"Mike Getz" wrote in message
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I've never seem mats of it, only clumps attached to weeds and other items
in the water even when catching a fish, only small clumps. I'll guess the
"strands" are about 4-6 inches long.

This site has a pic that's close to what I see, I don't have it this bad
though...

http://www.duluthstreams.org/underst...ilamentous.jpg

It seems that a lot depends on if there's current flow or not as to how much
it clumps up. I've found in as you describe, but then it seems to be less
concentrated if it's on the main lake or in a river where there's water
movement.

There's one drainage lake I fish that had "clouds" of the stuff ten to
fifteen feet across and probably three feet thick!
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