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Probably won't draw as much attention as the muskie, but there seems to be a large scale Channel Cat die off in a few Rivers in my area.

This morning, JimW and I made our way back into the mouth of the Otter River in Port Burwell and were greated with a large number of belly up Cats....some bigguns too!

I called the MNR, they gave me a number for the dept of enviorment, so I called them. I lovely lady took my info, informed me there was a gentlemen in the area and he'd check it out right away.

I'm guessing it's water temp related. I'll let you know if I get a call back.

That seems kinda odd Markus, I guess I always assumed that the channel cats were pretty tough. Perhaps they need a fair bit of oxygen as well?

Too bad to hear about massive die offs thats for sure. I guess after your adventure for Cats on the Red River the local ones just dont catch your attention anymore do they ?

Fox

They do, but they were in late this year and conflicted with the timing of the spring salmon fishing. I'll be at them again next year.

Markus,I noticed that on Monday when I went out. I'd like to know what the MNR has to say,if anything. Thanks, Keep it reel

keep it reel, I missed the call, but a field employee left me a message. He's on his way down to check it out. Said he;ll call me back.

I'm impressed with the prompt follow up. Glad I called.

there is that word again "loverly"

With the exception of the muskies on the St. Lawrence, would you very-frequent fishermen/ladies say you've seen a greater die off of fish this year? It seems like there have been several reports from different areas reporting on mortalities.

W.

There has been a lot of dead floaters around here the last week or so. I'd say I see a dozen or more each day. Man you can even smell them before you see them at times.

I agree wolfe, I have seen many reports from many different areas about die offs this year, the st lawrence muskies, the cats, the carp/drums in BOQ, and a few I can't think of at the moment....