Binbrook Reservoir Polluted Hamilton

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An early morning fishing trip to Lake Niapenco is both grocery run and recreational outing for Dung Soun.

If the fish are biting, the Hamilton angler will fry up a decent-sized crappie in a bit of oil twice a week. He wouldn’t say no to bass or a small carp, either. Standing on the Binbrook reservoir’s rocky eastern shore on a June day, Soun admitted he doesn’t always hook his perfect meal — or when his luck is bad, any meal at all.

Ironically, bad luck may be good for his health.

Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment started warning anglers last year not to eat many — or, in some cases, any — fish from the reservoir because of a hard-to-pronounce chemical leaching from Hamilton’s airport into the Welland River, which feeds the reservoir.

http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/...d-city-resevoir

[FSHN FRK]

This is sad, but true. The Binbrook conservation area is probably one of the best crappie lakes I've every fished. The fishing is still good but I would not take a meal from there anymore.
Cheers!