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Re: Grass spraying
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12/21/20 12:32 AM
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Littledog
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Senko; You work for TPWD dont you!!?? Come on now!! It's pretty obvious. Dont be hurt. We all like you.
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Re: Grass spraying
[Re: Dubee]
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12/21/20 12:34 AM
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Littledog
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Meanwhile; Texas has a long history of promoting private land ownership and protecting land owner rights. Think back to the huge ranches, etc. The state purposely avoids purchasing large tracts of land that potential impede private development. Texas (by proportion) has one of the smallest percentages of state or municipally owned land in the nation.
Likewise, when utility or other private entities build lakes, the tendency of the state is to be as non-restrictive as possible. Most of the lakes in Texas are not truly "public" lakes. They are lakes that private entities have granted public access to.
Water rights in Texas are HUGE dollars. Contracts around lake usage, access, and the rights to the water within are way beyond the scope of discussion here. I think (??help here if somebody knows) that TPWD and "the state" have "negotiated" access to many of these otherwise private lakes. In this negotiation, one would think there would be constraints on how the lakes were managed in consideration of various public interests. i.e. you cant eradicate weeds without mutual agreement by TPWD biologists; or something like this. It's obvious that if TPWD is negotiating the access agreements, they ain't doing it in the way we would like them to!
Protecting lakes from large scale weed eradication would require legal work and possibly legislative action. This stuff cost dollars. Without an organization that can raise dollars and sponsor these efforts, well . . . you're right where we are now.
You're an idiot Please feel free to edgamacate me. No need to get personal.
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Re: Grass spraying
[Re: Littledog]
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12/21/20 12:36 AM
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Douglas J
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Senko; You work for TPWD dont you!!?? Come on now!! It's pretty obvious. Dont be hurt. We all like you. I think he used to feed the fish at BPS
#MFGA
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Re: Grass spraying
[Re: Littledog]
#13813712
12/21/20 12:37 AM
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senko9S
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Senko; You work for TPWD dont you!!?? Come on now!! It's pretty obvious. Dont be hurt. We all like you. are you drunk or normally like this?
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Re: Grass spraying
[Re: Douglas J]
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12/21/20 12:41 AM
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Littledog
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Senko; You work for TPWD dont you!!?? Come on now!! It's pretty obvious. Dont be hurt. We all like you. I think he used to feed the fish at BPS Seems like a good flag waving Texan. Nothing wrong with that. Probably a really good fisherman.
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Re: Grass spraying
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#13813786
12/21/20 01:35 AM
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Rayzor
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The fact of the matter is that most lakes were formed for water supply. They weren't made for fishing or boating or a place to put expensive homes. The only group that seems to get any attention, though, is home owners.
My wish list is a such:
1) Control vegetation, stop eradicating it. You can't control vegetation with grass carp because you can't control fish. 2) TPWD should stop spending 75% of their time and money on a very short list of lakes.
Be safe, Rayzor 2001 Triton Tx-21/225 Mercury EFI
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Re: Grass spraying
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12/21/20 03:18 AM
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SkeeterRonnie
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I will continue to point my finger at TPWD! There are more ways to control vegetation than eradication! They are supposed to be educated enough to know this small fact. They choose the easiest route, defying years and years of efforts to increase the quality of fisheries.I am praying the newest biologists there are smart enough to realize the destruction the last group of bafoons did to fisheries!!! Please Lord!!
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Re: Grass spraying
[Re: Littledog]
#13813930
12/21/20 03:49 AM
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senko9S
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Senko; You work for TPWD dont you!!?? Come on now!! It's pretty obvious. Dont be hurt. We all like you. Sorry to bust your bubble but no.
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Re: Grass spraying
[Re: SkeeterRonnie]
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12/21/20 03:51 AM
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senko9S
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I will continue to point my finger at TPWD! There are more ways to control vegetation than eradication! They are supposed to be educated enough to know this small fact. They choose the easiest route, defying years and years of efforts to increase the quality of fisheries.I am praying the newest biologists there are smart enough to realize the destruction the last group of bafoons did to fisheries!!! Please Lord!! Still angry about cypress?
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Re: Grass spraying
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#13813946
12/21/20 03:59 AM
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361V
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The grass issue is an ongoing issue that does perplex me. The TPWD’s approach has been confusing to say the least. “All or nothing” and an apparent inability to learn from past mistakes. Something does need to be done to stop past practices(mistakes)! That said if you don’t see “anything” good that has EVER come out of TPWD after programs like share-a-lunker,the introduction of Florida strain bass...... then you are either A.Blind B.ignorant or C.you just do not know what you do not know!
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Re: Grass spraying
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12/21/20 02:15 PM
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fishnfireman
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A.F.Z.
Last edited by fishnfireman; 12/21/20 02:16 PM.
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Re: Grass spraying
[Re: Littledog]
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12/21/20 03:04 PM
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Razorback
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Old topic. Like a scratched record that keeps playing over an over.
None of you really give a $rap or you would organize and do something about it. With all the clubs, tournament circuits, etc. etc., there are plenty of folks to change all of this if you'd collectively make the effort. Heck, this forum alone has over 100,000 members. Follow the CCA model.
I've heard: "Well TPWD will look out for us. TPWD will take care of things." Total B.S. If your bass isn't inside a high fence and growing antlers, TPWD won't spend an extra cent on it. As president of our bass club I did try to do something. I talked to and wrote letters to TP&WD. Eventually I was invited to a "stakeholders meeting" on Lake Tyler. I lobbied for limited spraying. Why did we need to kill the grass around Stake Island in the middle of the lake? Why spray up near the Hwy 64 bridge where there weren't any docks? I knew when Richard Ott introduced two of the executioners who killed Conroe and said they would be helping treat the lake that we were doomed.
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Re: Grass spraying
[Re: senko9S]
#13814283
12/21/20 03:05 PM
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361V
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And please stop showing this pic! I’m done w/therapy and moved on! 😂
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Re: Grass spraying
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#13814504
12/21/20 05:41 PM
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jwcromer
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and Purtis Creek...................
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