Thread: Orange Lake Spraying

Is orange lake near rodman? I'm new to the area and looking for places to go. Thanks rob

Let us know what they say. I've never heard official word, particularly about the eating part. But it certainly seems to affect the fishing part with all that dying vegetation, and for a long, long time. Prolly not too good for the spawn either.

What Slab said x 50.

A few weeks ago an airboat was spraying Lochloosa. First week of February. It was pretty close to camper. The next day the wind shifted and seemed to blow foam from area sprayed the day before I didn’t keep any fish. Fishing seemed to slow in area sprayed. I did good the next day where the foam blew into

The fish are safe to eat and the only way it will have any impact on the fishing is if they kill too much vegetation at one time which is rare as there is a formula used to calculate the amount of acreage safe to treat. Typically an area will be treated once a week to allow time for the treated area to die out then is evaluated the following week and treated again as needed. When the treated vegetation starts to die it pulls oxygen from the water and if too much is treated at a given time thats when the fishing may be affected...and if a newbie nukes the lake then a fish kill may occur due to extremely low oxygen levels.

Yea the newbie nuking the banks is what we get here on the river. Must hire a newbie every year to do the job. Year in and year out they nuke everything they spray here. Coves smell like septic tanks after they spray.

Just....but haven't the streams & lakes been taken care of by mother nature for longer than any organization has ever begun to think about getting involved......I would rather see enforcement stopping known violators that pollute the waters, like what's happening to the Indian River lagoon in Cocoa, the Big O headwaters problems, returning Jessup to it's natural flow, ect.... these are issues that if action was to be taken would lead by example, that someone out there cares about what was "Created" vs what can "we" create.......

I remember Lake Toho before the spraying, nice sand bottom, Mother Nature kept just the right amount of cover and the open water areas were beautiful, Fast forward to after spraying started. Now areas that were sand bottom are 2 ft. thick in muck, what was once an 18 to 20ft deep channel is 5 to 8 ft deep, and 10 to 15 ft deep in much. Floating islands of vegetation abound, And I have not seen a water hyacinth in years. Use to love fishing those.
There are 2 new islands on the lake, created by piling the muck up when they scraped the bottom in areas and nobody would take it.