Esshup:
Thanks for that informative info. I want the low dose here in our 10 acre lake that has no inlet from another lake, seems the others are set on a total fish kill, which I was told probably won't kill all the fish anyway.
My best fishing story ever has to do with a DOGFISH: Circa 1974, Rondeau Bay, Lake Erie, Canada. Broke teenage kids in love, me and my now hubby - borrowed a small boat from someone, put it on top of his Corvair, drove up there - there is a Provincial Park where he spent summers growing up, one side the big lake, the other side this bay just teaming with all kinds of fish and wildlife-it was like fishing in a barrel. I never put the bait on - I had a little panfish on my line, he was busy with a bass, all of a sudden a huge swirl, something grabbed my little fish, something really big, so big we pulled up the anchor and this fish pulled our boat, got it up close to the boat and it got off. Threw the 1/2 eaten fish on my line back in, it hit again! We did battle, got it up, and it was a DOGFISH- kind of like a catfish without wiskers, really ugly. Bopped it in the head, got it off the line and threw him back.
That was the nicest place, growing up in a family of 10, they would camp 1/2 summer there, then go to Lake Huron for the 2nd 1/2 of summer. There was a wildlife museum there, the six boys in his family caught the stuff for the museum, and they would catch fish and sell them, not on the lake side, on the bay side. Anyhow, something really bad happened, some chemicals were put in to kill off weeds and all the fish, frogs everything, killed. It was on TV, nothing living there. We rented a place there on our honeymoon, in 1990, walked into the store to ask how the fishing was: the lady says to somebody in the back "When was the last time anybody caught anything in the Bay?" Nobody knew. Very sad story.
The biggest fox snake was caught there, record size, they brought it down and registered it at the Detroit Zoo. I just looked up Rondeau and it looks like things may be cooking again up there, lots of conservation groups involved now.
Last edited by 2catmom; 02/26/09 10:12 AM. Reason: more hopeful ending to the story
