I was on Lake Arlington yesterday and it is appalling the amount of floating garbage on that lake. I have never seen that much [censored] even when a lake has come up 10 feet in depth. My home lake is Lewisville and it's nice and clean compared to that toilet.

I jumped in to say Arlington too, it's disgusting.

Couldn't agree more... its the only lake around that you can get on a dirty diaper pattern, or the famous flip flop pattern.

Yep while fishing the west bank you flip to garbage for cover.

Marine creek isn't much better

Actually the west side of Lake Arlington is a former trash dump in the back of the cove going into the discharge

And the west end up above Village Creek is a constant illegal dump

I'd have to follow those up with upper Lake Worth,

And anywhere there is bank fishing access

Lake Ray Hubbard and Rowlett Creek are the same way!!!!

Lake Eufaula

White Rock lake.

I was going to say white rock lake after all the families have had there pick nick in the park and left all the party decorations everywhere.

Lake Casa Blanca is a trash can. I actually watched a family finish their picnic and dump all their trash into the lake before they left.

I grew up fishing village creek. For a few years there were sewer manholes overflowing into the creek and into the lake. I think that's fixed now. But the landfill was put on the creek after that. Id say Arlington lake is pretty disgusting. Hope the city of Arlingtons not drinking that water

that's why I stick to beer.

They do use that water to treat and then drink.

Lake Houston. Swam there back in the 80's. Nasty, nasty, nasty.

Lake Houston. Went there a month ago to try my hand with catfish. Nasty but faint smell on the bank. Trash ring around 15ft of the windblown banks. Caught 13 fish(12 channels, 1 yellow) and didn't keep a single one. Never seen as ugly fish as I caught that day. Not to mention I could only fish within eyesight of my truck because of some shady hand liners. Never had such a terrible experience catching fish.

Lake Houston is a cesspool.

Agree that Arlington is pathetic above water level. However, Twok might take the prize for trash underwater. Only place I've caught a lawn chair and a broken shovel in the same day.

Amen to that. Never swim barefoot in Tawakoni. You're liable to slice your foot open or get jabbed with a hypo.

It's sad of all the garbage everywhere . It doesn't grow on trees .

Arlington is by far the worse!

Sorry to admit but I saw a whole Toilet once in Lake Lewisville during a drought year.

Not lakes, but I know what yall feel:

Buffalo Run Park Ponds in Missouri City:
Lots of trash within the forested areas of the bank. I would see cat-size rats go through it in the evenings.

Buffalo Bayou at Bush Park (though its gotten much better now):
Trash along the banks. I would run into a patch of dead shad on the banks (unforgiving stench) from someone using a castnet. The least they could do with the unused shad is throw it into the bayou so the gars can feast on it.

Calaveras

Ray Hubbard is a dump!!

Grapevine is not a whole lot better than those mentioned above.

Good Luck and Tight Lines.

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