Grass (Conspiracy)??

[Tn bullet]

Beauty of the grass if it's here you can choose to stay in deeper water and wakeboard till you can't hold a rope anymore and for the pleasure boaters you speak of they can do the same thing in the deeper water what about the people that love fishing grass ask yourself is it fair to kill it all and those have none! Your right it's everyone's lake last time I checked Ive never seen grass mats in the river channel it matts generally in shallower water I think it helps and protects idiot that think if there is water I can run my boat helps them not park it on a sand bar! Again why not have the best of both worlds

 

[hawgdoggie]

Yeah but that kinda takes the fun out of watching idiots don't ya think .

 

[Blue76]

hawgdoggie - 7/29/2017 10:11 AM

It's simply agree to disagree, the grass is a mess every year. It hinders my and others style of fishing . It clogs up passage channels, docks , mats all the way out to deeper water nobody thinks about the pleasure boaters either . It's all of our lake to use , whether I'm yak fishing or out with my boys wakeboarding . I'm on the water every weekend in one or the other of my boats . I'll either be in a camo green Jackson yak or a lime green and black wake setter please feel free to stop and talk I'm a pretty pleasant dude !

I also kayak fish almost as much as I use my bass boat. I love the grass in my kayak. It keeps the wind from blowing me around nad I know if I am in the grass I won't get run over by a wake boat or one of those huge cruisers on the lake. Dragging a frog or a weightless worm across the grass from the kayak is a blast.

It is strange to me how polarizing the grass is. Plenty of open water for rec users and the grass is only topped out for a short part of the year so I can't be that much of a problem. The lower end doesn't even have much grass ever.

 

[Bucksbass]

Saw large sections of grass mats floating down the main river channel today. In between the mats was long pieces of hydrilla and milfoil. It was everywhere. For some reason it had broken loose at the root and was floating on down.

 

[Hook1]

Well that's funny isn't it? It must be from below hwy60 because apparently Mother Nature stops there. I've been told there's grass mats everywhere above Hiwasse island in 10-12 FOW. Explain why its growing so well up there but not below 60 bridge.

 

[SlabDog]

Hook1 - 7/31/2017 9:51 AM Well that's funny isn't it? It must be from below hwy60 because apparently Mother Nature stops there. I've been told there's grass mats everywhere above Hiwasse island in 10-12 FOW. Explain why its growing so well up there but not below 60 bridge.

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Now that's an excellent question. The area you are talking about has had the same high water flow, stained water, cooler water, cloudy days and cooler weather as the rest of Chickamauga. They are spraying and killing the grass people and they are laughing about it. As usual "they" are the people that own Chattanooga, the lake front owners are the people with money and power. They don't want to share the lake. They feel they own it and can do what they want. It's always been that way here.</p>

 

[FirstLight]

SlabDog - 7/31/2017 9:45 AM

Hook1 - 7/31/2017 9:51 AM Well that's funny isn't it? It must be from below hwy60 because apparently Mother Nature stops there. I've been told there's grass mats everywhere above Hiwasse island in 10-12 FOW. Explain why its growing so well up there but not below 60 bridge.

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Now that's an excellent question. The area you are talking about has had the same high water flow, stained water, cooler water, cloudy days and cooler weather as the rest of Chickamauga. They are spraying and killing the grass people and they are laughing about it. As usual "they" are the people that own Chattanooga, the lake front owners are the people with money and power. They don't want to share the lake. They feel they own it and can do what they want. It's always been that way here. </p>

Thats what I remember from the 80's. I was a kid but I remember the talk that the big money lobby won the debate and there went the grass....

 

[RRB32]

They have been spraying around Dayton as well.. Saw some recent signs yesterday in Mud Creek above Richland yesterday around docks and ramps dated July 28th. Been spraying in Richland too.

 

[rusty50576]

RRB32 - 7/31/2017 1:21 PM

They have been spraying around Dayton as well.. Saw some recent signs yesterday in Mud Creek above Richland yesterday around docks and ramps dated July 28th. Been spraying in Richland too.

I thought Dayton was supposed to save us!

 

[Hook1]

The TDEC will allow docks, swimming areas, boat ramps to be sprayed but it's supposed to stop there. They issued a statewide permit that's why Aquatic Services is seen around docks and stuff.

 

[ThreeHourTour]

Took the boy fishing on the bank this morning. There was a sign posted stating they sprayed on the 28th. This was at the fishing pier on Soddy Lake. Why would you spray a fishing pier?????

 

[Springmillvol]

May have already been posted by saw the signs this evening @ HBSP saying it had been treated.

 

[Pointer 78]

Launched out of Dry Branch yesterday and fished there, Sale Creek, and shallow sloughs along the river. Almost everywhere we went we found grass. Green and healthy. It's true though that the growth is way behind prior years. I agree with Churls.......high dirty water with stronger river currents this past spring is the culprit.

 

[Kayak Medic]

On Saturday morning, 7/29 there was an airboat rigged for spraying putting in at CFP. They ran around the bay spraying. Later in the day there were red herbacide notices stapled to the dock. I wish I had gotten a picture of the notice but my phone was on the boat.

 

[toyota4x4h]

I think they are killing it on purpose regardless of the impact on the fishery and the income it brings to the area. They care more about rich homeowners and leisure boaters. Does that junk not affect the fish and eating them?

 

[TNTall]

Herbicide is not native either.

Funny how a kayak fisherman is the one saying he can't get through the grass. A bass boat is much more restricted by it, but those bass fishermen aren't complaining.

 

[Kayak Medic]

TNtall where was I complaining about the grass? I was simply adding my two cents worth to the discussion about seeing boats spraying.

I fish from a kayak specifically so that I can get where the bass boats can't get.

 

[TNTall]

Kayak Medic - 8/1/2017 10:56 AM

TNtall where was I complaining about the grass? I was simply adding my two cents worth to the discussion about seeing boats spraying.

I fish from a kayak specifically so that I can get where the bass boats can't get.

Sorry KM. No I was referring to Hawgdoggie.

 

[Kayak Medic]

Ok cool. Sorry for my rant then!

 

[FirstLight]

I drove old highway 41 from Tiftonia down past HaleTown to a prebid this morning and the grass has topped out in most all of the usual places on Nickajack Lake, with the exception of the back of Marion county park where it is just under the surface.