Pine Lake - Dead Fish Everywhere

[Deb]

We've not had a good year here and now, for the last three days, more and more fish are floating on the lake and on to the shore. I've seen walleye, big, healthy looking fish (no marks, no sores), just floating belly up. Lots of them, not just a few here and there. And carpets of dead shrimp, a couple of inches thick, covered the beach line. Some folks say they've seen dead pike and perch, too.

I've heard that F&W will be coming up to test the water (again).

A friend said he can still see fish on his radar, but he hasn't caught one all weekend either.

This doesn't seem natural, I've never seen this before on Pine Lake in the ten or so years we've been here. Pine Lake is a green lake and we're used to algae, but it's been thicker and nastier than usual this year. The water smells like spinach. Maybe too many boats on the water stirring things up. Maybe the algae's depleting the oxygen in the water. Maybe too much development/pollution. Maybe an unreported spill of some sort. Whatever it is, it looks like something really bad is happening.