texasfishingforum.com logo
Main Menu
Advertisement
Affiliates
Advertisement
Newest Members
TraeMartin, Power-Pole CS, T-Rigger, JoeGoes, EcKo
119150 Registered Users
Top Posters(All Time)
hopalong 120,575
TexDawg 119,517
Bigbob_FTW 94,886
John175☮ 85,892
Pilothawk 83,260
Bob Davis 81,480
Mark Perry 72,287
Derek 🐝 68,312
JDavis7873 67,416
Forum Statistics
Forums59
Topics1,037,826
Posts13,935,180
Members144,150
Most Online39,925
Dec 30th, 2023
Print Thread
Page 1 of 2 1 2
Lake Lewisville #12167531 03/31/17 06:41 PM
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 81
M
mikevining Offline OP
Outdoorsman
OP Offline
Outdoorsman
M
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 81
I have a friend who is new to the area from Minnesota. He is thinking of getting a boat slip on Lewisville at Cottonwood Creek Marina for his pontoon boat. He likes to fish for crappie, catfish, etc. He has heard that it is not recommended eating fish out of Lewisville due to toxins in the water. I have never heard that and would have no problem consuming fish out of Lewisville....anyone have any input on eating fish from Lewisville? Also any feedback on Cottonwood Creek would be much appreciated in case he does decide to get a slip there.

Thanks.

Re: Lake Lewisville [Re: mikevining] #12167537 03/31/17 06:44 PM
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 27,532
Uncle Zeek Offline
aka "Dad"
Offline
aka "Dad"
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 27,532
Have been eating fish from that lake since 1994. Hazn't affliectd mu menztalsty or fffhysicalty zo farc.







grin


No, seriously, it's cool. I suppose if you ate fish from the lake several days a week every week, you might accumulate some toxins or such in you.


"Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries --but it is a force stronger than crime" ~ Robert A. Heinlein
Artim Law Firm, PLLC
Estate planning & tax attorney
2250 Morriss Road, Suite 205, Flower Mound, Texas 75028
972-746-0758 mobile
zac@artimlegal.com
Re: Lake Lewisville [Re: mikevining] #12167554 03/31/17 06:51 PM
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 5,712
Mark C Online Content
TFF Celebrity
Online Content
TFF Celebrity
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 5,712
That's BS. No consumption advisories at all for Lewisville lake. Never has been in the 32 years I've been fishing it.

http://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoo...-and-advisories


Originally Posted by TexasBlonde
You are not a good or nice person.





Re: Lake Lewisville [Re: mikevining] #12167823 03/31/17 10:07 PM
Joined: Mar 2017
Posts: 262
B
Buckshotbuddy Offline
Angler
Offline
Angler
B
Joined: Mar 2017
Posts: 262
I'm eating catfish and crappie from there for dinner tonight! I've never had any problems with the fish from there

Re: Lake Lewisville [Re: Uncle Zeek] #12168358 04/01/17 10:18 AM
Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 19
W
WildBill0215 Offline
Green Horn
Offline
Green Horn
W
Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 19
Now that's funny right there, I don't care who ya are!

Originally Posted By: Uncle Zeek
Have been eating fish from that lake since 1994. Hazn't affliectd mu menztalsty or fffhysicalty zo farc.

grin


No, seriously, it's cool. I suppose if you ate fish from the lake several days a week every week, you might accumulate some toxins or such in you.

Re: Lake Lewisville [Re: mikevining] #12168572 04/01/17 02:31 PM
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 3,462
P
PKfishin Offline
TFF Team Angler
Offline
TFF Team Angler
P
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 3,462
TPWD has advisories on its website. Lewisville is not on that list. That said, the sewage from Denton is pumped into that lake.


John 21:3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee.
Re: Lake Lewisville [Re: PKfishin] #12168591 04/01/17 02:46 PM
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 5,712
Mark C Online Content
TFF Celebrity
Online Content
TFF Celebrity
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 5,712
Originally Posted By: PKfishin
TPWD has advisories on its website. Lewisville is not on that list. That said, the sewage from Denton is pumped into that lake.


It's not sewage - gross. It's treated wastewater that's actually cleaner than what comes in through the Trinity.


Originally Posted by TexasBlonde
You are not a good or nice person.





Re: Lake Lewisville [Re: mikevining] #12169236 04/02/17 02:17 AM
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 9,490
T
TR176 Online Content
TFF Celebrity
Online Content
TFF Celebrity
T
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 9,490
Cottonwood is a nice marina it appears to be fairly full but they are adding new slips that look nearly finished. It doesn't have a ramp but is convenient to Little Elm park. They have a trailer storage area. The only draw back I see is that in the future the parking will be scarce as the marina grows. People park all over the place now. However there is plenty of parking by the ball fields with an ok walk after you drop off your stuff. Short boat ride to the main lake.

Re: Lake Lewisville [Re: mikevining] #12183941 04/05/17 12:43 PM
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 10,699
F
Fishin' Nut Online Content
TFF Guru
Online Content
TFF Guru
F
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 10,699
I fished that marina for years, as a guest. He doesn't need a boat if he wants to catch crappie. If he rents a slip, management will allow him to brush it out. I ate fish from that lake for over 10 years, all species except gar.


Originally Posted by OTFF
He is truly a sick individual.
Re: Lake Lewisville [Re: mikevining] #12184055 04/05/17 01:40 PM
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 517
O
ou.sooner Offline
Pro Angler
Offline
Pro Angler
O
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 517
I have a pontoon at Cottonwood Creek. Really nice marina and staff. They keep the place up and have excellent communication with the members.

Fishing is pretty good in the marina. Just like any other place, sometimes great and sometimes not so great.

I've talked to a couple of people trying to pick out slips near mine and they said the selection was very limited right now. As previously mentioned the marina is expanding so now would be the time to call and find out.

Re: Lake Lewisville [Re: mikevining] #12193439 04/11/17 02:56 PM
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 39,259
Dan90210 ☮ Offline
Jr Deputy Dan
Offline
Jr Deputy Dan
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 39,259
The fish from Lewisville are very safe to eat.

Eat them all the time no issues. Never been on any list.

Dont believe everything you hear.

Re: Lake Lewisville [Re: Dan90210 ☮] #12193604 04/11/17 03:52 PM
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 81
M
mikevining Offline OP
Outdoorsman
OP Offline
Outdoorsman
M
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 81
Thanks for all the replies.

Re: Lake Lewisville [Re: mikevining] #12195954 04/12/17 06:32 PM
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,176
T
Tony from Oak Point Offline
Extreme Angler
Offline
Extreme Angler
T
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,176
I eat fish out of Lewisville. However I might have some reservations eating fish out of some of the creeks that get millions of gallons of treated waste water each day that flow into Lewisville. http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/2003-10-08-HoustonChronicle-antidepressant-traces-in-creek.htm

Re: Lake Lewisville [Re: Mark C] #12196181 04/12/17 08:52 PM
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 3,462
P
PKfishin Offline
TFF Team Angler
Offline
TFF Team Angler
P
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 3,462
Mark: Treated waste water was what was coming down Rowlett creek when I lived at Breckenridge park in Richardson. However, after any big rain, basically anything people normally flush down the toilet ( stuff my Civil Engineer neighbor who works in this field calls "floaties") was all over the bank. I would not even walk my dog along that creek. Very nasty stuff.

It's only a very short drive up to Ray Roberts and you won't have that problem.


John 21:3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee.
Re: Lake Lewisville [Re: mikevining] #12197044 04/13/17 11:41 AM
Joined: Jun 2014
Posts: 557
L
Lloyd5 Offline
Pro Angler
Offline
Pro Angler
L
Joined: Jun 2014
Posts: 557
I've built and modified well over a dozen waste water treatment plants.

Most of the time they discharge clean water. It will have been filtered of solids (like condoms and tampons), aerobically or anaerobically "composted" while in liquid form, run through a settling basin to get the "sludge" out of it, then chemically treated, usually with chlorine and ammonia, to kill the micro organisms still residing in the water. It will not have been treated to remove residual drugs (like birth control hormones or anti-depressants) or heavy metals, or random chemicals.

Most of the time the discharge is clean of biological presences.

All sewage plants are at the downhill end of the city they serve, sewage arrives via the power of gravity. During heavy rains they can and often do overflow - and when they overflow they pour raw untreated sewage out the discharge pipe. This is a periodic event, that's true, but it is not pleasant to be downstream of a sewage plant when it overflows.

I personally, knowing what I know and having seen what I have seen, would never choose to live downstream from a sewage plant, not ever. Not if I had any other choice. I would not eat fish from a lake that has sewage plant discharge - there's probably an extremely small chance of those fish making you ill - but I would not do it myself.


Last edited by Lloyd5; 04/13/17 11:45 AM.

Texas State Editor: FishExplorer http://www.fishexplorer.com/tx

http://www.amazon.com/River-Proceeds-Wou...ds=on+the+river

Warm Water Fly Fishing Nut
Page 1 of 2 1 2
Previous Thread
Index
Next Thread

© 1998-2022 OUTDOOR SITES NETWORK all rights reserved USA and Worldwide
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.3