Heard a dirty rumor

Has the grass been sprayed at Welsh? All over the lake? Had a buddy tell me that a friend of his told him the entire lake got sprayed. That true?

Don’t know about Welsh but saw a spray boat chuggin’ toward behind the bridge on Athens last Friday.

Welshole?

Well they're shutting down the PP so let's spray the freaking grass too! 😠

Did he see them spray the grass or is he just guessing? Ask him if he actually saw them spraying the grass, then get back with us.

Not sure if it was sprayed or not but I did also hear the grass was gone(at least not as much grass as there once was). I have not confirmed for myself.

I was there recently [9-22] and it's definitely not matted like it was. It's still there but just not on the surface like we are used to seeing

Did the level come up (i.e. did they start pumping from pines) again?

If so, wouldn't that impact the matting on the surface for a time?

Lake was noticeably low

They can spray it and it will come back, needs to be knocked back a little every once in a while

The only lake Ive been to that made me say there’s to much grass… and I LOVE fishing grass. Hopefully if they are spraying they have someone doing it that will knock it back but won’t wipe it out completely.

TOTALLY agree! I've said it for the last couple of years that Welsh was the one place I would love to see a little less grass. I wish they went with an acdurately estimated amount of carp vs spraying (if they actaully did that at all) but I don't think carp would live in those water temps.

From what I've heard is they sprayed the powerline right of ways leading to the power plant. Thought is the herbicide they used got into the lake and knocked the grass back. As far as pumping in water, I heard that since the plant is closing they are not gonna repair the pump that pumps the water from pines. It's an expensive repair for a plant that is closing.

Welsh does NOT NEED ANY SPRAYING. When the water temps get over 100 degrees for quite a while the grass dies off on its own.

No need to ruin the lake by spraying like they have done to so many other lakes.

They were pumping water in two days ago.

The pump is working and has been for a while now.

They are not shutting down the power plant.

But the plant will start an outage on 1 unit tomorrow until Nov 5th.

I "heard" the fish weren't biting at Welsh, so it would be better to go somewhere else.

The plant will shut down in 2028 in believe.
https://www.ktbs.com/news/coal-oper...2246af2-1fa4-11eb-9cec-0bfbe244bb2b.html

Something happened out there in July because there were dead fish floating all over the place.

Yep...its called the water at the dam was over 100 with the north end being closer to 108. A good friend was out there and sent me a video. Dead fish everywhere from end to end of the lake. Things have clearly calmed down now and I am sure in about another month or so all of the cold weather warm lake guys will be parking down to the county road to fish Welsh.

I love it when a post/statement starts with “from what I’ve heard”. Sit back because the conjecture is about to start flying. Kinda like after 32 years in the fire service whenever someone at work said “watch this” you better drop what you’re doing and watch that. Something funny(or catastrophic) was fixing to happen.

The two things that anglers hate the most, when things change and when things stay the same...

This is correct. As with all CCP (Coal Combustion Plants), they will produce less and less as they get closer to their shut down. What that means for Welsh anglers is, the water won't be as warm because the two units won't be online as much.

It makes me wonder how our state is going to adjust to the changes on how we get our electricity.

Just in the last few years - Oklaunion, Fairfield, Monticello, Hugo (dialed back significantly), Martin Lake (burning 100% PRB coal now), and Pirkey (2023 shut down), with more coming means our state will rely on natural gas and wind generation more and more. Hope we don't get another Feb 2021 again like we did this year or we are in big trouble.

Oh we're screwed. Just fact of the matter. The freeze proved that. Our electric grid thanks to ERCOT can't keep up without the CCP

PETA strikes again.