What you are seeing is filamentous algae. It is covering the shallow areas of most of the lakes in central Arkansas right now. When we have wet springs, like this year, the algae is worse. Last night on a lake we were sampling for bass, we saw thousands of spawning crappie in water willow that was covered by filamentous algae. They were definitely spawning around the algae covered plants.
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