Central Florida fish kills?

[basslovr]

There was a report on our local news channel of reported fish kills in central florida due to excessive rains from Faye. Can anyone verify or dispute these reports?  :-?

[GLADES]

I have not heard about this.

The rain run off is likely to contain a plethora of pollutants.

Hopefully, if it is true, it is confined to a small area.

[Still a Bigbuckifan]

I have heard or seen none.

[JayW]

First I've heard of it.

[surfer]

2nd hand report from a guy on the st johns. He said the fish were gulping air at the surface. lack of oxygen in rain water dosn't make since to me , but maybe.

:-?

i havn't seen any myself

[avid]

I heard that Ansin Garcia had some.  Can't say how much.  I didn't hear about any in the stick marsh.  All of the lakes got deluged and I think rose to record levels.  

That was some rain!!!

[gar-tracker]

There was a minor fish kill in the Buckhead Ridge canals on the north end of Okeechobee, that last band of Fay dropped about 6 inch of water in 2 hours, it depleted the oxygen and killed a bunch of fish in the canal only not out in the lake.

[basslovr]

Thanks for the responses guys. I know there are a lot of clubs around the state with tourneys comin up and we certainly don't need any added pressures on the resource.

Tight Lines!!!!

[CFFF 1.5]

There have been some pretty significant fish kills in the Deland/Astor area. I have personally seen a lot of bluegill dead/dying and have seen two 7lb bass and 4lb bass as well as smaller bass dead. The river I believe is still closed to boats south of Marker 38 I think and North of that is Idle speed. I hope this sorts it self out pretty soon.