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Offline DF

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Winter Fish Kill
« on: 03/03/14 13:48 UTC »
  Hear in southern MI they are talking about the record amounts of ice causing some major fish kills in the shallow lakes and ponds. It's not just the thickness of the ice but how long we have had ice, and continue to make ice (-6 air temp when I woke up today). Have any of you north guys heard similar reports?
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Offline MO QWACK

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Re: Winter Fish Kill
« Reply #1 on: 03/03/14 14:33 UTC »
In Missouri here we don't get a lot of ice our lake has been froze for 3 months. Portions of the lake ant soft a couple weeks ago and there were dead shad everywhere! I didn't see any game fish but I'm sure there was afew
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Offline andrewlamberson

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Re: Winter Fish Kill
« Reply #2 on: 03/03/14 15:27 UTC »
With nearly 4 feet of ice on the backwaters and lakes I'm sure we are going to see a major winter kill...especially a shad winter kill.

So..I've been molding up a bunch of the DD gill in white (shad) for as soon as the ice comes off for monster northern pike.
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Offline el rat

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Re: Winter Fish Kill
« Reply #3 on: 03/03/14 16:46 UTC »
Yeah it happens; especially the small bodies that are not deep enough; alot of those lakes around here have air systems installed now...
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Offline Whale Weights

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Re: Winter Fish Kill
« Reply #4 on: 03/04/14 19:14 UTC »
Farm ponds are bad this year, here in Iowa.
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Offline efishnc

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Re: Winter Fish Kill
« Reply #5 on: 03/07/14 14:27 UTC »
Quote from: andrewlamberson on 03/03/14 15:27 UTC
With nearly 4 feet of ice on the backwaters and lakes I'm sure we are going to see a major winter kill...especially a shad winter kill.

So..I've been molding up a bunch of the DD gill in white (shad) for as soon as the ice comes off for monster northern pike.
The only time I don't mind a getting bit by those razor-toothed carp is when I specifically go after them... and I'm hoping to go after them with the 7" wutz-it or maybe my Hoppin' Shad when the back waters open just as a primer for my spring muskie run.

Keep us (or at least me) posted on the way the ice out bite goes with the DD... that's a bit smaller than I would choose for myself, but I have a buddy that caught a 40 incher on a mighty mite... so I guess there is nothing too small.

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