I am so frustrated by this, I'd been looking forward to putting a crappy summer behind me by spending a fair bit of time on Lone this fall. I'll no doubt still do it as I really love fishing this lake though I may look a bit more at Pass. If DO is the issue, then I wonder what can be done in the future. DO levels dropping could be caused by the algal bloom decaying and so using up any remaining oxygen in the water, and hot water of course doesn't help with this either, less O in the first place. Hopefully there will at some point be a lot more aquatic plant life in the lake, this will add O and burn up some of the nutrients rater than the unicellular algae which may be the root cause. However, as I understand there used to be a ton of plant life and this overgrowth threatened the existence lake, certainly pissed off the land residents there. And so the fucking around with the lake plant biology began.
One for the bios is what is the typical biomass per acre for a lake like this. 1000 fish sounds like a lot but is it? Also I wonder re #s of dead fish seen vs unseen. I assume most dead fish will gas up and float and so be visible or is this bs thinking? Still the eagles/ospreys/raccoons/wildlife will be making the most of this windfall, makes up for shitty salmon runs I suppose.
I do wonder as to the homes that surround the lake in terms of poor septic systems or over fertilizing lawns/fields but of course as owners, they have the biggest voice and indeed rights. I'm not knocking them to much but if your (summer) home is by a lake where you/you're dog can't swim due to blue green algal blooms in addition to other non toxic algal blooming and then rotting to create a low O lake which smells due to anaerobic (no O) conditions then it's like inadvertently shitting into your well, perhaps literally. Hopefully the grass carp will eventually die and plant life can grow back for the reasons I've noted.
Totally bummed,
Dave
