Weed Treatment Chemicials.

[dartag]

We fished Lake Oakland today with our Tuesday Morning event.   You could tell the lake had been treated with all the dead stinky weeds floating around.   I went to the South end of the lake and the whole bay was Lime Green with something in the water.     I could see the yellow signs on the shore but decided to put my live well on Recirc and get out of there. 

Don't know what they spray but anyone have an idea of what chemical that looks like that.

[djkimmel]

It's a win-win for chemical poison companies. They pay them a bunch of money to kill all the 'bad weeds.' Because many lakes are loaded with nutrients (also courtesy of riparians) something will find a way to use them. Usually means algae blooms immediately following the crash of the previous aquatic plants. So the chemical poison companies return most likely with copper sulfate to combat the algae blooms.

We can only hope the starry stonewort doesn't find a way in because it seems like that invasive may be propagating in Michigan more than anywhere else because of all of the weed treatments opening the way by removing the 'competition' first.

Overtreating aquatic plants is really a lose-lose more often than not. And NOONE is responsible for rehabilitating the 'good weeds' back after they kill the 'bad weeds.' Hence the additional income to the chemical poisoners for repeated trips back to the lake...

"Will the circle,
be unbroken?" Sing it with me...

[Rangerman]

If they want to get rid of the weed just add sterile grass crap Our fishermen like the grass and weeds but the power co (Duke Power) and high end home owners don't.  They add grass crap each year here on Norman and other local lakes it gets most of it out.  Hell those grass crap will eat a Mountain Dew bottle if its green.  I guess that is the lesser of the evils to getting rid of the grass.  NC State Law prohibits using chemicals to any lake that is used for drinking water., and most of them are Norman has 520 miles of shoreline, and hard to find grass. The years they  cuts back on the number of grass carp the grass starts coming back. 

[djkimmel]

They used to do limited stocking of 'sterile' (triploid) grass carp here but with the campaign against Asian carp they don't want to have anything to do with any of them. Also, everyone has found 'sterile' grass carp are not always sterile. It's kind of crazy in this day and age to introduce an exotic to try to combat another exotic. It's like we never learn...

[Rangerman]

A horse of another color they are better than the snake oil added to lakes.

[dartag]

Drove from my house to Sault St Marie.    I think I counted 6 lakes along I-75 with Yellow Signs along the shore.   Then around Houghton Lake I saw a small Whaler type boat with spray equipment on it.   They are everywhere. 

[Rangerman]

Death of the Lakes Snake Oil does nothing but kill grass, fish and people in the drinking water. Ask in Vietnam Vet about Agent Orange!!!  Killing more than the Viet Cong!