Where is the most dangerous lake in Texas? (Houston, Plano: to live in, retired)

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by AlGreen

i was told there were no gators in caddo lake

Were those people urging you to go ahead and go swimming?

Caddo Lake.

That is over here in the green part of this map isn't it?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Rangemapx.gif (broken link)

Don't take any investment advice from those people.

[queenjean50]

You need to come and check out Caddo Lake for yourself. Take a tour aboard the Graceful Ghost Steamboat or a swamp tour on a pontoon boat. You will not be disappointed.

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by CptnRn

Were those people urging you to go ahead and go swimming?

Caddo Lake.

That is over here in the green part of this map isn't it?



Don't take any investment advice from those people.

I don't know what happened to that map link. Here it is again:

[badhornet]

Canyon Lake seems to take several people a year in drownings

[Sunderpig2]

Lake Gargasso

[Wesnles]

An American man, 30-year-old David Michael Hartley, was shot on Lake Amistad last year, Sept. I believe, when he and his wife were exploring the lake on jet skies. That is a danger we don't usually associate with boating on lakes.


David Hartley, 30, of Milliken, Colo., was shot in the back of his head on Sept. 30 by alleged Mexican drug smugglers while jet-skiing on Lake Falcon with his wife, Tiffany.


Tiffany Hartley, 29, told authorities that the couple had set out on their jet skis to photograph the Old Guerrero church on the Mexican side of the lake -- an area notorious for illicit drug smuggling. Hartley said her husband was shot when the two tried to dodge bullets from three speed boats driven by the alleged smugglers. Hartley's body has never been recovered.


Read more: Authorities Release New Info in American's Shooting Death on U.S. Border Lake | Fox News

[Wesnles]

Just didn't want lake amistad to be confused with lake falcon which are separated by 4 hours by car. Del rio sees lots of money come in from lake amistad. We have never felt threatend on the lake.

[Newbe10]

Originally Posted by loves2read

that is the one getting in the news but I live in DFW area--lots of drunk people piloting boats, boating accidents, boats running over people in the water--
if there is one worse than Lewisville it must be pretty bad...

Lake Lewisville also seems to be the one where Marinas get heavily damaged and boats get capsized whenever Severe Storms strike the metroplex. I think the lake is either cursed or it is just where all of the idiots hang out and for some reason, where most of the storms strike.

[Newbe10]

Originally Posted by CptnRn

I don't know what happened to that map link. Here it is again:

Yeah, you wouldn't catch me swimming in any East Texas lake because of that very reason! Don't want to become some giant toothy reptiles next breakfast lunch and dinner!

However, I wouldn't mind canoeing or kayaking on some lakes out in E. Texas like Caddo Lake and Lake O' The Pines.

[kenshi]

Originally Posted by Newbe10

Yeah, you wouldn't catch me swimming in any East Texas lake because of that very reason! Don't want to become some giant toothy reptiles next breakfast lunch and dinner!

Psh. North Texans... That's why you bring a knife.