This gets down to the nitty gritty for bass fishermen. Exotic weeds have caused lake closure, and partial lake closure in many areas. What can you, as a fisherman do to help stop the spread of exotic weeds, and preserve bass fishing? This is important for the future of our lakes, and the future of the sport!
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The Texas Lake Solutions website seems to be growing every day. There are a lot of new articles, in this article directory. If you visit the site, you will see that there is a tutorial on preparing a pond for stocking with fish, a list of major lakes in Texas by region, and of course the articles which this page lists. If you love lakes, drop in!
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The fiction about weed management in ponds and lakes in Texas, for that matter, everywhere, has grown to a point, where it now supports it’s own mythology! I want to clear out some of the weeds, and do so without muddying the water!
First, Without doubt, without argument, without room for compromise, preventing the invasion of exotic lake weeds is the very best way to solve the lake weed problem! That issue is dealt with at length in the TexPest Services Aquatic Weed Control Directory, and Preventing Exotic Aquatic Weeds, and other articles on this site. Another point on which there should be no argument, is that it would be unwise to do away with all pond and lake weed vegetation. I have however heard it set up as a straw man, by people who have a vested interest in one side of this issue. The idea seems to be, that chemical and biological vegetation managers are trying to destroy all vegetation in lakes, and poison and pollute them at the same time! It is not too hard to guess the source of this argument.
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