A lot of fun missed out and wheweee, that smell

robow7 · 07-14-2011, 10:09 AM

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) - The city of Decatur says low water is what killed up to 10,000 Asian carp and other fish below the dam between Lake Decatur and the Sangamon River.
Keith Alexander is Decatur's water management director. He says the city lowered the water in part as a measure recommended by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to help keep the carp out of the lake.
Alexander says high heat and the presence of so many fish in so little water is killing the invasive fish.
Alexander says 90% of the fish in the low-water area are carp. The city has never before noticed so many near the lake.
The fish have spread throughout the Mississippi, Illinois and Ohio river basins. They're heavy eaters that out-compete native fish for food.

HNI_Christine · 07-14-2011, 11:20 AM

They're just going to leave them there. Mmmm... Nice.

Decatur smells kind of funny as it is.

robow7 · 07-14-2011, 01:09 PM

No longer will be known for stinkey Staley's as when I grew up there

HNI_Christine · 07-14-2011, 01:17 PM

Here's some video of it. Looks like more than 10K fish.
http://youtu.be/SlUbwYI5lrQ

Johnny b · 07-14-2011, 02:24 PM

It's been all over the local news today.

robow7 · 07-15-2011, 06:36 AM

I'm assuming that they will open the gates and eventually wash all those dead and rotting fish downstream but then again some probably "love the smell of rotting fish in the morning" (in my best Robert Duvall impersonation)

JPIKE · 07-17-2011, 05:06 PM

big ol catfish in that video there. Wish i would have known there was alot of silvrs over there. Thats alot closer than the illinois for me.

Johnny b · 07-17-2011, 06:25 PM

The hard part is finding a place to launch a boat. We have known about them and some huge gar for years, but no way to get to them.

JPIKE · 07-17-2011, 07:28 PM

ill find a place (hopefully). Rather run up then float down anyways

JPIKE · 07-18-2011, 08:44 AM

yea it didnt look good for finding a place. But thats why we are rigging a second boat thats a 14ft. Idk if its gonna have a main motor or just troller. But we are going to keep it light with a flush deck and halos so we can just carry it down to these creeks and rivers that dont have any access points.