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White Rock Creek - Thank You

Posted By: YetiDallas

White Rock Creek - Thank You - 10/26/17 12:43 PM

I'm a volunteer for the Texas Stream Team and I regularly take water samples along the upper portions of White Rock Creek. While I'm taking the samples I bring a garbage bag with me and try to fill it up with trash. Large amounts of trash are swept into the creek after a rainstorm and its usually not hard to fill the bag.

One of the items the volunteers have been asked to track is fishing line. On our monitoring form we have a little box to indicate about how much fishing line we found. Overall we have been finding less fishing line. On my last two monitoring visits I found zero fishing line, zero monofilament, zero fishing line of any kind. Thank you.

I love to fish myself and I've never understood why anyone wouldn't clean up after themselves. I'm a firm believer that the more fisherman we have the better. No one cares more about the quality of our local lakes and rivers than the people casting fishing lines into them.

Sincerely,

Ryan Morris, PE
Posted By: sae

Re: White Rock Creek - Thank You - 10/26/17 12:52 PM

Thank you for your service.
Posted By: Dan90210 ☮

Re: White Rock Creek - Thank You - 10/27/17 01:24 AM

Cool.

What do the water samples show? What's being tested for?

Never mind found the website. Interesting
Posted By: The_ProFISHional

Re: White Rock Creek - Thank You - 10/27/17 03:03 AM

Awesome!
Posted By: IIIMag

Re: White Rock Creek - Thank You - 10/29/17 07:40 PM

Good work. Thanks for your efforts.
Posted By: SourTemplePilot

Re: White Rock Creek - Thank You - 01/22/18 04:12 AM

I walk/wade the upper parts of the creek and bring a trash bag every time.

I run into other fishermen that surprisingly do the same.
I would encourage everyone to do this wherever you go. It's very much
appreciated.

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