Abundant rain leads to local fish kill

Striper fishermen likely will see the downside of the hot, rainy summer for another month or more, as the rain that has saturated the river basin also has killed many of the lake’s largest striped bass. Large dead stripers and blueback herring have been seen floating on the lake and washing up on the banks of the lake for more than a month, and Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources officials attribute the fish kill to a depletion of the striper’s habitat due to the abundance of rain in the area this summer.