Loch Raven Fishing Report-04/09/13

Ill have to research this but some of the other guys can chime in. As I mentioned in my fishing report from Saturday, I as well saw many dead gizzard shad floating and one area smelled fishy. My guess is a lot of these gizzard shad, as often happens with some panfish like crappie, just died after spawning... Just exhausted. Other guesses would be that in combination with the pretty drastic cold front that came in as well and/or maybe excessive runoff (e.g. From fertilizer, like maybe the golf course). The gizzard shad are probably very sensitive to such changes or stress. No wonder there are more birds over there for the easy pickings and why the fishing is off a bit.