From Good to Bad

[crustyangler17]

yesterday i went to my new lake and managed 50 bass and 5 sunnies, incredible as usual. this morning i tried a different pond near the same housing development, hoping not to get kicked out :p . looked like there would be bass between 10-15" with not much slop in the water so i thought my ML rod would be perfect. tied on a small popper and on the first cast my line got a bit tangled when flying off the spool. while untangling it a 2lb bass crushed the lure and i set the hook reeling in the tangled line. this was my first topwater bass of 2012 :) . fished for 2 more hours with different stuff and ended up losing lures due to bringing too light of tackle as big fish snapped me off, including losing what looked to be a 4lb chunk on a stick bait :(. decided to go back to the same spot as yesterday since the fish were smaller. upon arrival i was shocked to see hundreds of sunnies, bass and catfish half dead with their noses sticking out of the water, and some washed up dead on the bank :confused: none of them would touch my lure, they didn't even move when i reeled it through them. fished the pond next to it and managed 2 more bass a bullfrog and a crappie, so it was just the one lake that got screwed up. i don't know what happened in a 12 hour period that caused a massive fish kill, mabey some p.o.s. dumping chemicals or a parasitic/bacterial outbreak in the water. its a shame to see such a good fishery go to waste.
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[AndyS]

Please report ALL fish kills to NJ FG&W.


http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/contactform.htm

[crustyangler17]

just sent an email to nj fg&w. waiting for a reply...

[arg725]

You have got to be kidding me - correct me if I'm wrong, but here is what I see :

You go on a public access website and brag about breaking the law - tresspassing and fishing DIRECTLY beyond the sign that you were so proud to speak of.

WHILE breaking the law - you show pictures of fish that were "released" laying on rocks and gravel - and who knows what other nice, gentle, ETHICAL treatment they received.

You are AMAZED and CONFUSED when upon returning the next day, there are dead/dying fish everywhere.

You have the audacity to call the state and report a fish kill?????
You wonder about some "p.o.s." poisening the water - or a mystery bacteria??
I would be very curious as to how detailed your "report" to NJ Fish and Game was.

There are so many things wrong with this - but one that keeps coming to mind is that this is the type of thing that makes ETHICAL, LAW-ABIDING hunters and fisherman like myself and most other sportsman look bad and have to deal with a lot of needless non-sense from anti's.

It is already bad enough without things like this.

Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

[dboyd101]

and i just thought it was a rock bass..

hmm..

[crustyangler17]

You have got to be kidding me - correct me if I'm wrong, but here is what I see :

You go on a public access website and brag about breaking the law - tresspassing and fishing DIRECTLY beyond the sign that you were so proud to speak of.

WHILE breaking the law - you show pictures of fish that were "released" laying on rocks and gravel - and who knows what other nice, gentle, ETHICAL treatment they received.

You are AMAZED and CONFUSED when upon returning the next day, there are dead/dying fish everywhere.

You have the audacity to call the state and report a fish kill?????
You wonder about some "p.o.s." poisening the water - or a mystery bacteria??
I would be very curious as to how detailed your "report" to NJ Fish and Game was.

There are so many things wrong with this - but one that keeps coming to mind is that this is the type of thing that makes ETHICAL, LAW-ABIDING hunters and fisherman like myself and most other sportsman look bad and have to deal with a lot of needless non-sense from anti's.

It is already bad enough without things like this.

Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
look idiot, i had no clue there was a no trespassing sign at this place since it was my first time there, but at 6:30 am with no one around why go back home instead of giving it a shot? didn't think there would be fish anyway. either way, its none of your buisness what i do, and i ALWAYS follow every fish and game reg there is.

just because i trespassed for the first time in my life, who the hell are you to assume i don't abide laws and is unethical towards animals when you never met me and never will? and i'm not proud of it, just stating that i did. i put the fish on the rocks because he had a mouth full of treble hooks and as you see in the other pic, i lip them almost all the time. it wasnt flopping around or bleeding, losing scales, anything. swam away fine. why dont you talk S**t about those who DO keep fish illegaly and leave trash behind? because i sure as hell respect wildlife more than other people i've seen leaving trash behind or keeping everything they catch.

when i went to the lake with the dying fish, it was a different water body, and how the hell would an entire population kill be my fault? to sum things up, if i didn't care about wildlife i wouldn't have contacted NJ FG&W in the first place.

oh and btw, i got an email reply by them. they are forwarding my message to the Lebanon Fisheries Office and their toxologist team. i doubt they would care about how i placed 1 fish on rocks when an entire lake is getting wiped out. so yeah, i corrected where you are wrong. happy?