Hartwell fish kill

[FBT]

Anybody seeing all the floaters? Not good. Talked to a corp ranger today at the dam overlook. We were both looking at all the floaters in the big water (hundreds). 3-15 lb dead ones everywhere. Some guide friends that I have talked to said its been great all summer. Catching limits most everyday and late this week it just stopped on a dime. Not even marking them anymore. Then they started seeing floaters. Hopefully it won't rival the kill on Clark's hill a few years ago but they are afraid this is just the tip of the iceberg.

[FBT]

They have been generating power all summer more than usual because of all of the rain. Sucked all the oxygen rich water out of the lake. Oops.

[Jozie & Me]

They have been generating power all summer more than usual because of all of the rain. Sucked all the oxygen rich water out of the lake. Oops.

That lake aint there to jetski and fish on.

if they could put a fence around it and tell us all to GTFO, they would.

They sure dont care about any fish.

[FBT]

Very true. Lake was built to generate power.

[DRDUCK]

Lake turned over.

[ECUPirate]

Lake turned over.

This. Hopefully Murray doesn't do the same until later in the fall. If it does, there will be floaters on Murray also. We need some cooler temps soon.

[mcduck]

I read somewhere that close to 60 percent of dead striper are on the bottom when things like this happen.

[FBT]

Lake turnover is normal. This year is different on hartwell because of all the generating that took place. Guy on the news said he took a temperature reading in 60' of water and it was 81 degrees.

[turbo]

Lake turnover is normal. This year is different on hartwell because of all the generating that took place. Guy on the news said he took a temperature reading in 60' of water and it was 81 degrees.

[Tee]

LAKE HARTWELL, S.C.

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Hundreds of fish turning up dead in Lake Hartwell has fishermen and people who use the lake concerned, according to emails and calls into WYFF News 4.

Billy Birdwell, public affairs officer with the Army Corps of Engineers, blames the fish kill on warm water. Due to recent heavy rains that elevated water levels in the lake, the Corps had to release water through Hartwell Dam at a higher rate than normal, Birdwell said.

“It changes the oxygen content and temperature of the water,” Birdwell said.

That changes the conditions for the fish living in the water below the dam, which are mainly striped bass, according to Birdwell.

Striped bass are extremely sensitive to their environment, Birdwell said. “If conditions change, they don’t do well,” he added.



Birdwell estimates more than 500 bass have turned up dead so far.

This is the first time an incident like this has happened in Lake Hartwell, but it's not uncommon for fish kills like this to happen in other southeastern US reservoirs, according to Birdwell.

[Tater]

There's more where they came from.

[JABIII]

Anyone checked to see if it is the plethora of Clemson* fans slithering out from under the rocks at the bottom of Hartwell that is depleting the oxygen?

[Tee]

Probably not seeing as the Gamecock* fans replaced them.

[Tater]

Where's that video.......

[ECUPirate]

Anyone checked to see if it is the plethora of Clemson* fans slithering out from under the rocks at the bottom of Hartwell that is depleting the oxygen?

A Clemson "jab" in the striper forum. Who would have thunk it?

[JABIII]

Just trying to help out the resource...

[tigerfan413]

Happened due to the water being pulled from the bottom to generate. Pushed all the cold water downriver, leaving the warm from up above at upper levels of the lake to fall down to where the fish are. Corp could care less about fish or anything other than running power . This couldve easily been avoided if a biologist was included in the decision making at all...

[2thDoc]

Just trying to deflect bc usc aint all that

fixed it fer ya

[quackaddict]

*snicker snort*

[Tater]

Yes, because threatening the integrity of a dam, and, subsequently, two more below it, all in the name of a species that only exists there because of said dam is such a damn good idea.....

Fuck those stupid fish, they shoulda swam up behind Keowee or on up the Tugaloo to get on some of that cooler, highly oxygenated water. Darwinism, I say.