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Sewage plant mishap kills trout in Dog River
A chemical release by a municipal sewage plant is being blamed for killing a significant number of fish last week on one of Vermont's premier wild trout streams.
Fish were killed on more than a half-mile stretch of the Dog River below the Northfield sewage treatment plant. An angler alerted state fisheries biologist of dead fish Monday afternoon.
According to Northfield Village Manager Charles Morse, an infusion of chlorine was accidentally leaked into the Dog River from the sewage treatment plant as work was being done to upgrade the facility's chlorinating system.
"We knew we released chlorine, but we didn't detect a problem until later on," Morse said. "We're upset that we killed fish, obviously; we try to be as environmentally conscious as we can be."
Morse said the spill affected a stretch of river about 0.6 of a mile long, from below the sewage plant to the mouth of Cox Brook, a major tributary of the Dog.
'Big Lake' fishing remains steady
Little has changed on the 'Big Lake' this week, as limit catches of king salmon, along with an occasional lake trout and steelhead, remain common. Although a few nice catches were reported between Holland and Grand Haven, the better fishing has been near Muskegon, White Lake, Pentwater, Ludington and Manistee. Most of the fish are being taken 40-70 feet down, but with an east wind, that could quickly change. Everyone seems to have a favorite spoon or fly, but some of the more productive patterns have been the Moonshine Lures in Flounder-Pounder or Spitfire, mixed veggies, Natural Born Killer (NBK) and the blue or green dolphin. Flasher-fly combos also have been effective with Pickled Sunshine, Snow Ghost and Little Bride being popular color patterns. Downriggers have been used effectively in deep water, but lead-core, wire line and Dipsy/Slide Divers can be used when the boat traffic isn't heavy.
Drought-hit trout rescued
LOW water levels and high temperatures have seriously affected wild brown trout in two south Wiltshire rivers, and the distressed fish have had to be rescued by Environment Agency staff. A thousand brown trout have been removed from the River Nadder, near Tisbury, and moved downstream to deeper water, while a dozen trout were rescued from Nine Mile River - a tributary of the Avon, near Bulford - last Wednesday, and moved to the main river. Environment Agency staff went to the River Nadder, upstream of Fonthill Lake, after being alerted by a river keeper that a large number of trout were in a distressed state. The fish were netted and transported downstream, where the water was deeper. .
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