Spring Lake isn’t looking so good…

Took Gemma, our lab for a walk around Spring Lake in Santa Rosa, midday was beautiful but man the lake is about  80-90% covered in Duck weed? I was there last summer and it wasn’t nearly as bad.
Walking around the lake I was wondering what the hell can you do with this shit!? This may sound stupid but could you harvest it and feed it to livestock? Compost? SOL!
I’ve caught some nice bass in there years ago but now it’s not worth it,
the yak gets all messed up!
Any solutions?

Scotty

Duckweed is great for removing phosphorus and nitrates/nitrites from water and transferring to compost or soil. Bad part is it also moves heavy metals with the good stuff.

Any solutions?

Scotty

…….punching 

Any solutions?

Scotty

…….punching 

How can you beat up duckgrass? 

With a tungsten weight and a creature bait……I’d start with each one of those shadow lines

With a tungsten weight and a creature bait……I’d start with each one of those shadow lines

One of my favorite styles!! 

I fished it a few weeks ago.  Caught a five pound bass. 

It’s grown more now.  They will skim the surface this spring. I imagine it will be great fishing then. The grass won’t grow like last year because it’s shaded with the weed.

My transducer pocket was completely packed in.

Has this lake improved since 2022 when this thread was started ?

Has this lake improved since 2022 when this thread was started ?

Yes it’s in great shape!
I was kayaking on it about 2weeks ago and was happy to see it’s back to a nice city lake!

Scotty

Has this lake improved since 2022 when this thread was started ?

the topwater bite is fire right now.  well it was 4 days ago. 

Thanks for the updates. I was out of town on the road. Forgot about this. Until today.  Think I’ll plan a day on the water soon.
Thanks again.