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Minnows Galore!
Baker native Lance Loken of Bismarck and some friends went darkhouse spear fishing on Island Lake north of Wolford March 7.
"It appears the lake will winter kill as swarms of minnows were coming up for oxygen," said Loken. "It made fishing almost impossible as we could hardly see through them."
They didn't have any luck with fish and ate venison for supper that evening.
There were piles of minnows like this next to every place people had been fishing. "When you think of what it takes to buy minnows for fishing, these represent a small fortune if you had some kind of tank to keep them alive," Loken said.
The ND Game and Fish Dept. estimates up to 20% of the lakes in North Dakota will winter kill this year.
www.bensoncountynews.com
"It appears the lake will winter kill as swarms of minnows were coming up for oxygen," said Loken. "It made fishing almost impossible as we could hardly see through them."
They didn't have any luck with fish and ate venison for supper that evening.
There were piles of minnows like this next to every place people had been fishing. "When you think of what it takes to buy minnows for fishing, these represent a small fortune if you had some kind of tank to keep them alive," Loken said.
The ND Game and Fish Dept. estimates up to 20% of the lakes in North Dakota will winter kill this year.
www.bensoncountynews.com
Tags: minnows, lake, galore, fishing, loken, island, north, winter, kill, bismarck
More Tags: Lance Loken, Island Lake, North Dakota, Hospitality_Recreation
Region: North Dakota
Categories: Fishing > Ice Fishing
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Re:That is crazy stuff!
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Re:Same kind of thing happend to Beaver lake south of Napoleon a few years ago. Minnow litterally flowed out of the water where-ever you drilled a hole. That year, the lake did NOT winter-kill and seems to have suffered no adverse affects. I don't consider that the doomsday scenario just yet. Hold your breath and pray. The lake might survive, although I do think several of the more marginal lakes are going to be gone.
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