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Originally Posted by Blyblvrd
Hi All, I went up to the lake this weekend and saw ~footlong bass (I think) swimming on one fin, sideways on the water. It had something around its mouth but didn't look like fishing gear or guts coming out the mouth. It was alive and I could touch it with oar and it would try to swim deeper but keep floating back up.
We determined there was no gear we could remove and therefore nothing we could do so we paddled on. This was in Ash cove in Moultonborough.
As we were entering Salmon Meadow Cove we saw the same species of fish that was very recently dead, gills wide open and bloated belly. I remarked to my wife "I hope we don't see another one otherwise it's an epidemic".
Famous last words because a hundred yards later we saw a third one with the exact same condition.
We paddled to the house and locked ourselves away expecting a zombie fish apocalypse 
Anyone have any thoughts what this might be? There were fishing boats in and out of the cove all day but it was early morning. Possibly catch and release that was killing them?? |
This is probably what you seen in the second clip as mentioned by several previous respondents. Without question "White Finned Tuna" migrating from the Sargasso Sea up to the back waters of Winnipesaukee. No need to lock yourselves away from this zombie fish apocalypse. Completely normal, no need to bulldoze all the camps on the water down to the ground or lower the the water level back to what ever it was on August 1, 1652 and certainly nothing to to with bass fishing. IMHO I would be much more fearful of a "
Sharknado "attack while taking a cruise on the Mount Washington.
Salmon Meadow Cove April 29, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aVI95t1Y3A
Actually just white perch spawning, if you seen 3 of them last week, you could have spotted considerably more of them yesterday. Happens every year in all the back water coves this time of year, and yes some fish do die from this. Any fish that looks like it was mutilated was more than likely an attack from a bird of prey. They are pretty much defenseless when they are at this stage of their life-cycle.