Originally Posted by
fishingtim
Question for Craig,
When a fish dies in a lake instead of by fillet knife, what determines if the fish will sink to the bottom of the lake or float to the top and wash up to shore? You always see a fish or two dead up along the shoreline, but alot more fish just have to die from old age than the one or two dead ones you see. My best guess was that the fish that die naturally sink to the bottom and never are seen but the fish that die from sickness end up along the shore line blotted.
This came up talking to a buddy about the twenty some pound bass in California "Dottie" that was found on the shoreline a year or so ago. And the white bass fish kill that Cheney or Marion had several years back where fish were scattered on the shoreline.