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Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2013 5:55 pm**

So, the wind wasn't blowing, and the birds were rafted up about a half mile out on the lake pulling any birds that may have been flying in to them, but I didn't care. It was one of those mornings that everything was so beautiful that nothing else mattered other than the tranquillity of the lake.

Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2013 5:58 pm**

Nice shots. Snow on the bank is so foreign to me

Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2013 6:04 pm**

Other pics from today:
Ice along the shore and zebra mussels on the rocks. That water is about 4ft deep on that picture. The water was crystal clear.

Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2013 6:40 pm**

Beautiful pics goldfish

Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2013 6:57 pm**

Damn zebra muscles.

Cool pics.

Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:22 pm**

Redbeard wrote:Nice shots. Snow on the bank is so foreign to me

For some reason I thought y'all got snow there.

Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:37 pm**

NuffDaddy wrote:Damn zebra muscles.

Cool pics.

Those zebra muscles are what helped clean up a lot of our waters. 15 years ago you couldn't see in 10FOW, now you can see shipwrecks in 60'.
Granted they suck to grab/step on, they are sorta helpful. Does that mean I'm gonna go spread them? Absolutely not, but they are handy.

Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:42 pm**

BrewGUN wrote:
NuffDaddy wrote:Damn zebra muscles.

Cool pics.

Those zebra muscles are what helped clean up a lot of our waters. 15 years ago you couldn't see in 10FOW, now you can see shipwrecks in 60'.
Granted they suck to grab/step on, they are sorta helpful. Does that mean I'm gonna go spread them? Absolutely not, but they are handy.

They also killed nearly every native clam and snail, damaged fish populations, and cleared the water so weeds and algae choked out many shallow inland lakes. Not to mention they cut the shit out of your feet. Other than all that they are pretty badass.

Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2013 9:26 pm**

Snails and clams are coming back up here

Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2013 9:54 pm**

I'd imagine they are also responsible for the huge upswing in Sea Duck populations

Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2013 10:32 pm**

Westie25 wrote:
Redbeard wrote:Nice shots. Snow on the bank is so foreign to me

For some reason I thought y'all got snow there.

we get it a couple times a year right on the coast where I'm at. But it's light and melts right away. But you go 20 min inland and they get a lot of snow in the winter months

Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2013 11:39 pm**

DeadEye_Dan wrote:I'd imagine they are also responsible for the huge upswing in Sea Duck populations

Couldn't hurt...

Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2013 11:39 pm**

jehler wrote:Snails and clams are coming back up here

Our lakes went to shit up north by you after the zebra muscles got in them.

Posted: **Fri Nov 15, 2013 3:31 am**

Redbeard wrote:Nice shots. Snow on the bank is so foreign to me

That was actually ice. The wind was moving out of the north when the temp was reaching highs of about 20* which on that lake makes for pretty decent waves, so dosing up on shore and then freezing, you get this

Posted: **Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:51 am**

NuffDaddy wrote:
jehler wrote:Snails and clams are coming back up here

Our lakes went to shit up north by you after the zebra muscles got in them.

was a lot of work spreading them, we spent most of 1993 scraping rocks and filling buckets with those little mussels and dumping them all over but it paid off, we finally have some birds to shoot now

Posted: **Fri Nov 15, 2013 7:30 am**

jehler wrote:
NuffDaddy wrote:
jehler wrote:Snails and clams are coming back up here

Our lakes went to shit up north by you after the zebra muscles got in them.
was a lot of work spreading them, we spent most of 1993 scraping rocks and filling buckets with those little mussels and dumping them all over but it paid off, we finally have some birds to shoot now

Posted: **Fri Nov 15, 2013 7:35 am**

jehler wrote:
NuffDaddy wrote:
jehler wrote:Snails and clams are coming back up here

Our lakes went to shit up north by you after the zebra muscles got in them.
was a lot of work spreading them, we spent most of 1993 scraping rocks and filling buckets with those little mussels and dumping them all over but it paid off, we finally have some birds to shoot now

:lol:

Posted: **Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:14 am**

Great pics.

Posted: **Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:36 am**

jehler wrote:
NuffDaddy wrote:
jehler wrote:Snails and clams are coming back up here

Our lakes went to shit up north by you after the zebra muscles got in them.
was a lot of work spreading them, we spent most of 1993 scraping rocks and filling buckets with those little mussels and dumping them all over but it paid off, we finally have some birds to shoot now

I had a guide in NC offer to pay my $100 for ever 5 gallons full of Zebra mussels.

Posted: **Fri Nov 15, 2013 3:16 pm**

I would've had the kids at the end of a whip for that kind of deal.

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