I live next to Lake ballinger, and there are people fishing off the dock and from the shore all the time. Sunday there was even a brave soul out in a float tube,Burrrrrrrrrrrrrr! They are there ,I wouldnt eat them as the was a nice big sewage spill some years back that coated the bottom. That is why waterski tournaments are not held there anymore, it churned up the crap opps I mean sludge , signed young whippersnapper