Black Bayou Hosston Salvania

[JMGullo]

Since everyone seems to be on the salvania kick I figured id share some pics from Black Bayou Hosston. Took these pics Thursday. We went fishing out there on Sunday because it looked fishable from the ramp and with that pile on the backside of the spillway I figured most of it had been washed over the dam. We got to about marker 10 and past that the rest of the lake was solid.

[Elwood]

Sad.......pray for a good hard winter.....with many freezing days and high water

[Nutt]

Man, that's sad.  I hate to see that on such a great little lake.  This crap makes me not want to buy another boat any time soon.

[Elwood]

I don't get it.....I did not see any on Lake Fork this week end....why?

[fishinforsanity]

Don't jinx it!

[Elwood]

I think that is the fact that Texas takes care of their lakes and eliminates the salvinia before it gets bad.  LA needs to step up and we need to keep screaming about the problem.  Maybe one day they will hear us.

[Russ199A]

Scream until you loose your voice if you want. This stuff is here to stay, there isn't a way to get rid of 100%. I saw it down in southern LA, so even if we get a hard winter it will be back in a couple years. The state could do more to fight it but that costs money, money that will have to come from the tax payers.
It was unfortunate that the plant made it into our waters, but we now have as much chance of ridding LA of it as we do getting rid of the fire ant. Expensive/toxic chemicals into our water ways, introducing a non-native insect into the ecosystem, and tons of money spent on all of that... We are no closer now to eradicating this stuff than we were five years ago. It's here to stay plain and simple.

[Elwood]

Well hell let's just lay down and let it take over........

[Russ199A]

We don't have a choice...

[FishinSteelersFan]

They need to spray in combination of a salt solution to kill this stuff, the salt won't harm the fish but may harm the cypress trees.  Last I heard they were going to remove almost all of the cypress trees on Bistineau anyway, so why not use the salt/chemical mixture?

[Mike V]

Campti was just about this bad also last weekend!