Grass gets in the dumb jet ski ,so land owners complain to the PROPER authorities ,I've been told that on lake cypress anyways.

Because it's no fun to drive your jet ski or wakeboard/ski boat out in the deeper water where there's no grass. No, you have to be able to run it up in the backs of the coves and along the banks where the grass...and fishermen...are.

I was fishing Jacksonville one day 15 or so years ago. I finally found one little cove that had hydrilla in it and immediately caught a few bass. As I got near a boat dock toward the back half there was a lady who looked like she was in her mid to late 80s, maybe 90, out on her dock. She asked me if I had caught anything and I told her I hadn't until I got into her cove where there was some grass. She said, "Yeah, I'm going to call the city and complain about this hydrilla. They were supposed to have killed it all the last time. How can you swim with that sutff in here?"

I could only wonder to myself when the last time was that she actually swam.

One TPWD biologist I spoke with a few weeks ago was concerned about the dead reeds at Fayette too. He doesn't think LCRA treated it to eradicate it. There was even some discussion to gather samples of root balls to test for some type of disease. I don't know if they will. That wasn't clear. LCRA needs to get a permit from TPWD to do any control. The biologist said no permit was filed that he knew of.

I hope I understood what he told me. I wouldn't want to mislead anyone. He and I are in the same bass club so he too wants the fishing to be good for personal reasons!

I don't know this but just throwing this out. Is it possible for some vegetation to have natural up and down years? I know such cycles occur in the animal kingdom. (Not including man made controls such as treating, or adding grass carp.)

Purtis was a fantastic fishing lake for big bass before the grass carp. Maybe I am wrong but it seems to me the main purpose for Purtis is fishing and duck hunting. I don't get it!

Also thought it was suspicious the year the grass died on Fork, as I remember, was the year it was hit with LMBV. I might be remembering wrong but kill all the weeds in a pond all at once and watch the fish float to the top!

There is something wrong at Fayette, and I wish LCRA or TP&W would initiate a study to find out what. Crappie were stocked in Fayette, yet none have been caught in the last 25 years, channel catfish haven't had a successful spawn for a long time, the average fish is now about 9 pounds with NO small fish caught by fishermen or TP&W sampling, blue catfish were stocked and there hasn't been a blue caught in years, not even by the best guides, or TP&W.. Now the grass and reeds have disappeared. Something just ain't right.