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| My son lives in South Milwaukee and there is a creek near his home where in the spring steel head run from close by Lake Michigan. On his walk today, he noticed a lot of dead carp. Could that be winter kill? Maybe the creek froze and the carp didn't move? He had photo of a nice, live trout today as well, so it is not like there is something in the water. Just wondering if anyone had an answer. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Probably winter kill. See that a lot every spring in the backwaters of the Wi. river. |
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| I've seen a lot of carp frozen in the ice in lakes in the past, not sure why, maybe they just don't move fast enough?
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| ghoti - 4/16/2020 2:02 PM
Probably winter kill. See that a lot every spring in the backwaters of the Wi. river.
Thanks that is what I was thinking. I used to see it a lot on a creek that fed the Wis. River near where I grew up in Rapids in the spring but back in the 1960s, the river was such a nasty chemical soup, you didn't know what killed stuff trying to live in it. Between the chemicals from the mills, the untreated sewage, or partially treated sewage, it was bad. We didn't know any better and fished it all the time as kids. We were smart enough not to eat the fish. |
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| Big fish take more oxygen and smaller fish tend to survive better as long as they are past minnow stage. |
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| Fishysam - 4/17/2020 7:47 AM
Big fish take more oxygen and smaller fish tend to survive better as long as they are past minnow stage.
Think it makes a difference the carp are bottom dwellers? Maybe less oxygen down there? |
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