Went to Lake Mohave Report

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[unsure][unsure]Today I witnessed several planted rainbow trout dying at Placer Cove, Lake Mohave. I arrived just after a truck dumped 2600 10.0 inch rainbows into the cove. About 300-400 didn’t make it. Between being traumatized and what looked like lack of oxygen they went belly up and died. Many lay dead on the bottom of the cove while others floated to the shore or were going in circles. Several of us local anglers worked with the trout to get them back out in the water but found that they didn’t want to live. One of the anglers watched the fish being dumped into the lake. He talked with the person doing it and he said they received this shipment of rainbows from an Oregon hatchery. Several minutes later fish started to die. Does this happen often or is this an isolated case. I have some photos I took of just a few that were dead. [unimpressed][unimpressed]



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