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1 hour ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Best figure out how to fish around them...

Thats true. I have caught very large Drum over the years on everything from crank baits to spoons and jigs. The later two in particular. Matter of fact I enjoy it in the spring when they will put-up a fight comparable to any bass. 

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to me it really seems they thrive in the  coldest, clearest water of BS.The upper lake below Powersite ,  K dock,Beaver creek area, and some places within the  Bull Shoals dam area are where I've seen the most. I have yet to see any zebra mussels survive a whole year in the Theodosia arm,Big creek, or Spring creek area. It's like they got a start, and then they disappeared. Some places in the Theodosia arm they were carpeting the bottom in January of 2015 and the lake level was around 655.  Come November when the lake was back down to 657. Not even a trace of a zebra mussel. Like they were never even there.

If I remember correctly about  Feb./March there was a mega algae bloom in these same places in the Theo and Spring creek arms that looked kinda brown, mossy like , really thick and completely covered the bottom and every rock and mussel from the bank out to like 15'  where these zebras were trying to establish themselves. The algae didn't last long , just a few weeks then the lake flooded.I wonder if the thick blanket of moss/algae smothered them or killed them some other way ? 

In some of those other places I mentioned where the numbers are massive when the lake went down there we saw huge numbers of dead mussels. 

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Water clarity does not mean much. Turbid water carries a  lot od nutreients they can feed on. As a matter if fct they will  make the water clearer with all the filter feeding. They filter out what they want and use the rest to build their shell. Including toxins. When they were bad here you could see a small crappie jig down to 7-8 or deeper on the gravois arm. It has always bothered me that we had a sudden drop in the blue cat fishing on this arm. I have always wondred if toxins in those shells were part of the problem. Blues feed heavily on zebras and can digest the shells. 

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