Spraying the grass at Beaver?

[jp_2]

Someone told me they sprayed recently at Beaver lake? Anyone know how long
ago that was and if it has affected the bass bite?

Thanks for any info,

John

[Wormin]

They do it ever year. I usually get a couple trips in before they do it and get a pretty good frog bite going in the moss. If they have sprayed the moss will turn yellowish and start to rot. I wait several months before I go back.

[spinnerbaitguy]

The spraying (which probably wasn't so bad) and the addition of untold numbers of grass carp set in motion a chain of events which took Beaver from being a premier fishery in the commonwealth prior to the 1980s to a damaged remnant. I have not fished there in nearly 10 years mainly out of frustration, I guess.
Beaver provided me some very good memories and used to be a special place. It would be nice to see it rebound somehow.

[fishincreek]

You forgot to mention the the Dept shocked up a bunch of bass and moved them to Guist Cr.

[Wormin]

You forgot to mention the the Dept shocked up a bunch of bass and moved them to Guist Cr.

They did not do it once, it was several times!

[spinnerbaitguy]

I do not know how or if a lake could make a comeback from what Beaver has been through. The genetics of the bass which made Beaver such a honey hole are still there. I would guess that the population got severely out of balance when the grass carp were stocked. It seems that a focused effort at management would start the process but I doubt any effort will be made in my lifetime.

[fishincreek]

I am of the opine that it was a "focused management effort" that lead to Beaver's decline. Same bunch that switched the breeding of producing hybrids. Think I'll pass on those efforts thank you.