Dead Fish

[196champ]

Fished around Campbell's point 30th - 2nd. On Friday from Campbell's point to point 21 counted 25 floaters mostly nice LM in the 2-4 lb range and 2 big crappie 1.5-2lb. Samething down to point 20, again mostly all LM a few Spots

Noticed some on Saturday and Sunday mornings but nothing to the extent of Friday. Was this just me and an isolated event or did anyone else see this?

[Sore Thumbs]

I was in the James today and saw nothing like that.

[cheesemaster]

I was in the James also. Nothing like that at all. Did they have sores on them at all?

[Devan S.]

I saw several floaters between pt. 22 and Big M on Saturday morning. Not nearly as many but might go through an area and see 5 or so then none until you got to another wind blown area.

[196champ]

Not that I could see, couldn't believe the size of the crappie they were huge!

All were out in the main lake

[GREENTRITON]

Saw several floaters at Aunts creek yesterday, just a few here and there..

[Dutch]

My daughter reported seeing a bunch of floater while boating from Mill Creek to the old bridge below Beaver Lake.

[m&m]

is there a reason for the floaters or is this normal for this time of year?

[Bill Babler]

From Big M to Baxter Last week there were perhaps hundreds of floaters. I dipped or looked at dozens. All were Gizzard Shad. Some approaching 2 pounds. Of all of them that I looked at I never saw a single bass or a single crappie. Not saying folks did not, but I put either my net or eyeball on a very close inspection of the floating fish.

[merc1997 Bo]

a friend of mine in the big m area was walking the band and noticed several dead gizzard shad, several dead crawdads, and a couple of bass. he was on the south side of the lake across from carter creek. he was telling me that just this morning wondering if i thought that might be why fishing up this way is not too good.

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