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Nope, I was at "work" so I just took a few minutes to photograph.
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Last years low point was about 7 ft higher than you see it in this picture. Last year we ice fished the main basin you see at the bottom of the photo and the water was 15 ft deep so that means it's now 7-8 ft deep. The bottom of the outlet canal is about 1 foot out of water, so since the last water they could draw for irrigation nearly 1 foot of water has evaporated and/or been absorbed into the ground. Precious little is comming in only from spring seeps.
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[#ff0000]Puts a tear in my eye, almost as bad as from Chesterfield drying up. [/#ff0000]
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OK call my stupid, I have never fished Newton. Are they just all dieing for the low water levels or is there something going on there?
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Possible issues here include high water temps, low oxygen levels, intolerable pH levels, maybe something else. The strange thing is that I saw no crappie or musky among the dead and I only saw two dead catfish. I know crappie and cats are fairly tolerant of poor water quality. I don't know about musky. Shortly after the kill, the weather turned cooler which may have reduced the kill somewhat. All the dead fish on the shore amount to only a small percentage of the total population in the (what's left) lake.
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] Here is a collection of photos I took last week at Newton Res. The bass is about 17", the catfish in the upper left corner was about 26", and countless perch (bottom right). As yet, it's not as bleak as it appears, there were numbers of fish jumping and swirling the surface. But it looks very bad for ice up if more water doesn't come in soon.
