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Posted on: Feb. 13 2004,1:50 pm |
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Albert Lea lake is in the process of a winter kill and the fish have all headed into the channel, the DNR has opened the lake to promiscuous fishing.
This might not have happened if they would have put aerators near the channel.
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Madd Max
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2004,2:02 pm |
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Great Pic  Are the 2 aerators they do have running? Were are they located ? It looks like the lake improvement people need to get another aerator to better cover the lake.  It looks like mostly carp in the picture do you see alot of game fish or not?
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2004,2:08 pm |
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One of the guys that regularly fishes the area mentioned that there were some really big walleyes--more than 10 pounds, carp, sheephead, but no northerns. The carp seem to be doing the best--the walleys the least.
One of the guys that works out here--and an avid outdoorsman--said that if you wait too long to turn on aerators, it builds oxygen levels low in the lake, and the aerators turn the "dead", unoxygenated water into the oxygenated zone. Anybody have any verification on this?
I'm sure most of the fish didn't even make it up the shallow channel--leading to a big fish kill on AL Lake itself. Too bad for "Carp World"--but there should be a HUGE turtle population! 
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2004,2:09 pm |
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Here is another picture.
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2004,2:24 pm |
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My guess is the DNR will want to shut down those aerators near I35 next week to make sure the winter kill is complete including the rough fish. It will probably be up to the county board to make the final decision on shutting them off though.
The county should get ahold of that person that nets the carp in the summer and have them get the fish out of that channel at least. Because it is going to stink come spring.
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2004,2:55 pm |
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Jim, what you heard about the aerators being turned on late and mixing the good with the bad is true. Usually the oxygen closer to the surface goes bad first, and then when the aerators are turned on late the mixing of the surface water and water near the bottom expedites the oxygen depletion and the winter kill.
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2004,4:17 pm |
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So that's what the big hubub at the channel this afternoon was.
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2004,4:21 pm |
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It looks like mostly carp in the picture do you see alot of game fish or not?
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Fisherman had taken all the walleye out before I got there(but a lot were still looking for walleye to snag). I did see some perch floating on top of the water dead but other than that it was all sheephead and carp. The game fish are probably already dead in the lake and most likely didn't make it to the channel with the carp.
About the aerators, the lake was at its lowest level in at least 15 years and people were already expecting a large winter kill so it's hard to believe that the aerators were turned on late this year. 
Rumor is that if we will shut off the aerators and let the lake die completly the DNR has promised to stock fingerlings in the spring but it will be a quite a few years before the lake has any fish worth catching if we do that.
I sure wouldn't want to be the person making the decision on whether or not we shut down the aerators and let the lake die completely.
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2004,5:02 pm |
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If you know of where a farm drain tile dumps into the lake, go drill a hole and it may fill up with fish. These areas are some of the last areas that were receiving runoff water, and may be where some of the game fish ended up.
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Posted on: Feb. 13 2004,5:12 pm |
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| Quote (cwolff @ Feb. 13 2004,5:02:pm) | | If you know of where a farm drain tile dumps into the lake, go drill a hole and it may fill up with fish. These areas are some of the last areas that were receiving runoff water, and may be where some of the game fish ended up. |
The fish may have 3 eyes (ala The Simpsons) due to farm run off but hey.
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