Quote Originally Posted by SLP View Post
KYFW reporting a die off on Barkley and Kentucky. With every one of these I always hope they can learn some way to key on a method of killing them off.



Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources

Staff are investigating unexplained deaths or reduced activity in Silver Carp fish in Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley.
Silver Carp seems to be the only species affected. If you see other fish species dead or behaving unusually in these lakes, please contact Jessica Morris at 270-759-5295.
I was down last weekend and noticed the dead silvers also. Not by the hundreds but pretty well every bay we went in and noticed them in the water there were dead ones on the bank. They weren't the big ones - they were 15 - 18 inches or so and what we noticed is they were "motivated cruising" everywhere we went. Meaning they were on the surface moving fast and making a wake and they were anywhere and everywhere. Many came by the boat a couple even banged off the trolling motor. I must have reached down with my rod and whacked a dozen or so swimming in front of me by the boat. All that said we saw 2 in that "motivated cruising" mode actually beach themselves on the bank and that's when we noted why there were so many on the bank. We were in Rhodes bay on KY Good Friday evening and there was one rock bank and with fish after fish. We did also see a couple dying in the water but the two we saw beach themselves beat everything...