This should generate some discussion! A friend of mine and I were fishing pool 4 between the “Y” and the locks the other night just to check it out. My jig snagged on the bottom and when I pulled it back up it was covered in black grease. At first I thought it was just black weeks but when I pulled them off my hands looked like I had been working on an old car. And it was black grease.
I can imagine where it came from. Is the whole bottom of the channel covered with that stuff?
Did you report it to the DNR?
Good point. I have not and did not think of that. I’m not that sure they would be all that interested. Unfortunately I did not mark it on GPS.
I’m not that sure they would be all that interested. Unfortunately I did not mark it on GPS.
LOL! I don’t want to be a jerk, but maybe you should let them make that decision? I don’t think you need a gps to tell them the aprox location.
Now back to watching my own cork.
I’ve seen this stuff before. Don’t think it is grease. Did you keep a sample?
-J.
I were fishing pool 4 between the “Y” and the locks
Just lost all credibility by admitting you were fishing there in the slack. 
Did you smell your fingers?
no noticeable strong odor like you get with some weeds.
I was moreso asking if it smelled like oil.
That area you were fishing contains a fair amount of slack water MUCK.
It did not smell like oil or grease so maybe it was some sort of “muck”. I did send a note to Nick (DNR) and he thought it may have been a clay/mud mix that is very “tenacious” and “almost impossible to wash off”. He indicated that they have to use pressure washers to get it off their boats. So I guess that is all good news. Well that was an interesting little side trip!
Thanks Dewey! We all got to learn a bit here! 
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