so how do you know if it is a drinking water reservoir? someone mentioned joe pool. i have heard it is a drinking reservoir for midlothian. safe then? i really don't mind catch and release, just if i go on a camping trip and we want to catch fish and eat our catch, i just want to know what bodies of water around the metroplex are actually safe. anything that the trinity flows in, especially south of dallas, i would never want to keep my catch from...then again that includes joe pool so not really sure i understand it. trinity is a disgusting river so not sure how it is *cleaned up* by the time it dumps into joe pool.

and put and take stockings are safe in any body of water? i know a few community ponds that get hit with the stocked trout every year. they are kind of in the middle of the city and i'm not sure i would normally eat anything i caught out of there, but as long as the short time they spend in the water doesn't contaminate them...

someone mentioned white rock...last time i fished there was earlier this spring and i actually saw a hypodermic needle at one dock floating in the water, and a crack pipe at another. you couldn't pay me to eat anything out of there.

The Trinity doesn't flow into Joe Pool.

If you're worried about which fish to eat or not eat, these two links are a good place to start:

TPWD Fish Consumption Bans and Advisories
TDHS Bans and Advisories

thanks, and i have seen those. but joe pool is part of the trinity river basin, which would mean ultimately the trinity river runs into it, right? also, mountain creek lake is like 10 miles north of joe pool, certainly with some of it's waters being connected to joe pool, and there is an advisory not to eat your catch at mountain creek but not joe pool.

You have it backwards.

Water flows from Joe Pool to Mountain Creek and then into the Trinity river, not the other way around.

Mountain Creek has an advisory because of pollution from the old Dallas NAS on the north west end. That's where the polluted water is added. None of that pollution came from Pool.

yes a lot but not all. Just buy anything that is "wild Caught"

You mean like Lake Worth? Just because it is a drinking water reservoir doesn't mean it is safe. Just check the the fish consumption advisories.

A lot of tilapia comes from Vietnam and is raised in the resting ponds for sewers. I do not eat store bought tilapia ever. They serve duel purpose, they eat their shite and feed us Americans. Wonder if they laugh about that?