Spraying the grass at Beaver?

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

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.

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.

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

[QUOTE=fishincreek;581445]You forgot to mention the the Dept shocked up a bunch of bass and moved them to Guist Cr.[/QUOTE]

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

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.

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.