Our group took a day trip to beautiful lake Lenore. We fished from 9AM through 4PM with a combination of fly and hardware tackle and noticed typical amounts of algae in the water. There were a few large fish feeding on surface critters and such. We landed one 24 incher sporting full spawn color 1/4 mile north of the fish trap on the east side just a stone's throw off of the beach.

The bite was dismal aside from that great looking fish and we decided to investigate the fish trap / creek to determine if there were many fish holding in the trap area as they normally do this time of year.

Unfortunately there has been another fish kill or so it seems. There are over one hundred dead rotting Lohantans dried up or floating in the trap area. The water flow coming out of the creek is but a trickle. My guess is that the fish died to the water feature that's fed from the other side of the highway may either be clogged up or the water source has diminished. No living fish were seen entering or leaving the trap area during our visit.

It was a sad sight to see all of those fish dead and rotting. The smell stuck with you for awhile after leaving the site.

We left the north and headed to the irrigation pumps on the south end next to the big rock and noticed the same smell but no dead fish. There was a thick crust of some sort of rotting plant life or algae congealed near where the pumps suck from the lake.

We identified a hand full of large healthy fish in the pool near the pumps, but decided to call our trip and go home early because of what we had seen.

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