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Post by FishinCane on Dec 22, 2005 16:02:55 GMT -5
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Post by JoeOverlock on Dec 22, 2005 18:46:13 GMT -5
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Post by dragonma15 on Dec 23, 2005 7:56:42 GMT -5
You know, I don't think I could actually eat something like that. There are just too many "what ifs..." that go along with something like that.
But hey, to each their own.
Happy holidays everyone.
Gregg
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Post by Uplander on Dec 23, 2005 8:11:36 GMT -5
Looks like something pulled from Sherman Reservoir up at the old Rowe Yankee Atomic plant. When I was a kid we would catch some of the most disgusting fish imaginable out of the Hoosic River. Trout with weird colors, covered in weeping sores and nodules/tumors…..  |
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Post by jlibs on Dec 23, 2005 9:28:20 GMT -5
Gross!
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Post by JoeOverlock on Dec 23, 2005 12:39:46 GMT -5
Looks like something pulled from Sherman Reservoir up at the old Rowe Yankee Atomic plant. When I was a kid we would catch some of the most disgusting fish imaginable out of the Hoosic River. Trout with weird colors, covered in weeping sores and nodules/tumors….. But years later and thanks to the hard work of HooRWA and the EPA the Hoosic is now cleaner and has some of the best natural trout in the North East. There isn't to many places you can go in this county and catch wild brown trout. As for Sherman Reservoir, I caught a trout up there about 3-4 years ago that was just discusting. I didn't know what it was, the thing was darkly discolored with a "greenish" shade around it's gills. And in contrast, a few years ago, I landed the best looking trout of my life in the Hoosic. It was a Tiger Trout (not a stocked one) and probally about 14 inches long. It was "The Fish of a Lifetime". |
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Post by Uplander on Dec 23, 2005 13:38:46 GMT -5
But years later and thanks to the hard work of HooRWA and the EPA the Hoosic is now cleaner and has some of the best natural trout in the North East. I hear you Joe. Quite a turnaround from those days 25 or so years ago when my fishing chums and I would see florescent orange “goo” oozing up out of the riverbank, etc. Still, I cannot, no matter how hard I try, shake the doubts I have over whether or not the river is truly “clean.” Sure, the water is a lot better than it used to be, but I wonder how deep one would have to dig into the sediment on the river bottom, or even the surrounding riverbank/floodplain, to find disturbing evidence? One monster storm to stir up the silt and you're back at square one.... |
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Post by JoeOverlock on Dec 23, 2005 23:33:53 GMT -5
Oh, it's still PCB heaven. It's never been dredged. like the Housitonic. But the years of PCB pollution have kept it a pure catch and release stream with very little fishing pressure. But every now and then I see some moron take a fish out of there for the dinner table.
Last year when I saw a guy take one for the table I crossed the river to inform him about the pollution level of the stream and fish, and that it was unsafe to eat. I figured I'd give him the benefit of the doubt (maybe he wasn't from around here and just didn't know about the Hoosic).
He then proceeded to inform me about my lack of knowledge about PCB pollution and it's effects on the human body. And reassured me that it was 100% safe because he and his children have been eating trout out of the Hoosic for many years now.
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