Yuuuuup, Several years ago, A couple of boats were moved from Texoma to Ray Hubbard and they found
the mussels on the boats after they were launched.

Pretty simple really. Fish eat the zebras, migrating birds eat the fish and poop happens. Zebras get moved from one waterway to another. We have Pelicans that can eat really large fish. Loons are capable of eating fairly big fish. And of course the endangered water turkeys. We already have a lake with no boat ramp 15 miles from Texoma that has them.

Prove thet cant...

As stated this is a non event. Somebody link a single paper where baitfish or predator fish had a statistically signifcant decline in relation to zebra muscle population increase. Love to read it, this is a problem for ppl, not fish

absolutely agree with this - all the hysteria around these things just didn't pan out after the first year or two.

For the record, i somehow pulled up a rock at texoma this weekend with a C-rig and it had 3 or 4 zebras attached to it, so they're still in there, but not nearly like they were a decade ago. Not sure if its the warmer temps down here or the big flathead catfish, but something is keeping them in balance after that first year of explosive growth.

Ten years later, it seems to be a total non-factor.

Have you ever heard of sarcasm? But please PROVE to me that a bird can fly miles and keep his feathers wet enough to keep the larva wet? [/quote]

Prove thet cant...

As stated this is a non event. Somebody link a single paper where baitfish or predator fish had a statistically signifcant decline in relation to zebra muscle population increase. Love to read it, this is a problem for ppl, not fish [/quote]

I think you were trying to write: Prove they can't.

The lakes were not built so you could go fishing. So the effects on fishing don't matter at all. It is the damage they do to everything else and that does matter.

Big boats. Someone must have skipped the inspection and dropped their boat in the water.

"In 2006, Texas appeared to dodge a bullet when Tim Ray, an employee of a marina in Pottsboro, found zebra mussels on a boat that had been brought from Wisconsin. In 2007 Ray again found zebra mussels on a boat from the Ohio River. Both boats were decontaminated before being put into the water.

In 2008 Marty Ulmer, an employee of a Denison marina, found zebra mussels on a boat arriving from Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. In 2009 Bobby Vaughn, an employee of another Denison marina, found zebra mussels on yet another boat from Wisconsin. Both boats were decontaminated prior to launching into Lake Texoma."

http://tpwd.texas.gov/newsmedia/releases/?req=20090421a

big deal,..just keep fishing.