09-28-12, 11:38 PM | #1 |
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What invasive species are in your area?
Invasive species seem to be everywhere these days.
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09-29-12, 01:47 AM | #2 |
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If you ask some purists in my area, the invasive species would be bass, both largemouth and smallmouth! They aren't native to my neck of the woods, but I say fie on them. They can kiss my island-bass, lol.
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In my area, Zebra Mussles and Eurasian Milfoil are big culprits. The milfoil is why they spray our lakes every few years. Purple Loosestrife is also a big problem in our area, although I think it's beautiful to look at. Big Head card are knocking on the door they say, and of course there are a few insects as well.
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Not as much concern to bass fisherman, but Im very concerned by didymo, aka rock snot. It has been found in tennessee, an algae that just clogs free flowing rivers.
Im kinda fond of hydrilla and milfoil.
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Carp!
Did I mention CARP?
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What one person likes another dislikes,over a period of time the invasive becomes accepted,sometimes even wanted.
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Im kinda fond of hydrilla and milfoil.[/QUOTE] I'm beyond fond...I have successfully introduced (with land owners OK) milfoil in some local deep clear veggie free pits......makes a huge difference, and just gets better as time goes by. What you call the gift that keeps on giving!
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the biggest invasive in my area is JET SKIERS can't get them to go away. other than that not much eles
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Asian Carp. Guys like to arrow them, but there's not enough bow fishermen to make a dent.
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Bucket fishermen. They finally wrote up some Amish on one of my lakes.
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Quagga Mussels are a big threat out here. And the local lake on base is overflowing with those stupid asian carp.
Every so many years the EPA requires them to drain a certain percentage of the water off, up until the last time they had to drain it there wasn't a gate on the drain so they lost all the fish. Well in part of the re-stock they (whoever they is) decided to put a few carp to help with something (I can't remember what the guy told me). Little did they realize carp are like f'n rabbits and breed like none other, know they don't know what to do. Like above there are a few who go after them to eat them, but not enough people do. While out fishing in the back portion of the lake I've seen them schooled up in numbers of 30-50 (if not more) and in several different locations. I've had the damn things hit my frogs before. |
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I'd like to hear the response of a NATIVE AMERICAN.....................
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I don't feel I'm a threat to any Native Americans. I never keep any fish. Pay for a license which adds to the number of fish. Always leave the enviroment better then when I arrived. I marvel at nature and respect it at the same time.
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You missed the point entirely. NATIVE AMERICAN and INVASIVE SPECIES - I was thinking Europeans, ie: US!
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10-01-12, 04:55 PM | #15 |
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I would like to hear a response from a wooly mammoth...
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In my state lots and lots. In the water we have brown trout, rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, brook trout, striped bass, hybrid bass, common carp, grass carp, snakehead. Thats just what I can think of off the top of my head.
One specie that gets on my nerves are mimosa trees. Also bradford pears, and I'm pretty sure most grasses are too, I know johnson grass is invasive. Also house sparrows and starlings. Then there are all those feral hogs. There is some kind of beetle that is killing ash trees and that is invasive too.
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Native American...?
Wooly Mammoth...? Anaerobic bacteria...? Magma. |
10-02-12, 10:47 AM | #18 |
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The Goby. But it can be argued they've done a lot to improve the smallmouth fishery in Lake Erie.
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Yes, and utterly destroyed the daytime walleye fishery.
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I would have to say the bots and spammers are the biggest invasive species threatening my sanity right now.
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Thought I'd post some horror picks of didymo.
Hydrilla you can fish around. Carp you can shoot. Snakehead you can eat. Zebra mussels you can enjoy for what they bring to water quality. And people are us. But this stuff...changes the very nature of streams. A 1 cell organism that can be transfered on shoes, waders, or wading birds. Mostly it affects coldwater streams, so its more of a trout fishing concern, but it could possibly screw up some mixed trout/smallie water.
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in a word billy YUCK
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Yeah, that's disgusting!
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D'ya think you could coax a big smallie to bust up through that goo to smash a scum frog?
Seriously...that is some nasty looking stuff. Makes K-Y look abrasive
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Yeah, didymo sucks. We've got it around here.
As for invasive fish species, we just have brown & rainbow trout, common carp, goldfish, and grass carp. Pretty much everything else is native.
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