An actual salton sea report 4/3/12

[Yakin]

Originally Posted by vincentek9

went there same time last year.. it was hot as hell. no smell yet. but the tilapia were starting to die off. i saw HUGE boils and casted into them for nothing. chased down the schools later on and found out it was just a bunch of dying tilapia gasping for air.

That's so sad I remember so many years ago I would always read great fish reports from there and now you never hear anything but death sickness
it's just like the the reeper has walked across that water

[lowprofile]

Originally Posted by Yakin

That's so sad I remember so many years ago I would always read great fish reports from there and now you never hear anything but death sickness
it's just like the the reeper has walked across that water

i guess thats what happens to man made waterways that don't get properly taken care of. if they (dont really know who "they are" dredged it and pumped more water from the duct in there and designated a run off, maybe transplanted some type of aquatic plant to create oxygen and get the cycle going that place could boom in about 3 years.

[FishRaiden]

Heading out to the Salton Sea tomorrow with the crew. Fishing both shore & kayaks.

Should be a fun time. Hopefully the bigger Talapias are out to play with light line.

[ful-rac]

Let us know how it goes out there im thinkn about heading out there again soon myself. Good luck!

[StinkyMatt]

One of the main reasons (established by numerous studies) for the poor conditions of salton sea is the fertelizer and pestecide runoff from the surrunding farming activity.

Ask yourself where your cheap ass vegetables come from? They got no business farming in the middle of the desert. Yes, they do get three crop rotations a year but its at the cost of very expensive water and high runoff.

That place used to rock, even had some guide services that would slam some huge corvina.

Have fun out there. Stay cool.

[taggermike]

Aside from the fertilizer over load the Sea also has not outlet. It is a couple 100 feet below sealevel after all. Slightly salty ag runoff goes in and the only way water can leave is through evaporation. The salt stays behind and the salinity rises. Think the dead sea and the great salt lake. It's a matter of time. Adding more water will postpone the hyper salinity but the only way to save the Sea would be to remove the salt. Not likely. They stocked sargo, mullet, corvina, gulf croaker, and eveidently they even tried totoava. The tilapia were put in to the ag run off creeks to eat plants and insects. That may be why they are the only fish left. During years when the sea is in bad condition there is a always a population up in the creeks. When things improve they can recolonize the sea. With about unlimited space and food and thier crazey reproductive rate they can really boom in there. Mike

[FishRaiden]

Just got back from the good ol Salton Sea.

WFO Talapia most of the afternoon.

1/2-1lb fishes.

Super fun light tackle fishing on the yaks thats for sure!

Small split shot + drift was the key on the yaks.