Eel Grass

**DockShootinJack** · 09-30-2021, 03:17 AM

Certainly sounds lile it has gotten a lot worse simce when I fished it

**BankBound** · 09-30-2021, 12:55 PM

It’s really disappointing they’ve let it get so bad and basically have no plan to address the problem. Is it a native grass or invasive? I suppose maybe if the city of Guntersville starts to see a downturn in revenue due to fishermen going elsewhere they’d push the issue. I don’t guess it’s gotten to that point yet. It’s so bad at all the usual bank fishing spots it’s almost pointless to go.

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**DockShootinJack** · 09-30-2021, 01:37 PM

Didn't they used to spray the grass with airboats?

**BankBound** · 09-30-2021, 02:52 PM

I suppose on strategy might be to get a bucket of minners and a slip float. May have to try that.

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**DockShootinJack** · 09-30-2021, 03:16 PM

The fish probably love it

**DockShootinJack** · 09-30-2021, 03:29 PM

I took a few minutes and did some looking. It is called vallisneria. Eel grass or tape grass. Supposed to be a native species. To the the lakes in the Tennessee river system. It is a evergreen grass that grows year round.

**Damion Kidd** · 09-30-2021, 07:30 PM

Originally Posted by BankBound

I suppose on strategy might be to get a bucket of minners and a slip float. May have to try that.

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But won’t the minners just land on top and lay there and die?

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**FurFlyin** · 09-30-2021, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by BankBound

I suppose on strategy might be to get a bucket of minners and a slip float. May have to try that.

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I would have needed post hole diggers to accomplish that under that dock I was talking about.

**BankBound** · 09-30-2021, 10:28 PM

Originally Posted by Damion Kidd

But won’t the minners just land on top and lay there and die?

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If you can find a hole to drop them in I think you could get them down where you want, with a heavy enough split shot. It wasn’t as thick as what Fur ran into where I’ve been. It’s just bad enough that if you try casting a jig into a hole, you eventually end up reeling into a wad of it.

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**Javelin 180** · 10-01-2021, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by FurFlyin

It's worse this year than I've ever seen it. My son and I went Sunday afternoon, after church and I ran 8 miles down the lake to a "can't miss" dock. Floating eel grass was 6" thick under the dock. There was also more than 6" hanging off the guys boat lifts. I don't like to longline nearly as much as I did when I started crappie fishing a few years ago, but you can about forget that in the spring. All you do is reel each line in, clean it off and move to the next. Then start over.

I can't believe the property owners that join the lake aren't raising all sort of fuss about it. We do work on a good bit of TVA's equipment. I have talked to them every time they come to the shop till I'm blue in the face. They have NO plans to do anything about it. Currently. I think we all need to start pestering the heck out of our state Representatives and Senators.

TVA will tell you they are not in the fish business they are in the electric business LOL !!!! You just make sure and keep that stuff up towards your area and don't send any down here please.

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