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Originally Posted by karlcore
The website URL you posted does discuss the bad quality of the water, but the pictures on that URL also don't demonstrate - as you suggest - that all you have to do is LOOK at the lake and tell the water is bad.
Given that, how the fuck could someone who has NEVER been there before know that the water is undrinkable?
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Because anybody with any outdoor experience knows not to drink water without treatment, especially desert lakes. Here's a little article to clue you in.
http://www.hikerscorner.com/water.html
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Originally Posted by karlcore
And if it is "fetid", as you say, what the fuck are you doing fishing there? In fact, if it is so fetid then why is it listed on so many fishing web sites? I'd think if the place stank so bad, nobody would want to go there.
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It's because of the water quality (or lack of) that makes it such a good place to fish as it is catch-and-release, allowing the bass and sunfish to grow large and populate. People go there because we don't have many options in this area and it's not as bad as I may have led you to think by describing it as "fetid". Like most desert lakes it is a cross between a mud puddle and a swamp, and only a couple of the more swampy areas stink.
Now my question to you...is it that hard to believe that two lost and thirsty border jumpers might ask the guy with a fishing pole and a 7-UP his hand if that cooler contains any beverages he might wish to sell before falling to their knees and drinking from a bad water source?