"radioactive" fish of pompton lake - NJFishing.com Your Best Online Source for Fishing Information in New Jersey

JOHN D · #1 10-12-2011, 09:22 PM

my and my buddy have a crappie trip planned this late fall in pompton lake for one last time in my boat. we are both mostly catch and release guys but we both agree that it would be nice to take some fish home for dinner. the only thing is that for years ive been told that the fish in pompton lake are unsafe to eat because of the whole nuclear waste thing that happend years ago. just wondering if it is really true that you cant eat the fish pompton.

thanks,
john

catfishonthelake · #2 10-12-2011, 09:31 PM

I don't eat fish, so I don't care all too much, but I've never figured out the whole story on Pompton Lake. I've never heard about any radioactivity, but I know that DuPont is involvled in heft environmental clean-up around the area where the acid brook dumps into the lake. I think the water "upstream" from there should be fine, but you never know. I can tell you Chris_JC ate a bunch of fattie yellow perch we caught through the ice and he's still alive....I think. Chris?

catfishonthelake · #3 10-12-2011, 09:33 PM

BTW, if you do find out the fish are safe to eat, don't tell anyone. All the bad press about the lake seems to keep the fishing pressure down.

jmurr711 · #4 10-12-2011, 10:18 PM

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hac/pha/dup...on/eid_p1.html

johnnyc08 · #5 10-12-2011, 10:41 PM

hmmm, if its radioactive, does that mean my boats gonna glow in the dark after saturday? wont need lights then at night right? lol (well, maybe just the red and green)

catfishonthelake · #6 10-12-2011, 10:45 PM

There you go. I have to say my shoot from the hip assertion was surprisingly accurate.

johnnyc08 · #7 10-12-2011, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by catfishonthelake

There you go. I have to say my shoot from the hip assertion was surprisingly accurate.

you having 2nd thoughts? a plan C perhaps?

catfishonthelake · #8 10-12-2011, 11:04 PM

Nah, I ice fish there all the time and I have 12 fingers and 3 eyes just like everyone else.

johnnyc08 · #9 10-12-2011, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by catfishonthelake

Nah, I ice fish there all the time and I have 12 fingers and 3 eyes just like everyone else.

AWESOME! looking forward to it then

JOHN D · #10 10-12-2011, 11:17 PM

oh yeah i would also like to add that i fish with guy who ice fishes everyday there in the winter and he is one of those "i eat everything that i catch" type guys and he has all his fingers and dosent glow in the dark, but hes pretty wierd

. thats was one of the first things that came to my mind when i planned this trip and why i posted this thread.