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I've eaten fish out of the Mississippi river before and I'm still alive! just take a few minutes to look over your fish and remember how they fought if they where sluggish return them! if they appear extreme dark return them! what I do after I fillet my fish I soak them in a salt bath for a day or two, then rinse the fillets off and freeze them in a salt bath.
There are plenty of upstream pollutants too: pesticides, herbicides, sewage from upstream towns and cities, street runoff, etc. etc. I've fished it, for 45 years and have never eaten a fish from it...and never will.
BTW, wouldn't sturgeon be a resident fish (and even eat the most toxins by eating stuff OFF the river bed?).
any basic boy scout handbook page 4 knowledge... [/QUOTE said:The local boys soutcs do trip on the upper willamette every year. Most of what I remember hearing about when they get back is the nice houses and how some of their sewer drains right into the river. pretty gross....
Its like eating a diver duck from that river..i wont do it.
I don't even like to use my gear when fishing the willamette. Tough to get that funk OFF.