SANTIAGO, Mexico – Hundreds of Mexicans wearing rubber gloves are fishing for bottles, plastic bags and tin cans in a competition to clean a reservoir near Texas.

Rather than hooking trout and catfish, more than 300 people on Saturday heeded calls to help clean up La Boca reservoir, 105 miles (170 kilometers) south of the U.S. border.

Volunteers along the shoreline used makeshift poles to haul in debris and garbage from the manmade lake, which was recently clogged with 600 tons of refuse by flash floods.

Authorities expect participants in the “trash fishing” contest will remove up to 50 tons of garbage.

Organizers said the person who collects the most debris will take home a television, DVDs, theater tickets and toys.