.

1st place for most trash picked up went to Alvin Hattons two girls. None of
that crew fished, but several anglers commented on seeing those two girls
scrambling over the rocks and through the brush picking up every bit of
trash in the area they chose to police. Joey and I won the fishing and big
fish, but only because another angler had a technical difficulty.

Arizona Game & Fish were proactive about supporting us, and we didn't even
ask. Pat Barber the local region supervisor contacted me saying they wanted
to support us, and Mike Sumner (a local enforcement officer) made sure the
local county waste transfer site was prepared for anything we brought in and
didn't charge us for tire disposal fees and stuff like that. He was also
there to help load the last bit of trash from the boats to the trucks.

I have not decided if I want to do it again. It was a lot of work and
planning, but like our forum fun tournament in the spring it will really
depend on if enough people want to do it. I suppose since the first one
went well we are kind of obligated to try and expand it if we do it again
next fall.