Fish disappeared
Oct 7, 2021 10:57:44 #
MarylandFish wrote:
Can anyone offer a suggestion why this has happene... (show quote)
Got any fish eating birds around? Eagles, hawks, Osprey? Osprey will clean up a big blue gill pond in about a week.
Oct 7, 2021 11:00:13 #
MarylandFish wrote:
I’ve never heard of this bird until I looked it up. I kind of doubt it since we are 150 miles from the ocean and I’ve never seen behavior as described.
We had Cormorants in Wyoming. That’s 1500 miles from the nearest ocean.
Oct 7, 2021 15:23:12 #
DoFish
Loc: Western North Carolina
As it is a private pond, have you spoken to the owner? Also, see if you an get a camera down in the water to see
Oct 7, 2021 15:46:25 #
MarylandFish
Loc: Maryland
It’s more like a conservation club pond. Not open to the public only members. I doubt if they’d spend the money for such a study. Today I was told that there will be stocking of 200 trout so we will see what happens to them.
Oct 7, 2021 18:56:54 #
Badmoon
Loc: Ewing NJ
Any blue herons around once they know fish are there they just keep coming back
Oct 7, 2021 19:13:00 #
Oct 7, 2021 19:16:48 #
Chuck56
Loc: Texas
MarylandFish wrote:
Can anyone offer a suggestion why this has happene... (show quote)
There is a thing called “ turn over “ that happens in a pond. Basically something happens to the oxygen and the pond plants, and algae ( sp ? ) and fish can die. And if I recall right, the bottom cooler temperatures can and will hold dead fish on the bottom until cooler surface temperature helps the pond / water equalize. Please don’t take this as absolute fact though. Just an older guy thinking he remembers stuff....
Oct 7, 2021 20:18:42 #
MarylandFish
Loc: Maryland
Thanks that’s the most reasonable thing I’ve heard. On the other hand this happened overnight and not a gradual slack off. I fished there for two hours today with nary a tug.
Oct 7, 2021 20:25:02 #
MarylandFish wrote:
Thanks that’s the most reasonable thing I’ve heard. On the other hand this happened overnight and not a gradual slack off. I fished there for two hours today with nary a tug.
Oh didn’t know it happened overnight. That’s probably not a predator problem then. It would take a heck of a lot of fish eating birds to clean a complete pond out over night. Not sure what caused that then. Maybe somebody shocked the water and took em all when nobody was looking🤷♂️
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