Keep Fish From Springfield Lake?

[plunkie]

Does anyone keep the fish out of springfield lake? I've heard bad things but if someone is for sure that it is fine, then I'd like to check it out more. I like to keep the fish I catch if it's good eats.

[usmcgrunt]

Yeah I keep them and I haven't grown any extra body parts or gotten sick from them. In other parts of the country the lakes that have power plants near them are tested more often and watched more carefully for dangerous chemicals than other lakes, so I'd assume that's what happens with Springfield Lake. At least that's what I tell myself...

[Hunter91]

I have kept them in the past after I had asked the MDC if it was safe to do so.

[Outside Bend]

http://gis.dhss.mo.gov/Website/FishAdvisory/FishAdvisory.html#app=414&bda9-selectedIndex=1

That link should take you to a map of the state showing the different fish advisories by water body.

[river angler man]

I keep them even though I think it's a bad idea because of how smelly and nasty the lake is, I'm not sure how that may affect the fish so I just pretend it's all good. I do cook the crap out of anything I catch though