Invasive Mussel's and aquatic vegetation?

[WillCFish]

What invasive species are in your area?
How will they impact the fishing and lakes in your area?
Invasive species seem to be everywhere these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N6WXFeCMxU
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[gdn443]

We do have some millfoil here in CT. With the striped mussel just showing up.
Lake St.Katherine in VT, has had Millfoil for years and they have dumped chemicals into it for 6 or so years and have wrecked the fishing. No more Pike and the lg.mouth have fallen off 50%. I can only hope they go back to harvesting like they use to.
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[davetclown]

we have hundreds of them here in michigan, they come in by the ocean linner load. both dry land and water verieties.

zebra mussles, gobi. are the most predominant, they are everywhere, even in places where there is on water flow. they attach them selves and eggs to boats or people suck them in to the live wells and dump them in inland lakes.

I dont need to mention the asian carp threat.. hope the dry mississippi gets rid of a bunch of them.
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[WillCFish]

We havn't got millfoil yet. It's in parts of Minnesota i Know.
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[TheWoz]

Yup zebras here in Lake Michigan

And you minasota and Michigan guys will be to hear this. My buddy caught a big head (Asian) carp on our outting on the des plaines river Saturday. Which means they're past the barrier In the illinois river which means they'll be in Lake Michigan before spring b/c there's nothin stopping them now.
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[WillCFish]

Those bighead carp are moving into a lot of areas.
I've heard they are coming up the Missouri River also and
are as far North as Gavins Point Dam, South Dakota.
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[davetclown]

this is a serious matter, it should be reported, here is a link to make the report.

[url "http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10364_52261_54896-246818--,00.html"]http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10364_52261_54896-246818--,00.html[/url]
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[WillCFish]

You're right Davetclown.
Our DNR found a couple small Zebra Mussel's and think they got them all. Highly unlikely. Once these things are in a lake they're there to stay unless the organism scientist are working on that kills them works. Many times introducing biologics is worse than the invasive.
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