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 . 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 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.

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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?