The future of our reservoirs.

[Catt]

1 hour ago, .ghoti. said:

Let's keep the politics out of this, folks.

 

Which is why I can not properly answer

[MassYak85]

I think regardless of what any of us think is the current trend in the state of our waters, we can all do a part to improve them. Like Tom said with drawdowns, they are a great opportunity and if your local water has them it's a great chance to just pick a stretch of shoreline, take a trashbag and spend a couple hours cleaning it up. Even when we are out fishing it's pretty easy to scoop up a bottle as it floats by, or pull that line out of the tree we're standing next to on the shore. 

[Bucky205]

New Alabama advisory.  It's shellfish and naturally occurring, but still concerning.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/10/health/alabama-vibriosis-bacteria-coastal-waters/index.html

[d-camarena]

Mr. .ghoti. coming in with clutch

This thread has some good reading. Im not taking sides but if i had to it would be a tough one

[fishballer06]

I almost always go out of my way to pick up trash that I see floating in the water whenever I'm out on a boat. Trash bags, pool noodles, buckets, drums... The list goes on and on with the amount of things I've pulled from the lake.

[Doelman]

The worst thing we can do is politicize keeping our waters clean. I think we're all on the same side here in wanting to have healthy fish to eat, clean water to swim in, and garbage free waters to enjoy. Here in Alabama the health department issues fish consumption warnings every year, there are literally hundreds of waterways in this state with some kind of fish consumption warning, there are several that tell you not to eat ANY kind of fish at all.  That's just absurd, we should never consider this acceptable, and it's all because corporations and individuals want to make greater and greater profits at the expense of out waterways.

http://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/tox/assets/2017-al-fish-consumption-advisory-final-july-6-2017.pdf

 You don't realize how dirty and polluted our waters are until you spend some time in virtually untouched waters of the world.

 

As an aside, I have no idea how good the fish was off Venice before, but I had a trip down there this year and the fishing was excellent.  I strongly suggest anyone that wants to experience world class blue water fishing to book a trip down there.  The river itself was absolutely nasty though, so much trash.