Fish Kill Article - InFishermen

[Phil Lilley]

On Aug 12, Robert Robbins of Branson, Missouri, emailed Stacey King of Reeds Spring, Missouri, several photographs of a fish kill that he crossed paths with while fishing the Long Creek arm of Table Rock Lake, Missouri.

Subsequently, King contacted Shane Bush of Branson, who is the Missouri Department of Conservation’s fisheries biologist that manages Table Rock Lake.

Read more: http://www.in-fisherman.com/midwest-finesse/fish-kills-at-table-rock-lake-missouri/#ixzz3itZPfndP

[Champ188]

Bad news. Interesting about the thermocline and insufficient oxygen to support fish life below 20 feet.

[fishinwrench]

So the fish are down there, oxygen level starts to drop.....and they suffocate before they can swim up 10 feet?  

Idiots!   Even insects are smart enough to move out of a cloud of smoke.

[Old plug]

I have my doubts that all the nutrients come in from the flood inflow of flood water. I really believe its coming to the lake from  sewage problems. When i was down there about 2 months ago I seen many many quavers in the cuts for roads etc. I am sure they go farer down into Table Rock. Septic water will travel thru those things for many miles. The answer to that is to have sewers over the whole area. Table rock it a lot younger than LOZ as you age this will not get any better. There is a big push on LOZ for sewers. If the state had their way everything for a mile back from there lake would have sewers. But to me that is still not far enough. With the modern way of doing it is a lot more feasable to install sewers The people that installed our last Phase came from down in the Table rock area. 

 

[5bites]

It's not sewers....

[5bites]

The fish are basically getting trapped and can't find adequate oxygen in time the way I understand it. The topic on here earlier suggested there could be pockets of oxygen or lack of it. 

[Rodmaker]

I am coming down on the 19th for a couple of weeks. Sounds like I may be fishing pretty shallow with the thermocline at 20' and very little O2 below that. Thoughts on patterns? This is quite a change up and way out of the ordinary.

 

 

 

[5bites]

There have definitely been some positive reports posted recently despite the unfortunate fish kill. Babler has posted some good days. Good luck to you!

[Hughesy]

Maybe holding the water back for such a long period of time has stagnated some of the water. Open up Beaver and Table Rock and flush her out. Sorry Bull Shoals.

[merc1997 Bo]

yes, there has been some fish caught, but the lake is fishing very small because the majority of the lake has such low O2 levels.  with that said, that puts plenty of fishing pressure on small areas of the lake that still has adequate O2 to have active fish.  i can go back to when the bass started getting sick from the lmb virus, and you literally had to beg one into biting.

 

bottom line to the problem still exists with the corp.  get the lake levels down in the winter so there is someplace to put the late winter and spring rains and not flood everything.

 

bo