Keep Fish From Table Rock?

[Feathers and Fins]

Does anyone know the last time the lake was tested for contaminents?

Is this an issue with the overall lake or just age class fish?

[Jeff Olson]

thanks for the posts and info guys! I was not aware of this at all.Im new to the area.I never keep bass to eat,but I have been taking our friends 10 yr old boy fishing lately and he has caught some undersize bass, so he has really wanted to catch a legal bass so he could keep it to show his mom,well I took him out on table rock today and he caught a 15 in white and a 17 in lrg mouth that we had to keep!we took pictures and I cleaned them up for them to eat.so the timeing on this article is a blessing,I will tell his mother and also explain this to him. ( a good reason not to keep any bass anymore) I assume and hope that crappie , bluegill and walleye are ok to eat out of t rock ?

[Stoneroller]

it's an issue with ALL surface water in the USA especially around here. These toxins all bioaccumulate and are extremely persistant. So the higher up the food chain you go, the higher concentration of toxins and they last a really, really long time. Put that in perspective? Nobody who is alive today will be alive when the water is only half as toxic as it is now. And that's only if we stopped polluting right now.

The advisories pertain to all fish, regardless of species as the toxins exist throughout the food chain. Although you might not get as much by eating bluegill, how 'little' of an amount of any toxin would you like to consume, hidden in fish or not? Any fish that eats another fish is going to be really high in toxins as are fish that live a long time. Bluegill are probably the 'safest' fish to eat, short lived and eat mostly plankton and small insects, but it comes down to how many bullets you want in the gun for a round of russian roulette.

[Stoneroller]

http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishshellfish/fishadvisories/index.cfm

note they aren't going to come right out and say 'don't eat the fish' as they don't want to deal with the panic and backlash that would happen. If they are saying something is bad in the fish, you better believe something is bad. If one kind of fish on a body of water has an advisory, assume they all are. Err on the side of caution. Look at what the EPA is saying about the fish in the Gulf, then look at the reality that anglers and commercial fishermen are seeing.

[fishinwrench]

Boy, this is really gonna hurt the stringer and fillet knife industry.

Fish fry's are now a thing of the past? Seriously? Noway!

[Craig]

This is the fish advisory for Missouri. It is mostly for Mississippi and the Missouri River. Nothing about Table Rock

http://health.mo.gov/living/environment/fishadvisory/pdf/12fishadvisory.pdf

This is the EPA web site posting for Fish filet testing. I believe the last tests where done in 2002 http://fishadvisoryonline.epa.gov/FishTissue.aspx?tabId=0

This is the water Quality Bulletin for Missouri. The main point I see is "All but 5 fish kill locations were in Greene County. Sewage discharge is the most common problem cited in the investigation of fish kills in this region."

http://mdc.mo.gov/landwater-care/stream-and-watershed-management/missouri-watersheds/james-river/water-quality

My point is do not believe all that you read on the web is accurate. To make my point I did a web search and an advanced search of the MDC web site for the phrase "Lab testing done by the Missouri food safety commission has found that black bass over 15" caught from Table Rock lake" found in one of the posts this phrase can not be found anywhere. Draw your own conclusions.

[eric1978]

Eh, people should be practicing C&R anyway. Unless you consume strictly organic food, those fish wouldn't be more of a concern to me than anything else we ingest on a daily basis...it's ALL pumped full of chemicals. All of it. A bass from TRL can't be any worse for you than a Big Mac, that's for sure.

[Quillback]

My post was done in jest, I would not recommend doing any searches on any of the phrases I used.

[powerdive]

My post was done in jest, I would not recommend doing any searches on any of the phrases I used.

I would not recommend keeping your post up, QB. Many folks don't read closely nor between the lines. It was funny, but a little too real for skimmers. As you can see.

[fishinwrench]

I would not recommend keeping your post up, QB. Many folks don't read closely nor between the lines. It was funny, but a little too real for skimmers. As you can see.

Dude, lighten up!