zebra mussels

[dtrs5kprs]

9 minutes ago, Ham said:

Lots of ppl can't figure out the different between a spotted bass and a Largemouth. I'm not sure its possible to educate everyone well enough to do all the tricks to clean a boat properly. And I'm not sure that everybody cares enough even if they really understood.

Short of the full 30-60 day dry out, I'm not sure how much all the boat work will help. Kind of strikes me as being a "well, it's the best we can do" step. And it really might be exactly that. Lots of places for water to ride on a boat and trailer. 

[Quillback]

Can't see how the spread will be stopped.  They're in Grand and Bull, TR and Beaver are caught in the middle.

[dtrs5kprs]

1 hour ago, Quillback said:

Can't see how the spread will be stopped.  They're in Grand and Bull, TR and Beaver are caught in the middle.

Watch the howling if they get in Taney. 

[Ham]

I wonder if consistently cool water temps suppress them. They certainly should be all up and down the White below BSL, but I've never seen a one.

[Old plug]

5 minutes ago, Ham said:

I wonder if consistently cool water temps suppress them. They certainly should be all up and down the White below BSL, but I've never seen a one.

5 minutes ago, Ham said:

i realt do not think its cold as much ad heat. I know someone thay lives in Canada that told mr they are bad in thr steelhead rivers. 

wHat seemed tomget them here was that very hat summer we hd awhle back. It must have made something else accur because they just almost torally dispeared from the lake. All through The hot weather they were floating by the dock upsude down looked like a punkin seed. I have never heard a explanation for that from MDC. 

[dtrs5kprs]

36 minutes ago, Ham said:

I wonder if consistently cool water temps suppress them. They certainly should be all up and down the White below BSL, but I've never seen a one.

Hmmm. Current? If they survive the Great Lakes I wouldn't think an Ozark winter would make them blink. If they could blink. 

[Ham]

That may be a question for the pros to answer.

[Old plug]

Just now, Old plug said:

i realt do not think its cold as much as heat. I know someone thay lives in Canada that told mr they are bad in the steelhead rivers. 

What seemed to get them here was that very hotsummer we had awhile back. It must have made something else accur because they just almost torally dispeared from the lake. All through the hot weather they were floating by the dock upside down. Looked like a punkin seed. I have never heard a explanation for that from MDC. 

 

[dtrs5kprs]

4 hours ago, Ham said:

That may be a question for the pros to answer.

I'm not a pro, but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. And I'm pretty sure I can run a hurry up offense with more urgency than the Chiefs showed.

Lots of info is out there, much of it PDF primary stuff. This is a fair summary:

http://fl.biology.usgs.gov/Nonindigenous_Species/Zebra_mussel_FAQs/Dreissena_FAQs/dreissena_faqs.html

Seems to be some variance on the lower end temp Q. Unfortunately that could be due to the little buggers adapting, from some of what I looked at. Seems to be consensus they can survive in cool temps, but need temps similar to bass and panfish to optimally reproduce. Meaning? Who knows. Maybe they will be all over lower Taney, but not up towards the dam.

[Sam]

Thanks for posting that article, dtrs5kprs.  So far as chances of keeping ZM's out of local lakes and rivers they're not already in, here's the part that makes me believe every body of water around here is going to get infested in time.  As you say, there are lots of places for water to ride on a boat and trailer.

"A fully mature female mussel is capable of producing up to one million eggs per season. After fertilization, pelagic microscopic larvae, or veligers, develop within a few days and these veligers soon acquire minute bivalve shells. Free-swimming veligers drift with the currents for three to four weeks feeding by their hair-like cilia while trying to locate suitable substrata to settle and secure byssal threads."

And so far as cold maybe stopping them, well - they are from Russia.  :>(