#245589 - 06/04/04 10:32 AM
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Loc: Edmonds
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There are no fish in the Cow. Don't waste your time and gas.
See you there.
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#245590 - 06/04/04 03:50 PM
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Registered: 03/31/04
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Loc: Toledo Wa.
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Originally posted by RK43: There are no fish in the Cow. Don't waste your time and gas.
See you there. :D
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#245592 - 06/05/04 06:15 PM
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Registered: 11/23/01
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Loc: rowers seat
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filamentous algae huh? so that's what that stuff is. I was thinking it had something to do with the Cotton Wood trees, since it's so fiberous.
All I know it's bad this year, really bad...
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#245593 - 06/06/04 10:48 PM
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Registered: 09/06/03
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Loc: Tacoma, WA
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Fished it last weekend and the only fish I saw hooked at blue creek were w/8-10' leaders and #4 hooks. I'll bet it was their "low water technique" After enough of that we pushed off of the bar and drifted down. Did manage one nice 9lb cromer w/ a plug. But other then that didn't see any.
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#245596 - 06/08/04 12:37 AM
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Registered: 09/06/03
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Loc: Tacoma, WA
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Im not saying everyone all the time catching fish is flossing. The four guys I saw hooking fish had super long leaders. I fished 4-6's, compared to their 8-12'ers. Sorry for the confusion.
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#245598 - 06/08/04 01:54 PM
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Spawner
Registered: 04/30/99
Posts: 534
Loc: Lake Forest Dark, Wa
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This sounds like the stuff that seems to pile up along the bottom every summer just below the confluence of the Sultan River and the Sky. The City's sewer outfall is located there as well and I hate to say it but the stuff lookes like old tolilet paper fibers...YUCK! BD
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#245601 - 06/08/04 06:25 PM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 03/08/99
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Sorry fellas.......it is indeed fillamentous algae as Salmo mentions. we have the same crap here on the Wynoochee every June/mid-July. It seems to be worse the past decade locally. Warm-water, above average sunny days(mild spring) and high nutrient loads all contribute. The algae's life cycle seems to endure 2-3 months before dying off. Some years it appears mid-June; other years, like this year, it started showing in early may......again, locally. I attribute it to our warm, mild spring. I count the days waiting for the stuff to die off (and it will) so I can drift a bait without reeling in a foot of "snot" attached to my rig.......probably a good time frame to go bobber and jig. You guys all mention cottonwoods but I can't help but wonder if it's as simple as cow poop in unchecked/unfenced riverside pastures contributing to a high nutrient load? Whatever the case, it is indeed a pain in the arse.
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#245602 - 06/08/04 07:03 PM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/07/99
Posts: 2691
Loc: Yelmish
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i always thought it was cottonwood junk. it's not really slimy at all, it just looks like it when it's wet. just seems like cotton balls floating down the river
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#245603 - 06/08/04 10:42 PM
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Registered: 12/06/00
Posts: 345
Loc: Tacoma, WA,
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I'm sticking with cotton wood seed that has sunk and floats suspended until it's saturated enough and than rolls along the bottom and collects that nice puke green look. If you fish the faster water there is a minimal amount of it . The water temps last time I checked were 48 - 49 degrees quite a bit colder than July temps. Last year was the first year it was a real pain in the a** on the Cow that I can recall.
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#245604 - 06/09/04 01:24 AM
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Registered: 11/24/03
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Filamentous algal bloom, no doubt. Flares up with any imbalance in nutrient load, low flows, warm flows.
The Wynoochee post was right on. This "toilet paper" stuff even happens in Alaska. Anybody fish the early run kings on the Kenai the first two weeks of June in 2001. Couldn't keep a back- trolled/bounced line in the water more than two minutes. One big Killey dump mid-month took care of it in a hurry.
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#245605 - 06/09/04 12:04 PM
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Juvenille at Sea
Registered: 12/03/02
Posts: 108
Loc: Seattle Wa
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I'm probably just another Know-It-All High School Biology teacher here, but.....
The #1 cause of abnormal algae blooms is nutrient inbalance and the #1 cause of nutrient imbalance is the inorganic fertilizers we use.
It all runs off of your lawn/crops sooner or later and it all winds up in the rivers....where it causes that green slimy s*@t we all hate.
Cause and Effect
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#245606 - 06/09/04 02:57 PM
Re: Cowlitz
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Returning Adult
Registered: 03/31/04
Posts: 347
Loc: Toledo Wa.
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Gottago scent you are a teacher can you come down and get some samples and test them to end this arguement.
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#245607 - 06/09/04 10:45 PM
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Fry
Registered: 04/04/03
Posts: 28
Loc: Bellevue
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I was on the Cow on Monday and experienced the gobs of unsightly wet toilet paper coming down the river. It definetly made for an unpleasant experience and resulted in alot of down time in having to clean off your hook every cast. Cotton Seed...NOT. This is definitely a biological growth. If you look at the river bottom every rock is covered with this snotty fibrous grayish white toilet paper slime. Undoubtedly the cause behind this is increased nutrient loading into the river (phosphorous & nitrogen). Probably someone's septic tank is leaching into the river upstream. I hope they locate the source and put a stop to it. In the mean time the Cowlitz may come to be know as the "River of Snot."
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