For the members that live on or fish a lake a lot that had hydrilla and the state sprayed it. How many years after they killed it did it take to start growing back?

Honest answer....I've seen one lake where they sprayed it and it took 3-4 years for it to resurface. It was sprayed again and that about did it. Granted that was a smaller lake than we have around here, so take that into consideration.

5-10 years if it's completely eradicated by the treatment, depending on several variables. Much sooner if the treatment was incomplete or ineffective.

I was out there Friday.. They did a good job of spraying the couple of areas, So well in fact that it killed 95% of the whole lakes grass. At least the areas i ran to and from. Did find a few clumps of it, but nothing like what i found even 3 months ago..

Yep and it is still dying in some of those spots. They told us they would not kill it all that only around ramps and swimming area at the park on the north shore.
Found out since then they sprayed 500 acres of grass! It is a sad deal, this old lake doesn’t have much cover and it will go down hill in the next few years.

If "they" are spraying an area of a lake that you're fishing. get ready for the entire lake to be ruined for a looooong time. 10+ years.

Yay TPWD doing what they do best.

The question is how do we stop this? There has to be a way to tie the hands of TPWD or get the use of chemicals stopped.

i wish ken smiths video would have been true but i figured it wouldn't be the truth

seems those people have no problem with deception

I’ve said this many times on here… you must first get hydrilla removed from the invasive species list. As long as it’s designated as such we don’t have a leg to stand on.

Yup and as long as the money is living around these lakes that don't want grass, you won't have any....

That's why they don't spray Amistad------no lake front houses !

No lake houses on Joe Pool and they sprayed just "2 small sections" around the marinas in about 2009. Lake has never been the same for hydrilla since. It didn't help that some boat slip customers and/or employees associated with the marinas were also pouring herbicide into the lake too.