12-03-2013, 05:58 PM
[#0000FF]I can attest that the fuzzy fungus thing has been an annual post-spawn thing on the lower Provo for decades. It showed up every fall going clear back to the early 60's...when I first fished that stretch of river. Broke my young angler's heart to see some of the huge browns that lived there in those days...covered with the crud. Found one dying fish over 30 inches still flopping next to shore...with hardly any skin surface not covered over. I could smell it before I saw it. Smelled like it had already been dead a week.
I too caught a lot of big whitefish in the river...both above and below the old trestle. But I cannot remember ever seeing whitefish or rainbows with the same fungus as the browns.
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I too caught a lot of big whitefish in the river...both above and below the old trestle. But I cannot remember ever seeing whitefish or rainbows with the same fungus as the browns.
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