Good stuff! Thanks!!

To be honest, I thought the same thing. The fishermen could probably implant the hydrilla. But, the question is why isn't it growing in lakes that have had it? Seems the poison is settling on bottom and making the soil bad for anything to grow.

There hasn't been any hydrilla in the lake since I bought the house but one thing I would note, Our house is on the main lake beside a point. When we first started going there that point, for a long way out into the lake was soft, silt and sand bottom. We used to beach the boat there and the kids would play all up and down the point. As everyone knows we've had significant up and down years with our water level. What most don't realize is when we have those big moves up and they open the gates we get crazy amounts of current, we can see it around our dock. That point no longer has any sand or silt on it, it's 100% hard clay, which I don't think anything will root in. I don't know if we lost that sand/silt to the current, or it washed away when the lake was so low, but the bottom is certainly different there and around our dock that what it was 15-17 years ago. Just my observation.

Biggest problem I saw was the lack of oversight of the spray contractors. They sprayed a ton of areas on toledo that they 100 percent shouldn't have. As in main lake haygrass mats. Tpw confirmed that as well.

Sure seems like a good time to toss a bunch of seeds out at fork to get some type of grass growing. Certainly there is something someone could seed that will take hold and help prevent the massive erosion of shoreline as well as give the bait somewhere to hide and reproduce.

Id buy a big bag of duckweed seed if legal and available or coontail or potato weed, alligator grass seed or whatever. Best time to plant seed is when the lake bottom is exposed in the muck areas like right now. Wonder if there is aquatic grass seed the TPW would be ok with that grow good at Fork, what those types are, and where to purchase in bulk.

So it was stated in the video that Hydrilla from the north would help with the growth and spread of hydrilla but is an invasives species. Who determines what is an invasive species? Is it TPW? Are they making any attempt to get it removed from the list? Not trying to sound overly negative but when it comes to aquatic plants in TX lakes there is a lot of talk from TPW but the only action we seem to hear about is spray and then spray some more.

It sounds crazy that we would put any kind of poison in our water supply. That’s crazy crazy crazy. TPWD is funded by tax money. We pay taxes. It sounds like we need to ask our governor, senators and reps about the issue. Focus the issue on poisoning the water NOT about bass fishing.

+1000. The focus should be outlawing the poisoning of our water and fish. TPWD should be all about that as well because they are paid to protect the resources, not just eliminate salvania. There are better ways than poisoning our fish that people eat and water people use.

Yep they killed Purtis Creek and that was after they killed Conroe for many years and they did not learn from that. After Purtis creek was Fork, killing grass.

They DON'T CARE......its just a job to them.

Just curious how many on here have seen a lake with salvinia that has gone untreated?
And for those worried about the chemicals hurting your water, chemical spray is a very minor pollutant compared to many other things that go in our lakes. Despite what tv lawyers tell you, herbicides are not as bad as you might imagine. Most of us eat food every day that has been exposed to some kind of pesticide or herbicide. Contractor application control is the main problem. If someone takes enough care treatments are effective and relatively harmless to non-target plants.

Does anyone have a problem with the guilty party being the “expert witness” in his own trial? Clickbait

time load them livewells up with hydrilla and spread it around

I won't argue that the Contractor application control is the main problem, the real question is why isn't the control being done? The contractor is suppose to have approval from the TPWD. Take a look at the approved aquatic vegetation treatment proposal's and see what is being approved at some of the lakes. The one that really sticks out to me is Murvaul which I have not seen much Giant Salvinia on. TPWD approved 5 different chemicals for 600 acres each plus weevil on it. I will admit to not know much about how these chemical work together but it seems to be a bit high for a lake that is only 3,820 acres. I got this data from https://tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/water/environconcerns/nuisance_plants/treat_proposals.phtml

The problem is, the smaller the lake, the faster Salvinia can completely cover. They have to be extremely aggressive to knock it back on those small lakes, like they did with Athens.