Don't Eat fish from Pinto Lake

Just saw this in the paper today.

Anyone fish Pinto Lake?

WATSONVILLE -- More than three decades after the ban of the pesticide DDT, the contaminant has been found in some Pinto Lake fish at levels high enough for city officials to warn anglers not to eat their catch. The chemical, widely used on crops and in backyards in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, was discovered in Pinto Lake carp during a landmark study of California's lakes.


Just a heads up.

Stoggie

But if you do, you won't need to apply any bug repellent. 

I live in Watsonville and fish Pinto sometimes.I don't eat fish I catch there and don't eat carp either.The planter trout the DFG put in Pinto are harvested in the first few days or die off at the end of the season anyway.Pinto is close to a lot of ag use areas and is bordered by private residences that may leach waste into the tiny lake as well.

Yeah, I was a bit mioffed they did not mention the trout are palnteras and safe to eat (and the only fish we would eat out of there anyway, most likely)

I might write a letter to the editor....These young writers (I assume) always looking for the controversy seem to accentuate the negative.

Not like my weekly fish report, I'll be positive even if I have to lie my A** off!

(nonot really)

Allen