Dirty Lake

Ok what in your opinion is the dirtyest lake you've ever riden on?

lake stanley in n.e colorado. shallow, like 15 feet in the middle. no water movement thus no oxyagenation. nasty alge over the whole lake. My parents used to go there when it was relitively new and there were large scale fish kills(lack of oxygen) on more than one occasion. butter all the time. its just green butter. warmer than most colorado lakes.

Stanley?!? No way! Sloans Res in west Denver metro is by far dirtier than Stanley. Stanley is drinking water compared to Sloans. Sloans is a max of 5 ft. deep with most of it at 4 ft and under. Muddy bottom like chocolate pudding.

Sloans is so rank!!! I have hit my head so many times on the bottom. Bell Aqua in Rio Linda, CA is pretty bad also. No water circulation what so ever. The delta in spots is bad. AG water, ewww...

I think I have them all beat...2 places:

1. A small lake in Suwon, Korea
2. The Hahn River right in the middle of Seoul, Korea.

"2. The Hahn River right in the middle of Seoul, Korea."

You got that right!!! In the early 90's, I was stationed at a very small outpost about 30 miles from Seoul and right on the Hahn River. I remember there was a small recreational marina about a mile from us that offered waterskiing and such. NASTY!!! But then again, it wasn't uncommon to see the locals peeing and what not in the ditches that all ran into the Hahn River.

I can still remember the smell that hit me when I got off the plane when I first got there. HOLY STENCH!!!

Boggles my mind why someone is dumb enough to continue to wakeboard in a lake that you hit bottom when you fall..... How the hell is that even considered safe?

not to mentioned boating in a "bath tub" gosh, can't people find something a little deeper?

The Mighty Muddy Maumee River, Toledo Ohio.

Clear Lake in Northern California

The Fox River / Chain of Lakes in IL

Greg,

I was exaggerating a little about hitting my head a bunch, I only did it once. I was trying to make a point about how shallow it is. The bottom is a silty mud mix. I usualy just drove the boat anyways. People there, as is the case in most of Colorado, are idiots. IT really makes it not worth wakesteezing.

Kevin- I was just about to say that. The chain is disgusting. But you gotta love it.

Bryan....I'm not an idiot.

My bad bro, I was generalizing and not referring to you specifically. I am sure that you know what I mean about people because you spend time on the lakes in CO.

Austin Lake, Portage, Mi

5 feet of water deep, then you hit the 20-30 feet of muck/silt stuff, Your skin comes out brown if you fall. And yes, the sewage smell.

Lake Wallenpaupack, PA You can smell that thing from 5 miles away.

LAKE ELSINORE

The Fox River hands down

Fox river is pretty gross but doesnt seem as bad as mass fish deaths and floating mold. shotgun shells condoms cars sunk boats trailers are all regulars on the fox river though so its not clean. plus ur skin smells when you get out.

Upper Klamath Lake, Klamath Falls OR

The Fox River Mung.

of course my theory is that the Mung is from all the pollen and what not, but people blame it on being so dirty.

Until there is greater than a 50% chance I'm gonna die by just stepping foot into the fox, I will keep riding it until I cough my lungs out.

The Sacramento River / Upper Delta. I used to have a friend that worked for the West Sacramento xxx dept. and he told me on several occasions that the city of WS would just dump raw sewage into the river because the fine was less than it was to move or treat it. YUCK.

So for all of you guys that ride Garcia..mmmm...mmmm

hmmm ... if you didn't mean kraig, then i guess you just called me stupid? LOL! and dirty as sloan's is, the lake that my g/f co-owns up near greeley is filthy i think. every time i come home from there, i end up sick the next day, and if i have a cut or something, it always gets infected. EVERY TIME. that doesn't happen even with sloan's. and, um, that ain't mud on the bottom of sloan's. also in the running for dirtiest lake is soda lake, where i learned to wakeboard. ewww!!

Illinois river- central illinois. Im not sure the worst part, but its a mix between cadavers (sp), pollution (0 visibility), jumping fish, and mullets.

Thankfully the waters much nicer here in WI

i just quit dating a guy whose last name was mullett. mullets are bad ... whether it be guys, fish or haircuts.

wolf lakes, its a private lake thats 6 feet deep with no water movement at all. it competes with all the other nasty lakes everyone's talking about

I wish we could have smell sample sent to an unbiased judge. Anyone down?

Guys, I may not have seoul korea beat, but I boarded a month and a half after hurricane katrina hit lol. Not only were they still finding bodies around the area for the next six months, but talk about trash in the rivers, it was ridiculous. We ran my boat up on a roof that was submerged (lucky that I had outboards instead of an inboard). Anyway, think of everything that was in the thousands of houses floating around in the water lol. Leo might know what I mean, it was RAUNCHY. But, after the hurricane when it was 95 degrees and you had been working all week cleaning out twenty foot deep areas of houses, the water was a welcomed getaway.

Very good arguments!

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Lake St Louis...after a good rain its like riding in chocolate milk!

so lets give this a rating in Hobo Power!

They did a test on lake Fort Scott and found high ecoli levels near the bank. I guess that alot of the homeowners sewage holding tanks were not holding like they were supposed to. They are now doing a much better job of testing the holding tanks.

Lahontan Res., summer 2006 (near Carson City). The algae was so bad that when the board rode over patches of green, you almost went head first. The smell was pretty bad too.

Dave

bell aqua in rio linda, its a private lake and its only 4 to 6 ft deep. It was dug in the 80`s for watersking. thats why its so shallow. But you allways have smooth water.

Lake Thunderbird in Norman Oklahoma. Dont even think about wearing anything light colored, and wash the under side of your boat after every day. So much red clay and dirt, the water is the color of rust. Oh, and nevermind the high levels of Arsenic, the state says it's ok for drinking, but only after an extensive purification process.

Whoaaaahhhh NELLY! Don't be knockin' Lake Thunderbird. I grew up on that lake. Just because there is Arsenic and Water Moccasin's in the water...geeezzz....Step off already...

I'm starting to feel pretty good about the "Dirty Delta"

It didn't use to be that bad, but the last 5 years, the drought has made it drop around 10 feet, and since norman still drinks that water, they are constantly turning it. It is by far the Dirtiest Lake out there

Marine Stadium in long beach.......could use some cleanup thats for sure, but i have no doubt that korea is worse...hahaha

yo brian, i'm not a idiot either (WTF) but i will say that sloans is nasty and to be honest timnath lake has a severe alge problem. i will agree that most colorado boater are jacka$$'$

They should have licensing for boating! I hate the clockwise law in CO so much. I swear that I was pulled over by boat patrol/cops/they are different at every lake in CO, so many times and have been on the water in CA 100x's more with never being pulled over. But i must say that I miss the Colorado outdoors.

Utah Lake 40 mins south of Salt Lake City...during drought years it is 3-4 feet deep, always brown (looks like chocolate milk) until late summer when the algae blooms and the entire lake turns green. You aren't allowed to eat the fish from it because of the water's toxicity.

When the X Games were in Philadelphia the wakeboarding was held on The Schuylkill River.
(pronounced school-kul). The Schulykill is a narrow, shallow inner-city river in the middle of a 220+ year
old city. It's definitely on the nasty side. There were tires, bottles and other kinds of grimey debris
on the banks, and they had to stop the show a few times because the tow boat's water filter kept getting clogged
with crud.

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Jon4pres, I drove over and had a look at Lake Fort Scott yesterday as I was in town on business and had never seen that lake. If I'm ever back next season maybe we can make time to ride...that is, if the E.coli problem is taken care of.

When were the x games in philly?

ahhhhhhh lake "dirtybird" (Lake Thunderbird).

Went to OU 95-99 and we rode there often. It is pretty nasty. It's like sharting in your pants.

Lake Freeman, North West Indiana

kevin d, kevin k, and kevin m,
for sure the fox river!

Kanawha River, WV. It doesn't look nasty, but you don't want to know how many different chemicals get dumped into that thing.

San Luis Reservoir. lots of algae, fun to pik up as ur riding tho

I vote for the fox river also. I think that I am sick most of the summer from that water. The only time that I have seen the bottom in 2'to 4' of water is in April.

Water hyacinth is a growing problem in the Sac Delta...it'll clog your intake.

The delta is kinda like a ride on pirates of the carribean, sunken cabin cruisers, dead sheep, occaisional bodies, hot tubs floating by, plywood floating just at the surface, wood with nails, full size trees, cut firewood, and the planned new billion dollar water intake is just down stream from Garcia Bend...after it has passed a whole bunch of other cities dumping what they dump and not to mention pesticides galor and all the agricultural run off...

And the water after it has gone through Stockton/Byron gets sent to Los Angeles so they can drink it.

Makes me wonder why I love to barefoot all over it?

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Clear lake

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Lake Perris.

Back when I used to live in Riverside they used to close sections of the beach down regularly for the summer due to too much feces. It's not cool to see dirty diapers floating in the water where you are trying to wakeboard. Not to mention multiple deaths every year.

the missouri river in columbia, mo (east of kansas city) leaves a brown ring around our boat when we pull it out.

one question for all of you...why do and did you even step foot of of he boat one these lakes rivers etc...i would never even think about taking out my boat in ••••••••• that, too many lakes and rivers here in ohio to mess around in •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

Springfield lake Akron, OH is the dirtiest I have riden on but its 10 minutes from me so I wont complain.

nick is that lake private, i have never heard of it...ever go to portage lakes?...i live in chippewa lake.

ryan-

because the three closest lakes are at least an hour away, and the river is about ten minutes. plus, the danger of being eaten by mutated catfish is motivation to land your tricks...

Ryan,
Yes i have been to portage lakes I live about 25 minutes from them. Springfield lake is not private but you have to pay 7 bucks each time you launch or by a pass for like 45. It is about the size of turkeyfoot on portage lakes maybe a little bigger but not as crowded. Most all evenings and mornings are sweet. It can suck when its wind since there no where to hide from the wind.

lake allatoona in canton Ga, recently placed on EPA watchlist with a growing algae ,fertilizer spill and runoff problem. I wont even pee in that lake, dont want my junk fallin off