Rock Snot?

[laker67]

found some snot 2 diff places yesyerday. fished 3 other locations with none. gonna be bad like last year. hope not but bet thats true. last year was a nightmare as you all know. too many sewers leaking into rock. to many nutrients.

According to what Phil said in an earlier topic, Rock snot cannot grow in a warm water lake, creek, or pond.

[Whack'emGood]

According to what Phil said in an earlier topic, Rock snot cannot grow in a warm water lake, creek, or pond.

Well, unfortunately, it grows in The Rock. Hopefully, it won't be as bad as it was last year. Maybe it will die off quickly this year, as the water warms.

[bigredbirdfan]

Yeah, and "pouring" phosphorus and fecal bacteria down the rivers and creeks from inadequate sewage treatment plants from Cities, chicken farms, cattle pastures and small towns.

What River/creek does Buffalo, MO drain it's sewage into ?

Springfield treats for Phosphorus and has for a long time. I don't know about other wastewater treatment facilities. Most dish soaps and laundry detergent have gone away from it anyway. Phosphorus is important to water quality as long as it's not too high. I wish Al would address your claims on a biological basis cause I just don't know it well enough.

[mrgungho]

we can slow down the snot if we had less pollution from septics pouring into the lake....

Yeah but if we reduce that then the population of Brown Trout would be damaged severly.....

[Sore Thumbs]

There is some in the back left side of Leatherwood Creek. Caught some a couple of weeksw ago.

[dtrs5kprs]

Well, unfortunately, it grows in The Rock. Hopefully, it won't be as bad as it was last year. Maybe it will die off quickly this year, as the water warms.

Was trying to avoid that one. Seems to grow in a lot of warm lakes if you search it.

http://cisr.ucr.edu/didymo_rock_snot.html

Now if we could get the fancy fisherman out of their felt booties...Can't all be due to the boots. Surely some has to do with trailering, boat storage and docks, etc.

[dtrs5kprs]

Spoke this morning with one half of a top 5 team from last weekend's JoeBass, or as it should be forever called, the "B Squared Beatdown", and they found it in several places they fished.

Good feelings gone.

[Sam]

I drove across the Lake Springfield Dam last week. It was after a big rain, there was lots of water going through the dam, and the James River was up and yellow-muddy.

Downstream from the dam there were soapsuds as far as you could see, stirred up by going through the dam. That's all going down into Tablerock.

[Jason Essary]

Sam, departments dont want to admit it, but 90% of the nutrients coming into tablerock come down the james river from springfield, nixa and ozark. They blame the homes around the lake, these homes are a tiny portion of the problem compared to the discarge from the cities, but the cities get the slide because of the money involved. I was on one of the first stream teams in the area while in high school. The testing is a true eye opener. Why do you think the spoonbill run up the james and not up the kings or long creek (least few do).

Money always talks first and last.

[rlkiesl]

The Buffalo MO area drains into the Niangua River.