Dead Fish!!!

  • jrotering
    Trempealeau, WI
    Posts: 16
    April 10, 2007 at 3:57 am #1216741

    I made my first bass outing this year to pool 5 in the turn-around near the power plant… Only to find approx. 700-1000 dead fish washed up in the weeds along the northeast shore. The majority of the dead fish were rough fish. But the there was atleast 100-200 (a low estimate) Bass mixed in with them. I’m not sure what caused these fish to die off, but it is very frustrating to see something like this happen.

    I have seen this about 5 years ago in the same area but back then it was just a large shad die off. Does anyone have any clues to what could have caused this???

    roscoe
    So St Paul
    Posts: 256
    April 10, 2007 at 4:48 am #558985

    could be the same thing that happened up at the monticello power plant, the warm water discharge was shut of and the rapid drop in temperature caused a massive fish kill…. just a guess

    kris_brantner
    My river
    Posts: 1678
    April 10, 2007 at 8:42 am #558992

    i heard about that about 2 weeks ago. i guess the dnr is looking into it…

    duckilr
    Mississippi River
    Posts: 997
    April 10, 2007 at 1:07 pm #559026

    I hope just as big of a deal gets made about this as the “stren” deal. I hate seeing dead fish…especially bass!

    davenorton50
    Burlington, WI
    Posts: 1417
    April 10, 2007 at 3:14 pm #559069

    I think all of us hate seeing bass die. I hope they find the real reason why they died…

    eronningen
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 1885
    April 10, 2007 at 3:52 pm #559095

    If you were in the backwaters back there, I am pretty sure they don’t discharge at all back in there. It all comes out on the main channel where they tie up barges. So I doubt it was a water temp thing

    cade-laufenberg
    Winona,MN/La Crosse, WI
    Posts: 3667
    April 10, 2007 at 4:33 pm #559118

    Exactly, and this time they can’t blame this on tournies!! unless Dave Genz and the ice team gang recently held an ice tourney on pool 5???

    cade-laufenberg
    Winona,MN/La Crosse, WI
    Posts: 3667
    April 10, 2007 at 4:35 pm #559119

    By the way, I saw something similar down here on pool 8, from shore. Of course there were just tons of dead shad, you couldn’t cast a jerkbait without snagging one and trust me, they smelled horrible. Among the shad though were some sheephead, and 2 dead bass within 5 feet of each other. Not a pretty sight. 1 was probably pushing 16″ too

    amwatson
    Holmen,WI
    Posts: 5130
    April 10, 2007 at 4:53 pm #559134

    Some of this is winter kill I am sure. Shad is a normal site as well as a few rough and game fish.
    The deal with the large number of bass doesn’t sound like a typical winter kill though

    jrotering
    Trempealeau, WI
    Posts: 16
    April 11, 2007 at 9:30 pm #559789

    I have heard from a reliable source that was out there a week earlier and estimated the kill to be around 4,000.

    50% Blue gill, 25% bass and 25% rough fish.

    teamcrappie
    Palo,IA
    Posts: 89
    April 11, 2007 at 9:46 pm #559793

    DNR=LMBV=Dead Bass=Decaying=Other dead fish?!?!

    duckilr
    Mississippi River
    Posts: 997
    April 11, 2007 at 9:59 pm #559801

    Quote:

    DNR=LMBV=Dead Bass=Decaying=Other dead fish?!?!

    What?

    ikeslayer
    Rochester, mn, Usa, Earth
    Posts: 328
    April 11, 2007 at 11:25 pm #559840

    doesn’t lmbv only affect largies???? ike

    Willeye
    La Crosse, WI
    Posts: 683
    April 12, 2007 at 12:08 am #559854

    Quote:

    I hope they find the real reason why they died…

    Don’t worry folks. I’ll find the real killers.

    bassking27
    La Crosse, Wisconsin
    Posts: 902
    April 12, 2007 at 2:56 am #559945

    Quote:

    Quote:

    I hope they find the real reason why they died…

    Don’t worry folks. I’ll find the real killers.

    If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit!- I think we all know who the real killer is in this mess, Common Guys OJ did it.

    Thats nature, live with it

    cade-laufenberg
    Winona,MN/La Crosse, WI
    Posts: 3667
    April 12, 2007 at 12:28 pm #560005

    I have noticed a lot of small bluegill that don’t make it every year, but I can’t every remember seeing bass in larger quantities like that.

    djmr
    Holmen, WI
    Posts: 53
    April 17, 2007 at 3:30 am #561535

    Lack of O2 in the H20.

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