WORST LAKE TO DIVE IN MN

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Everyone likes to talk about the best vis and the hardest bottom in mn... we have a lot more toilet pools, so name your top 5 worst lakes to dive (more or less if you want, and why they sucked.

1. bald eagle lake (by white bear) - dove this for about 2 minutes... went to the bottom and my 1800 lumen light could only cut through about 1-2 feet of scum water... at first bottom felt like gravel then realized it was 5 inches of snail shells... punched arm thru the snail crust into endless creamy muck.... kept imagining the bottom of an unflushed toilet from all the dark brown water and scum... got out of the water and made sure i didnt smell like poo...

2. cedar lake in minneapolis - dove out from the park on the west side... got to about 20 feet never felt hard bottom, like pea soup... called it and met confused park police on the shore. maybe 3 feet of vis

3. clearwater lake north of annandale mn - went to look for a trolling motor... again pea soup dove to 50ish feet and just stopped sinking but felt no bottom like swimming in a green milkshake, never found the trolling motor maybe 2 feet of vis

4. orchard lake apple valley/lakeville - not so bad if you found hard bottom, vis was like sinking into darkness deeper then 3 feet under the ice... bright day outside, night dive underneath maybe 3 feet of vis.

5. lake nokomis minneapolis - again about a foot of vis, littered with garbage... 5 feet of water and felt like i was swimming through rubbish that was going to impale me.