Fish kill Venice, Florida

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VampAro69

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Dec 21, 2008
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Venice, FL
I work on a golf course in Florida, and last month we have been getting frost and a lot of fish have been dying, snook on the beach, but anyway the golf course I work at has all freshwater lakes.

There is a lake on hole 3 that is said to have a natural spring. Well 1 day after the start of the frost a snook about 40 inches shows up dead :WHOA:. A true lunker, huge fatter than my thigh. So just when we all think maybe someone put it in or a fluke, 3 days pass I drive buy the lake and 2 more 30+ inch snook show up dead and a Tarpon about 4 feet. Amazing.

Now Im sure most of you have heard of snook and tarpon become "landlocked" I think is the phrase. There is a brackish water creek "curry creek" that has a little little creek thing that never has more that 5 inches of water draining into curry. But when hurricane Charlie hit curry creek went up overflowing into the fairways and maybe thats how they got in.

Now some may be wondering why I put this in the knifefish section. The best part on hole 4 a knifefish that measured 32 inches showed up dead.

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HOLY COW!!!!

Is that a clown knife? I didn't know they got that big.
 
Id be fishing the hell out of that place!!! BTW, hows things going with you????
 
kdrun76;3911211; said:
HOLY COW!!!!

Is that a clown knife? I didn't know they got that big.


Yeah, the books say that they get 39 inches, and this one was 32.

Id be fishing the hell out of that place!!! BTW, hows things going with you????
Hey good man thanks. Ill send you a pm.
 
In the wild they get huge, theres only a few lakes with them around here but I've seen some pictures of them getting at or near 3ft.
 
and yea this cold has taken a toll on fish in florida, tons of non natives dying and even natives
 
^ yah thats for sure I think they canceled snook and tarpon season. And when winter comes snook go in shallow rivers to stay worm and we had a freeze for like a week straight so the shallow water got even colder and snook were dieing everywhere. It sucks...

And the lake guy, goes from course to course spraying algae and says there are a lot of non local fish dying, and had a picture of it looked like a armered catfish it looked almost 10" blackish pinkish redish with big plate like scales that had died on another course.
 
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