Reply by: cat catcher      Posted: 9/21/2012 11:13:10 PM     Points: 235    

more saddening pictures of this once great fishery. in the first pic. a wiper must have been so starved it tried to eat a walleye and choked to death

 Reply by: BigTroutMan410      Posted: 9/22/2012 12:59:19 AM     Points: 316    

This is terrible!!! Just what a fishery DON'T need!!! SAD....

 Reply by: bigmacjack      Posted: 9/22/2012 6:22:31 AM     Points: 70    

Good job DOW.. Where was the fish salvage ? What a waste. That could of fed alot families .

 Reply by: Rsrecurvehunter      Posted: 9/22/2012 6:34:55 AM     Points: 598    

Have you ever had anything unexpected happen at work? Obviously they didn't expect this.

 Reply by: IceFishingFool      Posted: 9/22/2012 7:04:55 AM     Points: 4733    

Where are the rain dancers when you need em ?

 Reply by: bigmacjack      Posted: 9/22/2012 7:06:26 AM     Points: 70    

If something like this were to happen at my job they would be s*** canned. I could see being lenient if this was 1 lake in Colorado that this happened too, but there are multiple lakes that should have been under salvage. Theres no excuse.

Sorry to sound so harsh boys and girls I'm tired of seeing lakes like this.

 Reply by: catfishking      Posted: 9/22/2012 10:16:35 AM     Points: 1047    

very sad reminds me of bonny last year i was there in july and the lake seemed in good shape anyone know whats the maximum depth of the lake now has to be really down

 Reply by: Killerfihser      Posted: 9/22/2012 11:28:27 AM     Points: 275    

Omg what a total waste, I've fished this lake for many years and this year was the best from shore. It's not that we couldn't predict this was going to happen when we dropped beloew the drainage at the pump house. A fish salvage then, would have been a good decision. WTh mang..

 Reply by: Greg is crankn      Posted: 9/23/2012 8:36:28 AM     Points: 0    

This some of the worst news for us who live in sterling Colorado,it won't be fishable for @ least 5 to 7 yrs shame on u Dow for not allowing a fish salvage..

 Reply by: jbowen43      Posted: 9/23/2012 9:07:09 AM     Points: 282    

The policy of stocking these lakes that are subject to a massive draw down and subsequent risk of losing an entire fishery needs to be discussed. IF we're going to spend money on these waters then wouldn't it be prudent to acquire enough water rights to maintain a serious conservation pool?
I understand that the turnover in this lake that caused the suffocation of all these fish was an unusual event, but maybe more study is needed to determine how frequent such events might become as the climate changes

 Reply by: Greg is crankn      Posted: 9/23/2012 1:37:06 PM     Points: 0    

As much as we pay for loc,park fees that we as people who fish our local waters would have a little input could help out just my 2. Cents...

Greg Is Crankn,

 Reply by: not too old to fish      Posted: 9/23/2012 11:15:49 PM     Points: 442    

Everybody is so critical on these types of fish kills and they are too difficult to predict to blame anyone. Ketring Park suffered the same fate as Sterling and to show how difficult it is to predict, I fished Ketring park on satuday before the kill and caught several healthy bass. There was no sign of trouble or any dead fish found,but the lake was completely dead by monday afternoon. The article in the paper gave a good explination of this type of fish kill and after reading the article you can see why it is almost impossible to prevent or predict this type of kill.

 Reply by: looneytooner      Posted: 9/24/2012 2:35:27 PM     Points: 49    

Did not take long to get the pictures out hope they did not charge you for the park entrance to get those shots because it is evident one would not want to engage in any water recreation. What a shame! Northeastern Colorado fishing will take years to recover from this summer and the small towns such as Sterling, Brush, Ft. Morgan, and Wiggins will lose a bunch of wallet/purse bearing visitors. I just released a nice sized 7-8 pound wiper three weeks ago at Sterling to let it grow until next year. Again, what a shame!!!

 Reply by: Ch00Chee      Posted: 9/24/2012 7:18:06 PM     Points: 482    

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 Reply by: rainnfish      Posted: 10/4/2012 8:04:29 PM     Points: 80    

i had talked to a girl that came out wearing a orange vest doing servays back in early july. she mentioned that there has not been any wipers stocked in any lakes in three years....jackson, prewitt,n.sterling , jumbo that they do not have any for stocking.......

 Reply by: bigmack      Posted: 10/4/2012 8:16:03 PM     Points: 48    

what a waist I suggest that they never stock this lake again!

 Reply by: rainnfish      Posted: 10/5/2012 7:38:39 PM     Points: 80    

hay cat catcher ..? where exactually at n. sterling did you take those photo's of all the dead fish...can you please tell us where ..? and the dead fish that is on shore where was that photo taken ??.. and when did you take these photo's..?