I just heard there has been a fish kill on efl. I heard crappie, shad, buffalo, and catfish are around the banks, floating and gasping for oxygen!! Anyone know anything about this?
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I just heard there has been a fish kill on efl. I heard crappie, shad, buffalo, and catfish are around the banks, floating and gasping for oxygen!! Anyone know anything about this?
bassky
Yes it's true. There are fish dead everywhere. I just heard about it Saturday but apparently started sometime early last week.
I stopped by the lake Sat & Sun...it's a shame there are some pretty nice fish I saw dead.
I guess I may have to join tbone72 in those river creeks this winter.
Curious what would cause that ?
Lake turn over
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Originally Posted by Yates
That was my exact thought too. It's that time of year. Some fish got caught in the turn over.
I was headed there Wednesday since the creeks are still green with algae. What's everyone's experience with this? Assuming it's a turnover and not some chemical thing, do you think it's destroyed the crappie fishing for a while or that it only got a small percentage of the overall fish and it's still fishable?
By the way - when I was putting in 2 weeks back, the Ohio Fish&Wildlife truck was at the ramp and it had just dumped 50-100 12-14" musky in. They were just hanging out at the surface near the ramp, dazed and confused. I don't fish for them but hopefully it didn't wipe them out.
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This pass weekend classic I think everyone had a limit Sat & Sun with temp dropping & the turnover the bite is slow try the main river
I've saw ponds turn over but never a lake that size.
Almost all lakes in SW Ohio establish a thermocline by late summer, and they all turn over. East Fork turns over every year. There's been some discussion about the algae control DNR put in the lake to kill the blue-green algae. Apparently, that action depletes oxygen as the algae dies, killing fish. No one's admitting anything at the moment though.
I fished Cave Run lake in Ky last weekend, I think its like 8200 acres and 70ft deep, when we first got there we stopped at the marina for Minnows and a fishing report, bith people working there said the lake is getting a brown color, which means it may be turning over. I didnt think to much of it, but once we got fishing I could clearly see 2 thermoclines one at 30ft which seemed normal to Me, but there was a second at 10ft, and both where showing up through out most of the lake. The cold front and relentless rain made fishing tuff, but the fish that were caught were caught suspended around 20ft.Quote:
Originally Posted by kycreek
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Originally Posted by Tom 513
I went fishing at EF on Thursday, the 24th - and did very well trolling for crappie that day - but I did notice the lake looked brown. I thought nothing of it at the time and did not think of it again until I read this... Only reason I remember it is because I was surprised that it wasn't green at all, which it had been the few previous times before that. It looked dirty even though it hadn't rained that much in the days before. I guess that was why.
I have done very good at EF this year so I will probably try it again this fall but I'm certainly curious to know how others do who live closer and fish it more often.