tullibee die off

[grizkid]

went out yesterday and noticed at least 100 dead tulbees floating i know they don't do well in warm water but the water temp was only 74 or 75 degrees could something else be causing this or is it just water temp benn to high for to long.

[Get'n Jiggy]

It's really pretty common in Aug. on The Big Pond.

[northender]

Very small die off this year compared to years back. The water never gets warmer than it is now at Mille Lacs. 75 is high.

[coombia21]

Talked to th DNR officer in garrison at the landing, he said that the water got so hot last week that atmosphere that the fish were in lost its O2 and thats why they died off.

[TRZ II]

Those tullibee are good eats! i hope they don't have a die off that is too bad, maybe the DNR will restore them to no limit since it was a record catch last year.

[chris63]

They make good eats as far as pike bait too.They do work great for "predator tip up food"c63

[TRZ II]

I used several of them on tip ups last year, the smaller ones were perfect size, like 7 inches, but those ones were hard too catch they have tiny mouths. Hopefully this record hatch will live to maturity and there will be no limit. I want to smoke alot of them this year hopefully there was not a big die off, I did not see any on labor day weekend.