THESE FISH ARE GIANT… Exploring a Fish Graveyard
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For folks concerned about the tragedy or incompetent Fish and Game, we’re just running out of water and good snow pack. These are typically man-made reservoirs in UT made for agriculture and flood control then loaded with hatchery game fish. Nothing really natural is being lost and their purpose is being served but it is sad. Until we give up Alfalfa, green lawns, and refill Powell(ha) etc etc buckle up for more my fellow Utahns. Always fascinating to see the fish we missed hooking!
Thanks for the clarification
If those are stocked fish, it brings into question the management of that resource. If I was an investor or philanthropist involved in something like a conservation program that stocks fish, I would likely step out after seeing this.
couldnt there have been a way that some of these fish went towards feeding people?
Suckers are wild and native
@@vincegolder4560 True, maybe the cutts too.
Looks like that was a really healthy fishery. Lots of predators and bait.
I was thinking that it would probably be really hard to get them to eat anything besides the suckers packing the creek
that was interesting and great to see, thank you. the amount of fish lying around, gathering up wherever the water ran out last, fascinated me
Further proof humanity as a whole is going in the wrong direction. Sad to see
It was probably a man made lake lol.
Actually no beavers do this too lmao
@@__-zn3gh Not to mention the fact that we can feel pretty confident this wasn't a decision made sparingly. You don't stock a lake this well with the intent of draining it on a whim.
Well where it's dry one place, it's raining somewhere else.
@@jacobwalsh8886 yep flooding down here in Victoria, Australia
Bro great job on the consistent posting!!!
It's pretty crazy man. I have never seen that lake that low in my life. We found a huge musky that someone put on the road above last week. Atleast 40+ inches. It sucks to not be able to catch them.
It doesn't just suck to not catch them. It sucks that they lived such a useless life compared to others. I'd get it if they were an aggressively invasive species but fvck man that's a lot of death.
Man that's sad. Man-made Reservoir and Hatchery fish or not, it's hard to see. I know it would take a lot of resources, but it's too bad that the conservation authorities couldn't have relocated some of those fish as the lake was being drained or something.
A Facebook notification to fisherman would of had people at least take advantage of this.
I saw the same thing at Silverwood Lake in Southern California in the early 80s.
There wasn't as many fish as in this video, but it was close to the numbers.
Great vids love the content have a wonderful weekend.
Sad but very interesting. Thanks!
Very interesting!
Sad to see but I’m from Arizona and I wish our creeks and streams had HALF that many fish. Hope the rest of the streams are safe from this
these are fish washed down from draining the reservoir
Seeing all those dead fish going to waste brings a tear to my eyes. 😥
Great review
Now I know our Fisheries board is shocking over here in ireland but this shows it's not just here that the fisheries are plain crazy and ultimately useless....sad really
Man you gotta do some musky fishing for us sometime!!
Bro those fish COULDA fed a lot of people, it's crazy how people screw up , just like how people killed off roaming bison . Instead of restoring we usually just destroy
Go ahead and eat all the creek chubs you want lollll
Besides the suckers they were all ok introduced, non native fish. I say good riddance. Give it time and the return of good winter storms, we can reintroduce our natives and restore our watersheds to the natural state.
Unpopular opinion. This is a Good given blessing. It's a chance to slowly but surely restore native fish to our streams. It will take a ton of time, but without introduced predators, we can restore native fish more successfully to their habitats, and maybe our grandkids can see what the West was like before we tried to make it just like the Mississippi drainage and the Appalachians.
Unbelievably sad to see so many beautiful fish go like this... I wish we as anglers could do something about this.
Great video! Sad to see. Would like to know why they drained it..when your ready to tell.
This video has big "beginning of movie where the apocalypse happens" feels
Fish and game should be held accountable for these things
They are the ones that drained it I’m pretty sure
Yeah like wtf. We're supposed to support conservation when this is what they do????
For climate change?
@@Paulpoission This isn't from cLiMaTe ChAnGe. It's human overpopulation.
They make it rain?
Thanks for the great content as always!! Still going to say it… give euro Nymphing a try lol
I’ll have to Google how to do it exactly😅
Was that drained deliberately by people? 'Crazy' doesn't even begin to describe the devastation it's caused. Yes, a lake can be re-stocked with fish, but it takes years for such a population to grow to such a size... and years for the lake ecology and the food web to recover enough to support it. As impressive as the sight of all those dead fish were, it would have been the tip of the iceberg: what we didn't see was all the other organisms in the food chain that must have been lost, too. Even once it's re-filled and restocked with fish, iy's going to be a long time before that lake will be so rich with life again...
I had seen your video about the last reservior draining and all the dead trout, very sad. Any explanation as to why both of these dams were drained in the first place? It's too bad people weren't given the chance to come and harvest and keep all they could catch prior to the gates being opened. What a waste!
How is that place not crawling with bears and birds of prey? Interesting video man.
Not yet, but I’m sure theres a lot of things that will eat them
Raccoons gonna get fat
There were some for sure. But when fish get that rotten, no animal will eat it. Not even boars
@@runkorko - Bears definitely eat rotten fish. These fish aren’t rotten they are essentially decomposed by this point. There’s nothing really left of them to eat.
@@runkorko not so sure about that. Watched a video on Disney plus of bears eating a rotten whale.
In springtime (since I’d assumed it’s snowed in in winter) you should come back and look at the skeleton graveyard and try to guess what is what
Awesome video guy
Thanks!
With all the suckers and perch those muskies were eating well.
Every year when they shut off the irrigation water at Panguitch lake theres thousands of big dead trout in the dry streambed.
Start netting or catching the fish out before they drain it I guess, may as well if they're all doomed anyway
They expect people to follow laws and regulations .Yet they can pull the plug on a lake like its nothing and kill thousands of fish with no attempt to relocate them and with no penalties thats very sad tbh.
I have seen a lake drained to eliminate the trash fish .Common practice in places.
Hey brotha, do you think you could do a video on how to fish a jig? You’re very good at it!
Great video bro ! I’m with the others though, why aren’t they being eaten by animals ? Around here the raccoons would have a hay day ! I would think something would be munching them. Great footage. Very educational and informative ! Nice shirt 😎
Sad to see, but definitely worth exploring and poking around
That saddens me 😞
Creek might have some gold flakes ?????U should carry a gold pan.... Gold panning will be interesting contents for u specially majority of your viewers are outdoor guys and gals.....
Unbelievable how many fish were in that little stream. Amazing. Sad.
That trout eating another fish is insanely interesting. It's called an aspiration.
Why are they draining so many lakes in your area? This is heartbreaking man... heartbreaking.
these reservoirs are primarily used for water for the nearby towns (e.g. yuba reservoir supplies Delta). So the fish that are there are second priority. the thing that pisses me off is the money wasted by fish and game stocking these fish and letting them die. that's years of work to ge those numbers and size, over a decade. this sucks.
@@micbarca9777 tigers Dont take a decade to get to that size. They get to 40" in 4 years. They are sterile, so they cannot breed.
@@bannedagain1483 I know that I'm not talking about tiger musky. There many other fish in the reservoir besides tiger musky
@@micbarca9777 not much fish and game can do. They can't predict drought and don't control the water releases.
@@micbarca9777 a 40" musky grows that big in about 9 years so the majority of those musky shown were probably 5-7 yrs old
Looks like a long bait piles for a black bear.
Can these fish be saved in time? When the water level drops, to transfer the fish to another water. Btw nice video
They should tell people about these fishes and let people take them home to eat or do something with them instead of letting them go to waste
Before they all die of course becasue rn they would be no good to eat
they did but we can't catch them all.
I lived in a place that has a power house on a branch of a creek. The power house was shut off while I was there and about 20 steel head were left high a dry flopping around. So my friend and I scrambled around and picked them up and ran them back to the river. All of them swam away.
surprised to see the muskie left. the state worked hard and spent a load of monies trying to find good brood stock to implement a stocking program. seems like they woulda tried to transplant a few.
Where is this? What creek?
Are they draining the lakes completely?
so is it cold and they're frozen or does it stink
Cool video, a real shame tho.. that looked like a really healthy creek at one point. Would of loved to fish it.
what lake are these fish from?
Did they drain the lake because of so many sucker fish?
Just getting your thoughts on that
Wow... That's really heartbreaking to see. What a sad, unfortunate waste. Also, it seems strange that there doesn't seem to be any signs of scavengers. I wonder why. No buzzards, or condors or bears or anything. Crazy. I hope you all get a pile of snow this winter. You obviously need it.
Given that he can walk around without passing out due to the smell, id say that the nights are probly cold enough that they arent spreading smell quickly. And there are just so many other fish around that the small ones (foxes, raccoons, and coyotes) are already full. But i would guess that for the next few months that whole area is going to be covered in vultures once they get on target.
@@DuriensBane Also, there are just so many, any local bears, coyotes, and vultures could only put a tiny dent in that stash.
how does that river dry up?
Lack of water, mostly.
How did it dry up
Why did the lake and creek get drained?
Wow, where is this at?
Столько рыбы погибло это жесть, реальная катастрофа для природы и для рыбаков (
So the money you spend on a license goes to help fund these projects (raise a muskie ,transplant it,they will keep the sucker population in check!! Great idea boss let's do it!!) That's where your money goes. Nice new truck's though. Who's the real sucker here?
Not going to lie it looks like that lake and creek had wayyyy to many suckers in it. Still sad but when it comes back it should be a really good trout lake and they wont have to stock muskies again
My thoughts as well. They should drain on occasion and rodeo the suckers for fertilizer or feed. Good protein and fat there.
it certainly is sad and it certainly is wasteful. And I also feel like some folks in the comments do not understand the concept that these resevoirs are manmade as others pointed out and that human water needs are always always always first in the hierarchical needs of nature. Much of the USA is in bad drought right now. They would never have even considered draining the resevoir if severe drought was not threatening human water needs. Human can survive without food for a month but only 2 or 3 days without water.
what creek was this?
I'm a little surprised that scavengers, bears/otters etc having cleaned up more... but I guess they all ate their fill and there was just that much left over, and their too old for anything to want what's left
Back east Tiger musky (sterile cross between northern pike & musky) are planted to consume over populated fish. Wonder if these were planted to consume some of the suckers? Were those suckers invasive?
So are the fish in that area ever going to recover? Do they restock it after something like this? This is crazy!
They should allow unregulated fishing for a couple days before they drain a lake like that if they're just gonna eliminate all the fish
Should allow mostly unregulated fishing for several months before, with limits on fish they desire to relocate.
@@josephmoya5098 They actually did open it up to harvest tiger musky of any size befor they drained it. We can't catch them all.
You should've shown the actual lake. Would've been interesting to see how large the lake that held all those fish was.
Dude that’s so crazy ! Are there lots of bears in your area? Surely lots of other native animals enjoy the fish too
There are some bears, haven’t seen any yet.
@@bassntroutfishing nice man I’m from Southern Central Indiana i wish I had all those species of fish where I’m at love watching your videos -Steven John
The really ought to change regulations when things like this are happening. Then again it's not often the government does anything responsibly. Interesting to see, sad to contemplate.
i remember around this time last year i found your yt channel from the previous video on this
Welcome back😅
@@bassntroutfishing oh no, ive been here ever since and watch every video LOL
Why day drain it?
Surprised there aren't a ton of vultures in the area.
What’s the reason the lake got dry ?? That’s crazy to c all that fish 💀 😢
Where r u at?
Why did river dry up do you know
Muskie and Pike have attendency to jump out of a waterway that is too shallow. They'll flop a long ways in an attempt to make it to water. That's why you might find them a long way from water
Why did they drain it do you know
This is crazy to see, being in England we never see stuff like this. Bet the smell will be awful in a few more days
I live near a river that has seasonly salmon runs and at the end when they die the smell is so putrid I can't stand it. I can't imagine how bad it smells out there.
I could smell this through my phone
how does this happen? i don't inderstand? is it drought?
Hm, in San Jose , Cali when we had our first major drought of my liftetime they let us take all the fish we could to eat and to plant elsewhere. Some dude even moved a few sturgeon to some ponds and a ton of trophy bass.
Where is this?
It’s sad to see for sure, I’m also surprised that there aren’t 1 million birds in there
Never thought musky were out west? Always thought they thrived near the Great Lakes. Are they introduced? In that case wouldn’t it be devastating on native fish?
Not these guys. Tiger Musky are a Pike/Musky cross and are not native. They are sterile, very fast growing and exclusively stocked as a game fish.
or they're stocked as invasive species control
I didn’t realize you couldn’t bucket them out and put back into the reservoir! Good to know. Don’t want to be doing anything illegal when fishing.
Ya man, listen to your local government and watch everything die around you..!
Including your liberal family. 💪
Ccme on man, you get good fish, no need to do the hold the arms out to put the fish closer to the cam to make it look biger than it is.
Si esa mortandad tan impresionante de peces se debe al drenaje de un lago, por qué motivos las autoridades lo permiten sabiendo el daño ecológico que se origina???
What is link to other video?
In the description
I've never seen so many fish dead.. amash they weren't harvested. You can make any fish taste good.
They drained for repairs right? It’s unfortunate, but they’ll stock it back up again. My wife and I went through the meadows there a couple of years ago and found a couple of giant muskies hiding under the banks in pools they were trapped in because of low water. Lots of dead muskies too. Crazy.
Is this Colorado?
Did they get poison or something? I don't see any birds or something eating them
Who drained the lake and why they did that???
Why does this happen there. We don't see that in washington state
It’s cool for the learning experience to see what happens and what gets left behind
That's going to be a very fertile stream bed
I bet
Man you missed an amazing opportunity to fish for those while they were alive. 😢
A 32 inch tiger is probably around 4 years old, not 10.
So, as much as it sucks to see this, the UDWR did make efforts to save as many tiger muskie as they could. They were able to transplant around 100 tigers to Navajo Reservoir before it was drained, one of which was 48". Definitely thankful that they saved as many fish as they could since the reservoir had to be drained to work on the dam.
My god eh...sad stuff man...I woulda been grabbing a bunch of them perch for the pan atleast
well.. at least that will be a huge surplus of fertilizer for the ground..
This is a video you can SMELL. Musky indeed