THESE FISH ARE GIANT… Exploring a Fish Graveyard

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[@RayRayLem]

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!

[@5wisher5weet]

Thanks for the clarification

[@Fingolfin3423]

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.

[@ililxaphanlili2600]

couldnt there have been a way that some of these fish went towards feeding people?

[@vincegolder4560]

Suckers are wild and native

[@RayRayLem]

@@vincegolder4560 True, maybe the cutts too.

[@Fingolfin3423]

Looks like that was a really healthy fishery. Lots of predators and bait.

[@timmmye]

I was thinking that it would probably be really hard to get them to eat anything besides the suckers packing the creek

[@yolkridermoldhider4849]

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

[@chefboyartty]

Further proof humanity as a whole is going in the wrong direction. Sad to see

[@__-zn3gh]

It was probably a man made lake lol.

[@Chris-eb6id]

Actually no beavers do this too lmao

[@osidiusemphatic3505]

@@__-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.

[@jacobwalsh8886]

Well where it's dry one place, it's raining somewhere else.

[@5wisher5weet]

@@jacobwalsh8886 yep flooding down here in Victoria, Australia

[@joet81]

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.

[@chiquilinflyfishing6115]

Bro great job on the consistent posting!!!

[@oneofthosepeople2101]

A Facebook notification to fisherman would of had people at least take advantage of this.

[@trapsquatch4937]

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.

[@steentemple2652]

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.

[@patrickelmore2400]

Great vids love the content have a wonderful weekend.

[@jeffalbillar7625]

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.

[@minhthach2747]

Seeing all those dead fish going to waste brings a tear to my eyes. 😥

[@bassman8144]

Sad but very interesting. Thanks!

[@scottbeauchamp5488]

How is that place not crawling with bears and birds of prey? Interesting video man.

[@bassntroutfishing]

Not yet, but I’m sure theres a lot of things that will eat them

[@micahflies]

Raccoons gonna get fat

[@runkorko]

There were some for sure. But when fish get that rotten, no animal will eat it. Not even boars

[@claymac7895]

@@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.

[@tjdillashaw2703]

@@runkorko not so sure about that. Watched a video on Disney plus of bears eating a rotten whale.

[@ShaneLOVESfish]

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

[@andrewzinkan928]

Go ahead and eat all the creek chubs you want lollll

[@josephmoya5098]

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.

[@Driven_Dragon]

Great video! Sad to see. Would like to know why they drained it..when your ready to tell.

[@Tastewithnewdrinks]

Great review

[@bearmcdaniel6042]

Awesome video guy

[@bassntroutfishing]

Thanks!

[@josephmoya5098]

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.

[@reapergrim76]

Very interesting!

[@BlakeCurtis]

Thanks for the great content as always!! Still going to say it… give euro Nymphing a try lol

[@bassntroutfishing]

I’ll have to Google how to do it exactly😅

[@joshuavanscoyk9404]

Man you gotta do some musky fishing for us sometime!!

[@captainawesome4983]

Looks like a long bait piles for a black bear.

[@willhartley5173]

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

[@norincofan1949]

these are fish washed down from draining the reservoir

[@gunsgonewilder5058]

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!

[@atlantic_fishing_pursuits]

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

[@sonofabippi]

This video has big "beginning of movie where the apocalypse happens" feels

[@lunkerjunkie]

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.

[@adamson1957]

Why are they draining so many lakes in your area? This is heartbreaking man... heartbreaking.

[@micbarca9777]

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.

[@bannedagain1483]

@@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.

[@micbarca9777]

@@bannedagain1483 I know that I'm not talking about tiger musky. There many other fish in the reservoir besides tiger musky

[@turkey2003]

@@micbarca9777 not much fish and game can do. They can't predict drought and don't control the water releases.

[@RogueStatusX]

@@micbarca9777 a 40" musky grows that big in about 9 years so the majority of those musky shown were probably 5-7 yrs old

[@jameskim62]

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.....

[@ericwakeman6665]

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?

[@paulmanzone8373]

Did they drain the lake because of so many sucker fish? Just getting your thoughts on that

[@joshuawortley1719]

Fish and game should be held accountable for these things

[@icymonkadelic9835]

They are the ones that drained it I’m pretty sure

[@FreedomFishing]

Yeah like wtf. We're supposed to support conservation when this is what they do????

[@Paulpoission]

For climate change?

[@BornIn1500]

@@Paulpoission This isn't from cLiMaTe ChAnGe. It's human overpopulation.

[@andrewpettit5972]

They make it rain?

[@bruhman8005]

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

[@gladegoodrich2297]

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.

[@noturfather1106]

Start netting or catching the fish out before they drain it I guess, may as well if they're all doomed anyway

[@timweckertimberridgerubsan8592]

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 😎

[@levihermanfishing]

Hey brotha, do you think you could do a video on how to fish a jig? You’re very good at it!

[@thedroopywanderer7016]

so is it cold and they're frozen or does it stink

[@adelehill7088]

That saddens me 😞

[@simply9544]

How did it dry up

[@fishingfreaks4488]

Are they draining the lakes completely?

[@zap2747]

Sad to see, but definitely worth exploring and poking around

[@fishingportal23]

Can these fish be saved in time? When the water level drops, to transfer the fish to another water. Btw nice video

[@sethboniface4942]

Wow, where is this at?

[@carolynallisee2463]

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...

[@GodOfDestructionVegeta27]

Surprised there aren't a ton of vultures in the area.

[@peatmoss4415]

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.

[@krisswegemer1163]

Unbelievable how many fish were in that little stream. Amazing. Sad.

[@wildlyunrulyadventures3942]

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.

[@DuriensBane]

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.

[@josephmoya5098]

@@DuriensBane Also, there are just so many, any local bears, coyotes, and vultures could only put a tiny dent in that stash.

[@finpainter1]

I have seen a lake drained to eliminate the trash fish .Common practice in places.

[@jhost0311]

Why did the lake and creek get drained?

[@cooperwilliams9140]

That trout eating another fish is insanely interesting. It's called an aspiration.

[@jignpigs9983]

Dude that’s so crazy ! Are there lots of bears in your area? Surely lots of other native animals enjoy the fish too

[@bassntroutfishing]

There are some bears, haven’t seen any yet.

[@jignpigs9983]

@@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

[@Texaspokem11]

So are the fish in that area ever going to recover? Do they restock it after something like this? This is crazy!

[@Black-March]

You should've shown the actual lake. Would've been interesting to see how large the lake that held all those fish was.

[@romeohulu9194]

Cool video, a real shame tho.. that looked like a really healthy creek at one point. Would of loved to fish it.

[@miketorre16]

how does that river dry up?

[@jaredb6934]

Lack of water, mostly.

[@connorerhardt1767]

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

[@patrickmchose7472]

My thoughts as well. They should drain on occasion and rodeo the suckers for fertilizer or feed. Good protein and fat there.

[@mattmiya2353]

what lake are these fish from?

[@richk3607]

Where is this? What creek?

[@ryanpeck9648]

I could smell this through my phone

[@MariaGarcia-nc4ng]

Why did river dry up do you know

[@felixreyes8560]

Did they get poison or something? I don't see any birds or something eating them

[@ThePorpoisepower]

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

[@Chris_PNW]

I've never seen so many fish dead.. amash they weren't harvested. You can make any fish taste good.

[@ItzYamiii]

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

[@Gen_Lee247]

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?

[@Endless_Chris]

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.

[@bassntroutfishing]

or they're stocked as invasive species control

[@thomasriddle8877]

well.. at least that will be a huge surplus of fertilizer for the ground..

[@komahs7685]

i remember around this time last year i found your yt channel from the previous video on this

[@bassntroutfishing]

Welcome back😅

[@komahs7685]

@@bassntroutfishing oh no, ive been here ever since and watch every video LOL

[@samfriesen2302]

It’s cool for the learning experience to see what happens and what gets left behind

[@PROFISHERMAN26]

What’s the reason the lake got dry ?? That’s crazy to c all that fish 💀 😢

[@stocktonhaider2272]

what creek was this?

[@xgoated9763]

1:23 there’s something laying dead next to the fish. Is it a muskrat?

[@xpeacemaster]

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.

[@joseduran7368]

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

[@josephmoya5098]

Should allow mostly unregulated fishing for several months before, with limits on fish they desire to relocate.

[@davecard9807]

@@josephmoya5098 They actually did open it up to harvest tiger musky of any size befor they drained it. We can't catch them all.

[@fishnfreakz]

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?

[@MrVOST]

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

[@MrVOST]

Before they all die of course becasue rn they would be no good to eat

[@davecard9807]

they did but we can't catch them all.

[@theathea7683]

Why day drain it?

[@jdmo21]

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.

[@pas69tie]

how does this happen? i don't inderstand? is it drought?

[@billbarnes590]

Why did they drain it do you know

[@Agiiee04]

Mantap bang

[@fourhorsemen3982]

Is this layin around in the dirt bad for the fish?

[@bijaytamang5270]

Where is this?

[@alanscott6323]

Surprised the birds aren't munching them

[@midwestmuskysquad]

Where r u at?

[@alcvideo]

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.

[@Joshregannn]

Is this Colorado?

[@bustedloads9045]

Get there sooner an you could have had some good mounts.

[@bassntroutfishing]

for real.

[@armandovanhaaren9823]

Did someone destroy a beaver dam ?

[@timvanede9777]

why don't you save the little perch? its elegal but is so sad for them

[@gusi4474]

This is a video you can SMELL. Musky indeed

[@Ryon_Davis]

What is the reason for the "draining" of these lakes?? Is it to eliminate a species??

[@bassntroutfishing]

Lots of reasons..

[@atlantic_fishing_pursuits]

@@bassntroutfishing which are?? I mean if they gave people a month or two notice they could at least harvest the fish..now it's just gonna rot and be useless..

[@icymonkadelic9835]

It was to get rid of all the trash fish in it

[@calvinvesco9883]

Severe drought and all the water was used up for irrigation for the summer is the main reason

[@bassntroutfishing]

Technically it was none of those reasons😂

[@zanderfalls337]

They should have transferred the fish somewhere

[@davidbentley8092]

They did relocate some of those tiger muskies. The rest are all trash fish.

[@x13xmonkey]

Won’t be long before we are laying there

[@ericpettyfishing]

That's going to be a very fertile stream bed

[@bassntroutfishing]

I bet

[@jayboi8714]

I wanna know how you could handle the stench of all those dead fish

[@92bagder]

plus side. In less than a year that soil is going to be super fertile

[@MirazimovPhotographer]

bro why u haven't save perches?

[@edwinchw]

can anyone explain what happen? like the water just dry up?

[@davecard9807]

drained the ;ake to repair the dam.

[@davidlang80]

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

[@patrickdenny9888]

Whare did the water go,?

[@graysonchristensen940]

Away