Beaver Lake FYI

[Wormin]

Why does this sound wrong to me? If Bass populations were really the problem then take away the 15" minimum for a few years. Leave the weed since it's proven to be a nursery for small bass and bream.
Sounds more like the grass isn't liked by the locals and they finally found a way to get rid of it. JMO.

I agree Don this just is not right. Every time this lake starts to rebound they set it back again.

[Bineyj]

I thought back to meeting and here are a few more things i recall. They did state this was and has been a panfish lake, i gather the benefit was the bass grew well due to this. Lots of people were concerend about the weeds and i was one of them too. Per KDFWR weeds are good, just not this curly leaf stuff. I even asked if they would try and plant more coontail/naitive plants. They hope the eradication of curly leaf will help and naitve plants will take its place. The knock against curly leaf is it blooms when fry are little. This stuff takes up the nutrients the fry feed on, plus take oxygen out of the water. I thnk of it as a nasty weeds in a yard or garden, so of that stuff can take over pretty quickly. I am about positive they mentioned a 12-13" bass is around 7-8 years old over there. Way off the typical growth cycle.
Just a little more info for those worried about Beaver.

[DJD]

I thought back to meeting and here are a few more things i recall. They did state this was and has been a panfish lake, i gather the benefit was the bass grew well due to this. Lots of people were concerend about the weeds and i was one of them too. Per KDFWR weeds are good, just not this curly leaf stuff. I even asked if they would try and plant more coontail/naitive plants. They hope the eradication of curly leaf will help and naitve plants will take its place. The knock against curly leaf is it blooms when fry are little. This stuff takes up the nutrients the fry feed on, plus take oxygen out of the water. I thnk of it as a nasty weeds in a yard or garden, so of that stuff can take over pretty quickly. I am about positive they mentioned a 12-13" bass is around 7-8 years old over there. Way off the typical growth cycle.
Just a little more info for those worried about Beaver.

That doesn't add up to me. They have too many bass meaning successful spawns, meaning they survived somehow in an area full of weeds. A weed that is supposed to **** the nutrients form the water when the bass are fry which should lead to less bass surviving but yet there are way too many bass?
Huh?
I grew up fishing lakes with alot of weeds and the bass fishing was great. It's a refuge for fry of all species and a place of cover for predators like bass.
I don't know squat about fish biology or lake management but I like to understand what I'm being told. So far I don't understand anything about this except the weeds are non native, too many bass, keeping the 15" minimum on bass, taking hundreds of bass out, killing the weeds and it's supposed to help.
Oh well these smart fellas will do what they want for any reason they want but so far they sure seem to be shooting in the dark to me hoping something works.

[Bineyj]

DJD
I agree with you. Maybe the survival rate is too high. This is to hard for me to figure out too. I just hope in the end the lake turns out to have more nice bluegill and keeper bass. Right now, it's out of balance bad. That i think everyone can agree on that. I really enjoy the lake and the folks i've met over there.

[1BADBASS]

Good to see that Beaver is getting some much needed attention.

[mawi97]

I want to thank Fish and Wildlife for this move. Thanks to them I weighted in three 13" fish Sunday at Guist. If not for them I would have blanked.