Big Perch

[Eyezcrazy]

Sorry guys, but I have read the report about the dead walleye and while it sounds good that it could be from spawning stress, I am not buying what they're selling. You would not see dead drum, bass, carp and sturgeon if it were from the stress of spawning. I think someone needs to let us in on what is really going on. I don't think it is worth possible risk to us just to keep the money flowing.

If they can't be more honest I won't feel safe eating anything from the lake right now. And believe me, I am sick about it, I have been fishing the lake religously since the late 80's. I'm praying for some information to ease my concerns.

[wakina]

Sorry guys, but I have read the report about the dead walleye and while it sounds good that it could be from spawning stress, I am not buying what they're selling. You would not see dead drum, bass, carp and sturgeon if it were from the stress of spawning. I think someone needs to let us in on what is really going on. I don't think it is worth possible risk to us just to keep the money flowing.

If they can't be more honest I won't feel safe eating anything from the lake right now. And believe me, I am sick about it, I have been fishing the lake religously since the late 80's. I'm praying for some information to ease my concerns.

Personally I have not heard about large numbers of the other dead species, if they are as high of numbers of the other species as there are of the walleyes then there is most probably something else at play here besides post spawn stress. A few dozen drum could be the results of unethical sportsmen killing them for no other reason than they are sheephead , happens all the time, a rapid change in water temp can also be fatal to almost any fish. I have only heard of 1 dead sturgeon this year and they are not tolerant of muddy or polluted water, that was part of their demise in the past as well as being trapped and used as fertilizer, and one dead sturgeon does not indicate to me that it would be an epidemic of some sort. Bass in large number would be a complete mystery as I am not familar with what they can or cannot tolerate. But large numbers of bass would indicate to me that something else is at play. Most of the dead fish that I have seen floating in the lake during the spring through fall seasons of my years of fishing the Lake have been carp and drum, and drum especially in mid to late June during and after their spawn.

Can you or any one else post some sort of figure as to how many of the other species have been killed or died or seen floating in the lake this spring as compared to the number of dead walleyes. Are they about equal? When the drum died off due to VHS a few years ago they were everywhere from the Western Basin to Erie, PA. I have not heard of many dead walleyes east of the Island area so far. Has anyone else heard of a fish kill East of the Islands?.