agreed.. Rich..
There are several types like eel grass, duckweed, peppergrass that produce
just as well as hydrilla, when the hydrilla isn't choking it out.

I have been on Lakes in Florida that you cant even launch on when the
hydrilla gets high. A few years ago Walk-in-water was completley choked out,
sure plenty of fish but with no control and you have serious issues, like
not being able to navigate the waterway. The muck it creates to start with
is an issue, and when it decomposes after dying off it takes the oxygen out
of the area. Hydrilla is little more than pyrrhic victory in a water way, if
left unchecked it chokes the waterway so you can't fish and eventually
destroyes it, or it is controlled which is expensive to the state and
eventually they will eliminate it all if they can to reduce budgets.

Every few years our lakes in Florida have to be drained and raked to remove
the muck left behind after the hydrilla has died off in only a few short
years usually 4 or 5. The muck is black which makes our already hot water
even hotter, sure it's nice in the winter for the fish, but its heck in the
summer. I catch a lot of fish out of Hydrilla, nice fish at that but I think
given the chance I would trade it for a native species that will also hold
fish.

just my $0.02

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Chuck Coger

"RichZ" wrote in message
...
Go-bassn wrote:
There's no better
nursery for young bass than a hydrilla bed, few comparable forms of
cover
for adult bass,


Water chestnut.

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