tomriker said:
we are down there ALL the time in the winter/spring/summer im sure if there were a bunch dying we'd see em floating around before the eagles or catfish got em. sorry brown i've already got half a dozen people lined up to take fishing for now but ill let ya know if anything opens up
You might not actually see evidence of dead fish, unless they died in very shallow water relatively rcently to your seeing them. Dead fish don't float for long, if at all. Just like dead humans, they tend to sink to the bottom. If you've ever gone fishing toward the tail end of salmon or steelhead fishing, you'll notice that the dead fish are just sitting there among the rocks or wood on the river bottom - not bobbing around like so many fleshy, well, bobbers.
The fish are probably there, just in the deeper hiding places.