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Re: [OM] Some casualties of Florida's freezing weather

Subject: Re: [OM] Some casualties of Florida's freezing weather
From: Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:24:49 -0500
  What type of fish are they Chuck? They look like some type of "pan fish"
(perch, crappie, red breast, etc.) but must be something unique to Florida
since all of the previous survive the winter here at the bottom of the
lake/stream. Perhaps the pond is too shallow. Too bad.

Charlie


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The pond out behind my place here in Palmetto, Florida and some of the
> 45 fish that didn't survive.  My rough guess on first discovering this
> scene was that 20-30 fish had succumbed to the cold and that none had
> survived.  The next day I did a count and was surprised to find 45 that
> hadn't made it.  Most of the fish are about 1 foot long.  Since
> reflections keep me from seeing into the entire pond I think there may
> actually be about 60.  But I was surprised to find 5 live ones where the
> day before I had seen none.  Many of the plants are also in poor
> condition.  <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Winterset_pond/index.htm>
>
> ps:  I got most of them but I was very frustrated by not being able to
> completely remove the blue sky reflections from the water with my
> polarizer in photo 2.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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