Oh yeah, went tonight again, at a small little lake also part of the Holly Lake Ranch development here. Did pretty good. I also fished the spinning rod too, since I really wanted to fish an old topwater plug that I inherited from my wife's grandfather. Its an old topwater with a prop on the back, I think its called a cisco kid... Caught 2 bass on it, including a nice 3# bass.
Also fly fished some and caught a few nice bream and a few small bass.

LSS provided a paycheck for thousands of people in that area for over fifty years.

I would be willing to bet that the people in that region would gladly put up with some more pollution to have the opportunity for jobs the quality of which LSS provided. That area has been in a semi depression ever since LSS practically shut down twenty years ago.

I am not excusing the PCB's or any other type of pollution but there are two sides to every story.

PCB's and any other type of pollution hurt the environment, people were not aware of that years ago when the vast majority of the damage was done.

I am not excusing the PCB's or any other type of pollution but there are two sides to every story.

PCB's and any other type of pollution hurt the environment, people were not aware of that years ago when the vast majority of the damage was done.

Global warming, nuclear waste, fossil fuels running out, islands of trash in the oceans and enough plastic to circle the globe several times.. I think it's time to look seriously at wind, water and the sun to power this world before we completely destroy it with fossil fuels...

Robin, that article does bring a glimmer of hope. Thanks for sharing it.

As far as there being two sides to a story, of course there usually is. Remember the big ecology craze in the 60's? If not for the mass changes done at that time, our waters would not be fishable at all today. Yes some laws didn't pass until the 70's...but it started I think in the 60's. People used to throw their trash out of cars like they thought it magically disappeared or something. Somebody has to clean up all that mess. The air and water pollution was mind boggling. People knew back then that it was harmful to us in the long run. Remember Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring? She had that book out about the time I was born. A couple of chemical companies really hated her message so much that they tried to make her look like a batty old coot.

As far as our water now, I do not have a lot of faith that it is as wholesome as it should be, lets leave it at that. People are polluting our sea water every day. They dump tons of trash in it, and even barrels of nuclear waste used to go in it, I wouldn't be surprised if they still did it. Man knows the right thing to do, in most cases, he just chooses to ignore it, especially if money is involved.

I hope they get the mercury and pcb problems fixed in our lakes...our kids need to have a great place to fish, and not be afraid to eat the fish they catch!