Grass at Fellows

[Seth Clarkson]

A guy in Monday told me it was Coon tail. No idea if he was right. 

[MOPanfisher]

If you can please send me a pic of it. As close up as possible.  Most likely it is coontail, water milfoil, or the close look alike Elodea.

[slabstacker]

I am pretty sure it is hydrilla.  I think the MDC is in to it also, just this year they have plastered the boat ramp with signs about invasive species and even painted on the concrete to inspect the boat for them before leaving.  The pics of hydrilla online look exactly like what is out there also.  I am by no means an expert on this type of stuff but you seem like you know what is what and what the different under water plants are MOPanfisher.  I am gonna try to get up there and fish this weekend if I don't have to work so if I can I will take a good close up of the stuff in the water and then I will grab a handful of it and pull it out and lay it on the boat and snap a few pics.  I will get them uploaded and posted here so you can have a look at them and tell us what it is.  I would definitely like to know what it is for sure, I also know of a few areas that have a different type of weed so I will snap a pic of those and see if you know what they are also.  I have always been curious as to what the different plants are.

[MOPanfisher]

If MDC knew hydrilla was there they would have "nuked" the area.  The signs and painted stencils are part of a campaign against invasive species of several species.  Funny thing is I was at a meeting today that included some refresher identification of hydrilla, so when I saw "hydrilla" it caught my eye.  If it truly looks exactly like the hydrilla photos with whorled leaves then the quick check is the edges of he leaves, if smooth it's elodea, if toothed that would be a hydrilla.  Until I got into it a little bit they all looked like hydrilla, after looking closer at the different plants it's much easier.  But I had to buy a magnifying glass, eyes don't like them little bitty thinge any more.

[bassfisher]

 it looks like hydrilla but it's not. It's smooth. I'll pull a couple up this evening taking my bass Rod out there I live right by fellows.

[MOPanfisher]

If you pull some.up by the roots that would be even better.  

[Flysmallie]

54 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

If you pull some.up by the roots that would be even better.  

 

To me it looks like what used to be all over Pomme. I don't know what that was or is though. 

[MOPanfisher]

That's good news then, because it was not hydrilla.  Old timers called it coon tail but may actually have been a milfoil. 

[bassfisher]

From fellows 

[MOPanfisher]

Definitely not hydrilla.  The needles appear to be forked which is indicative of coontail.