Bass die-offs being investigated

The Outdoor Wire ^ | July 26, 2006 | Jim Shepherd

[girlangler]

For any of you not familiar with the Largemouth Bass Virus: It is a disease the began occurring in largemouth bass, leading to fish die-offs in several reservoirs in the mid-1990s.

[highimpact]

When The Outdoor Wire contacted the FLW regarding the fish deaths, we learned that the study, although designed to accurately determine mortality rates might, in fact, have contributed to the high mortality.

Add this conservation effort to the long list of failures. When man tries to influence the balance of nature, nature rarely responds in the desired way.

[isthisnickcool]

It's Bushes fault! It's Bushes fault!

[Quilla]

Viris Smiris

;-)

[girlangler]

I want that bumper sticker. Do you mind if I use it as a tagline?

[Quilla]

I want that bumper sticker.

Don't mind at all - sounds like a perfect fit. ;-)

[Pukin Dog]

Someone must have floated a rumor that I was coming up there with my boat. That should stress a bass to an early death if anything would.

[dfwgator]

[JackDanielsOldNo7]

I love fishing for largemouths. I have also grown to love fishing for Blue Catfish and Flathead Catfish. I release everything I catch as far as bass go. I only keep a catfish once in a while. I despise tournaments.

I know tournaments are catch and release but that fish gets stressed if taken out of his environment for a while especially in the summer when water temps are high.

There is no need to keep a trophy anymore. If you have the measurements of a trophy and the weight that is all the taxidermist needs.

[Dixie Yooper]

Many lakes in the northern Midwest are having problems with imported diseases and nonnative plants and water life that get transported from one lake to another by boats. Some lake residents have setup boat wash areas at the landings for boat owners to wash down their boats before they put them in the water and after they take them out.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

"Bass die-offs being investigated"

For the sake of Paul McCartney and John Paul Jones I hope an investigation into the deaths of John Entwistle and Leon Wilkinson will prove helpful and informative.

[dfwgator]

What about Chris Squire?

[Dixie Yooper]

I'm a hardware slinging brook trout fisherman, and I never release anything that is over the legal size to keep. Now that I live in NC, I'm not much of a threat to the fish, but anytime I get back to Upper Michigan and it's trout season, I'm going to eat brook trout for breakfast.

[Sam Cree]

The clearest example yet! I was going to post that!

[Condor51]

Here fishy-fishy, I'm comin' for ya.

(Rapala Rules!!)

[Hildy]

If you like that, you'll LOVE this:

[Rb ver. 2.0]

The bass community as a whole will benefit from a through investigation.

[Lancey Howard]

[Western Phil]

"Bass die-offs being investigated"

One hopes that this ailment will not spread to the tenors.

[freedomlover]

I'm a proponent of fillet-and-release.