Water really stinks lately????

[bigbill]

I'm not sure whats going on but when i get home from fishing my hands and pants really stink from the water.  I also notice the weeds really smell when i remove them from my cranks too.  Could it be from the lack of rain?  I also notice that the topwater bite is way off too.  Its just not a normal bass fishing season this year.  I been comparing notes with my buddies and we all agree the bite is way off.  I'm going to break out my Combo C Lector and start checking the waters PH more often.  I'm not in a slump the bite isn't happening the way it once did.  I'm also wondering if the ecomony has something to do with it with people fishing more for a meal too?

Have you noticed the trees in your area too?  Our trees here seem to be dying for some reason too.  I don't want to mention the 2012 thing but it sure looks like our earth is slowing down or changing.

                                                      BB

I just spent over $1,000 on fishing equipment stocking up for the new water shed area to open up for fishing.  I'm waiting to see what size boats there going to allow there too.  This place is a stones throw from my new place.

[Grey Wolf]

Old Mother Earth is constantly changing and will continue to until the end , whenever that may be.

[NateFollmer]

Comes and goes in cycles.

What is the smell... smell like? Is it fishy? Rotten? Earthy? If the weeds and grass start taking over an area, they will hold onto smells. I wouldn't worry about it.

[Glenn]

It could simply be an algae bloom.  Happens this time of year.  Normal stuff.

[FishingBuds]

I'd say its off too, I've noticed this in Deer season also, the last three years have been off

[bigbill]

The weeds have a never ending oder its worse than the worst salad dressing/greens smell. I never seen it this bad.

Talk about the deer. At my place(camp) in VT back in the mid 80's when i purchased it, it looked like I80 or I95 with deer tracks all over the place. Then partly thru the 90's the yotes were chasing or following the deer because behind every deer track there were yote tracks following them. Each set of deer tracks had its own yote assigned to it. By the time 2000 hit we now have very little deer tracks and the growing numbers of mountainlions too now. I've personally seen them a few times. One big male is pushing 180 to 200lbs.

Now i'm going in this direction talking because i night fish too. We have bobcats, lynx's, mountainlions and blackbears in Ct too now. Us shore night fisherman must be on the lookout as to not become an easy meal. Use your senses at all times. Listen to the woods at night too. The blackbear gives off an awesome stick and i usually smell and hear them crashing thru the woods before they know were there. The bobcat i come across sound like a baby with a cold, with congested like crys. The lynx i have seen are like the size of a mid sized dog.

Fact; The yotes are bigger lately too. I said this many years ago that they look much bigger for some reason. I'm seeing yotes as big as female german shepards if not bigger. At first i though they were wolves but not exactly. Everyonme laughed at me when i said this. I later read about the northern New York waters being frozen in the winter time and the Canadian wolves were crossing the ice into the USA and there interbreeding with our yotes making a larger wolf/yote type animal. Just one more thing to be aware of when fishing or hunting. trust me i'd been much closer to bears and mountainlions than i really want to be. When camping and cooking bacon i get visits all the time from the animals. That already cooked bacon in a can isn't a bad idea when camping in the wilds. Just a quick warm up if you want too and it tastes really good cold too.

Bealert, beaware of your surroundings, stay safe, and Godbless; BigBill

BTW;  NASA did say the earths axis is off 3" due to the earth quake in Chile.  Heck i'm going fishing anyhoo.

[flippin and pitchin]

The earth's axis is off ?  That's why my spinnerbait's blades won't turn slowly.  Honestly, hot water does not dissolve oxygen very well and vegetation often starts to die and rot.  The rot creates gasses and it stinks.  My home lake had the worst algae bloom I have ever seen last year. The water stunk and so did the fishing.

[timothy_spain]

Only thing I smell when I'm done fishing is "fish" on my hands, which is a good thing.