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Location: Chicago, IL | FYI - for those who fish Lac Courte Oreilles in the Hayward area.
I am vice president of VHA and just received this memo from COLA.
Please be advised that Dale Dressel and Northern Aquatic Services will be treating approximately. seven acres of Curly Leaf Pond weed in Musky Bay possibly as soon as this week or next.
COLA and VHA have this joint effort through the proper permits and grants. Permits were issued by the DNR in middle April for treatment. GPS coordinates show the infected areas to be at the mouth of the West Cranberry marsh on the South west corner of Musky Bay and all along the South shore of the Victory Heights Peninsula.
Affected areas are approximately. 50-100 yards from the shoreline.
Please keep boat activity to a minimum throughout Musky Bay to insure the treated area does not get churned up or spread through with prop activity. Please let guests know and if you see someone on the water please let them know as well.
This treatment is in it's first year and we will have to monitor its progress and keep treating for as much as five years or more.
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| That is my home away from home water. How much do you feel this will help musky bay? Are there plans to do anything in Stuckey bay as well? Has the farmer using musky bay agreed to lower the dischage levels to cooperate with those concerned with the fishery? I am not a COLA member. It is my uncle's home so I rarely get this type of info. I fish LCO most of the late summer and fall. Thanks in advnce for any additional info.
Tom |
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| Can bouys be put up to prevent or lowwer traffic especially with Memorial day coming. Something COLA may wat to consider or post signs at launches. Just a thought. |
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Location: Chicago, IL | Tom,
It should definately help musky bay out in the long run.
It is part of an overall effort to restore musky bay to a viable spawning area.
Like it was in the past.
I am not aware of any plans for Stuckey Bay.
We, VHA will be posting a sign at the Victory Heights launch along with some volunteers at the ramp explaining the situation to people.
In addition this information is being conveyed to all of the homeowners on the peninsula
There is on going litigation with the owner of the cranberry marsh.
I like your idea of buoys marking the area to reduce boat traffic.
I will know more once I get up there next week end. |
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Location: Hudson, WI | I am planning a trip up there over the 4th of July. Never fished the lake. Will the treatments pretty much rule out fishing in Musky Bay? I would think they would be more active on deeper weedlines then, but I won't know til I get there. Will the weeds be growing back by then? |
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Location: Chicago, IL | moltisanti-
the treatment will have taken effect by then and you will be okay to fish in the bay if you want
hopefully the pond weed doesn't grow back, but there is plenty of other weed cover in there to fish
i don't usually spend much time fishing musky bay that time of year, but if you want to catch a bunch of hammer handle pike....... put on a spinner bait or a johnson silver minnow and have at it.
it is loaded with them
good luck
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| And take them home with you (the pike that is). |
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| Just curious - does treatment really work?
Here in MN metro we have lots of lakes with pondweed and some used to get sprayed/treated and I thought most programs were stopped because they didn't work. The pondweed dies on it's own by the 2nd-3rd week of June.
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Location: Davenport, IA | Spraying curly leaf pond weed in Illinois destroys fishing until fall. On of my local lakes gets treatment in a few areas and the lake goes from over 12' of visibility to less than 6" within a week. It stays green until late fall at the earliest. A couple years ago hundreds or possibly thousands of crappies showed up dead after this. I found some dead catfish and bluegills with my underwater camera too. |
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| Schuler, do you believe it was from the treatment that the fish showed up deceased? I know in musky bay that fish show up dead every year. This year a friend of mine fished the deep hole in the middle of Musky bay. He used his underwater camera to see if there were any fish there, but only found hundreds of dead panfish/gamefish including muskies. Some of our local biologists believe it could be from chemicals used for lawns/phosphorus from an adjacent cranberry marsh. What do some of you think? Is this a good idea or another harmful tactic used on our waters? |
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Location: New Brighton, MN | My home lake has really bad curly leaf pond weed. It's coming up pretty fast right now in the northern bay. I believe the main concern is the chemical it releases when it dies off.. (phosphorus or nitrogen?) whatever it is, it promotes algae blooms. Our lake association is considering treating the lake, but there is alot of skepticism on both sides. I would love to hear input on either side of this one, as the pondweed and algae blooms are a huge problem with our lake in the last 6 or so years.
Thanks,
Willis |
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Lac Courte Oreilles- curly leaf pond weed