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[Davy Crockett]

 

[deleted member]

Must be about to winter kill.

 

[guywhofishes]

Yep

 

[dean nelson]

Might be pike migrating up a creek to spawn thats still choked off by ice so like that water they try to go up and over.

 

[Brian Renville]

Yea kinda looks like rising water pushing up through the hole. Would also explain how dirty it is.

 

[Davy Crockett]

Might be pike migrating up a creek to spawn thats still choked off by ice so like that water they try to go up and over.

I'll buy that.

 

[raider]

fricken russians... now they're messing with nature...

 

[jer79]

pretty much almost every bad ass cool video I've seen on the Internet is from russia

 

[Lycanthrope]

Id guess its a low oxygen situation, they are obviously sluggish coming out of the hole and then get more active once they are exposed to the water on top of ice for a bit.

 

[LBrandt]

So whats the answer MSA?

 

[Allen]

It is low dissolved oxygen. I've seen it on places like Epping/Springbrook, Larimore dam, and in my backyard.

Remember, ice tends to come off the creeks first in the spring melt season as warm water hits them before it does the lakes. So it's highly unlikely this is something related to a spring spawn.

 

[dean nelson]

That's exactly why they would be there pike are first to spawn and often do it under the ice. the one thing that definitely points to o2 in the first one is the lack of any movement in the little fish but that could just be a fluke to. But both videos show far more water pressure then you would expect on that small of a bodie of water from just snow load so new water is probably moving in from one way or the other. Definitely seems to be a Russian thing! ;:;popcorn

https://youtu.be/H1GcOCU0rn0

 

[PrairieGhost]

They are detecting the higher oxygen coming down the hole and swim towards higher and higher oxygen. I have seen it on the Sheyenne River and other places. Usually with heavy snowpack on the ice cutting sunlight.

 

[dean nelson]

How would O2 flow down since all the water pouring out?

 

[PrairieGhost]

To me it didn't look like the water was going either direction. It looked like they made a pocket in the snow and opened a hole. The water came up and filled that. Once exposed to air it started picking up oxygen. I may not have seen what's going on with the water movement, but that's what it looked like to me. I think that's why the guy was working the auger up and down in the hole to stir in oxygen.

I have had aquatic macroinvertebrates fill a hole I drilled in ice in a semipermanent wetland with an open water center. Drill the hole and watch. That was late February early March.

I have noticed when vehicles go past my house the water flows in and out. I think that's whats going on in the first video.

 

[deleted member]

He's clearing slush from the hole with the auger so the fish can come up.

 

[Davy Crockett]

To me it didn't look like the water was going either direction. It looked like they made a pocket in the snow and opened a hole


In the first vid one of the fish came out backwards pretty fast , I'm thinking water flow lifted it out. Second vid you can see the flow.