May 28, 2008

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Fish Fry at Sunny Lake!

The fish kill at Aurora’s Sunny Lake on Tuesday seems to have been a success. City workers are cleaning up thousands and thousands of dead carp floating along the shore. The average fish that was killed was a 12 inch carp. There are a few suckers, some small catfish and some 4 inch crappie and bluegill. In adition a bout 20 large Amur are among the dead. I don’t feel these fish had any value to fishermen.
Cool weather is aiding the city employee task.  But they are a muddy mess, wading along the shoreline, gathering the fish for disposal. Where’s the “Dirty Jobs” guy?

The outlet of the lake is closed for about a week to allow the poison become inert before releasing the water downstream to the Chagrin River. The fish kill used a method approved by the EPA.

The lake will be restocked with sportfish.

by olive at2:30 PM under 12, a, average, carp, city, city goverment news, cleaning, dead, fish, inch, kill, killed, lake, success, suckers, sunny, the, thousands, tuesday, workers (Comments)


April 15, 2008

Tales From the Rust Belt

Tales From The Rust Belt

Feeding the Fish at the Linesville Spillway

The rebuilt Linesville Spillway in Pymatuning, PA is a far cry from the small, crowded attraction my folks took me to as a kid. Instead of a small outcrop of concrete on the side of the road, the area has been built up into a large area where folks can park their cars, get something to eat and buy bread to feed the unbelievable number of carp, ducks and geese that call the reservoir home.

If you are looking for someplace to take a nice little drive this summer, the spillway makes a great destination. Kids will enjoy throwing bread to the fat carp and mom and dad can relax on a bench overlooking the water. Grab a Coke and something to eat from the concession stand and you have a relaxing couple of hours.

There is plenty to do once you watch the carp crawl all over each other trying to score some bread. And if you watch the video, you will see that they literally crawl over one another for those tasty morsels.




It's about 45 minutes from Youngstown and the surrounding area. Go straight north up Route 7 to Andover, turn right on Oh 85, cross over the reservoir, turn left on Church Rd. (follow the Spillway signs because there isn't a road sign for Church Rd.) and turn left on Linesville-Hartstown Rd. The Spillway is on the right. Just look for the jumping carp.

by Mike Prelee at12:41 PM under attractions, carp, fish, linesville spillway, pymatuning, things to do