03-26-2008, 05:02 PM
Having worked with fire retardant on fires for over 33 years, the fire retardant you are talking about has to be dropped right in the water to affect the fish and/or run off into it immediately. The retardant dropped last year was on the east side of the road and not into the resevoir. Once it is dropped, the lasting effect is short lived and to get to the resevoir in masses your talking about to affect the fish is nill. We have had no run off right after it was dropped in August to get to the water there. And the distance it would of had to go would have disipated it so much that it would havce been negligable by the time it got to the resevoir. So, I highly doubt it is do to that, but more likely the chemicals, etc used in surrounding fields and/or other issues to raise the PH if it is in fact that. I would be betting on low oxygen levels do to the thickness of the ice. Just holes in the ice wont oxygenate the water, has to turn over and put oxygen in the water such as wave action or by artificial means like F&G has done on Henerys res in past years.
But, I do hope it is resolved even though I've never fished it.
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But, I do hope it is resolved even though I've never fished it.
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