All you Biologist types

Went down toward the 31E bridge past the state park on Barren yesterday afternoon and the water changed drastically. Not far past the state park, the water became green and had a layer of green scum on top. By the time I got to the 31E bridge the top 1/2 inch of water was like pea soup. My propwash boiled up looking like green kool aid, so the water was stained deeper than just the top.

Got my line stained green and every drop of the pea soup that got on my (freshly washed) boat dried to an armor plated green spot that took hard scrubbing to get off.

I've never been real anal about keeping my boat clean, but had to spend 15 minutes scrubbing after I took out to avoid the likelyhood of having permanent green stains.

Okay you biologists, what the heck is this stuff? Some kind of algae bloom? It reminds me of a stagnant little farm pond. Will it go away with today's rain and some moving water?

BTW, I showed the main lake water temps at 72 degrees!

I think the KY River, Cedar Creek Lake and Herrington all look very green right now as well.

Yep, first MAJOR algae bloom of the season. I wouldn't worry. Pretty soon it will be just your normal green bloom...not the "pea soup" bloom you're seeing right now.

Sounds like bluegreen algae. The warm weather and the sun being out the last couple of days probably caused the bloom. The water must be full of nutrients too. Their are probably water treatment plants that discharge into the creek or runoff from farmland with a lot of fertilizer or a lot of farm animals that live on the land. I wouldn't think that would be good for fish that spawn in the headwater areas. Probably a little toxic to the fry. Was the water flowing much? Sounds like it wasn't.

def. a bluegreen algae, it was starting up there sunday.

Yes sir, Algae bloom, seen it on Cumberland last weekend also, it's always a nasty brown rust color down there. Hard as heck to rub that junk off the side of the boat too......

The water was pretty much dead still. Something was flopping all over the water. Don't know if it was carp, shad, tadpoles or what, but the area was teeming with some kind of life. Foul hooked a skinny starved looking dink LM, and got the heck back to clearer water.

Maybe Bloom but what I seen Sunday was Tree Pollen. I was floating on top of the water Sunday.

[quote=MASBASS;291632]Maybe Bloom but what I seen Sunday was Tree Pollen. I was floating on top of the water Sunday.[/quote]

Ahh...that makes sense. That was what was all over the hood of my Jeep until yesterday when I washed it in preparation for the storms today...

Plenty of pollen right now too.

Better to be floating than submerged...or even partially submerged.

Should've washed my truck sooner 'gurl, then we'da already had some rain.

When D.H. had the old boat he would not have gave it a second thought and would get out a scum frog and keep on fishing, but with the new ride well I won't say any more.LOL

Square on the money wormin. The old one would've still had scum from year before last on it.