Hundreds of dead fish on local lake

[NY_ANGLERS]

Went to Glenmere Lake in Florida NY to do some bass fishing today. Found dead carp, cat fish, and some blue gills washed up on shore. Mostly bottom feeders. Just a few bass. Contacted NYDEC and they said most likely from a winter kill which stemmed from lack of oxygen. They were sending a marine bioligist to check out the situation. Anyone ever here of anything like this? :'(

[ww2farmer]

Yes, happens every year in shallow bodies of water that freeze over. Alot of snow on the ice decreasing light penatration is the usual culprit. Unless it's a massive kill with thousands apon thousands of fish of every kind, it hurts nothing. It always seems to be carp, bullheads, and bait fish too, a few bass, but nothing to get worried about IMHO, mother nature just did some selective harvesting for you.

[clayton86]

Happend in my buddys pond last year killed off his whole bass population exept the fingerlings. His pond was just getting some 3 or 4# fish till last year and we didnt catch a single bass his 4 grass carp made it caught them on some flies. Just seen the little 3 inch bass swimming.

[Grey Wolf]

Don't fret  , it happens every year and the fishing is not affected .

[Marty]

Same thing happened here in Rochester on one of the Lake Ontario tributary ponds within the past week.

[tomustang]

Happened at a local lake here, we got a lot of rain in 2 days, flooding out most of the streams/lakes. It went back to freezing temps the next day. Came out there and saw 50+ panfish dead on the boat launch, nothing big though.

[Kowen117]

Cold weather killed every tilapia in my river last year just seen the first one show up again about week ago.

[VTechHokie]

This is odd, I feel like if it were lack of oxygen then the bass and bluegill would be the first to die. 

Carp are much more tolerant when it comes to poor water quality. 

Just my two cents  8-)

[NY_ANGLERS]

VTechHokie I agree 100% with the whole lack of H2O killing bass and pan fish. Why the carp and cats mostly died I have know idea. Ice was very thick this year pushing 14 to 16 inches thick. Maybe that has something to do with the loss of fish?

[B-Dozer]

Do you think it's possible with the huge amount of rainfall the runoff from roads had anything to do with it?  They must have used more salt/calcium this year with all the snow/ice.

[ww2farmer]

This is odd, I feel like if it were lack of oxygen then the bass and bluegill would be the first to die.

Carp are much more tolerant when it comes to poor water quality. 

Just my two cents 8-)

Bass will over winter in deeper areas that are less affected by massive swings in water quality. Carp will stay in an area long after the water quality forces other fish out and often this is the result. At least thats the explination I got from a biologist once many years ago when this happened on a local body of water.

[NateFollmer]

Happened last year when we had super high temps. during the beginning of Bass season. A local lake here lost a TON of crappie because they were spawning about the same time, so the lack of oxygen, spawn stress and increased temps killed most of them off. I never saw some many dead fish in 1 area before, some spots of the lake you couldn't even see the water because of the amounts of crappie.

[northern basser]

Happens fairly often up here in certain lakes.