Steelhead6438
1/18/2014 10:23:00 PMHey Ball Gawd, Thanks for the report and for taking pictures of the lesions on the fish. If I didn't know any better, I'd say I've seen these type lesions on flounder and catfish from lakes and the Sound. I would guess it came from being close to the bottom near the mud and they get infected by a type of bacteria or fungus... or it is due to pollution. You might want to take a fish physically to WDFW. They may be interested in doing some water tests on Kitsap lake.
Ball_Gawd
1/19/2014 5:57:00 AMI did call WDFW and left a message and will be calling them again Tuesday. That's the reason I kept the fish, it seemed a little fishy to me (sorry).
Ball_Gawd
1/30/2014 5:40:00 PMI finally got to meet up with the WDFW biologist yesterday. I had to call him two or three times just to do that. He did seem genuinely interested and promised to let me know the results. I will update y'all as soon as I hear anything.
RiffDuck
2/11/2014 8:17:00 PMThere was a hazard warning posted on 9/11/13 and I spoke with the biologist posting the sign when she was posting it, she said the blue/green algae is toxic and as you noticed they had since cleared out almost all of the shoreline vegetation and lily pads, not sure if it's related.
I love this lake as its 2 miles from me and I've also had some success on trout and even more so on bass at first light in the spring/summer on top water frogs. I hope they get back to you, please do keep us informed and thanks for the report!
-r
I love this lake as its 2 miles from me and I've also had some success on trout and even more so on bass at first light in the spring/summer on top water frogs. I hope they get back to you, please do keep us informed and thanks for the report!
-r
Ball_Gawd
2/12/2014 5:20:00 PMI just heard from Mark, the WDFW biologist for this region. He said that they weren't able to do much with the specimens I gave them since they had been frozen. I went out a few weeks ago and caught four that were perfectly clean! Mark is a really nice guy that really seems to care about his jobs and our lakes & fish. He says for us to call him anytime we notice something strange on any of our lakes. If you catch any fish with these marks he says to do your best to keep them alive and give him a call and he will have someone come get them. His cell# is 360-202-7005.
fourrays
2/17/2014 7:42:00 AMThanks so much for the update. Too bad that they couldn't do more with the fish you sent. Having his cell number will certainly speed up the process should any more fish like the ones you caught show up on our gear. Thanks again.