Jack, I agree with the weed situation.  In the past, I've caught six fish on six straight casts there with a square bill crankbait, but you really have to stick with soft plastics now.  I think weed treatment should be considered there.

Thanks for the update on the weed situation. These updates really help us and our members keep up with what is happening at a lake. Lakes are an ever evolving eco system and some years lakes will kick off a more vegetation than other years. This happens for a myriad of reasons.

We added grass carp 2 years ago. Looks like we may need to add a few more. If you add too many its worse than not adding enough. There is a real fine line.  Chemical treatment which works for about 3 months would cost more than $1500. Out of our budget. A full lake treatment that would last for 2 years would cost about $6000. Again, out of our budget. If we raised fishing rates 2X would could break even in a couple of years.

Steve:  I completely understand on the budget issues.  Weed treatment is a touchy thing as well.  My family had property on a 15 acre lake in Illinois.  The pond weed grew well there, and the bass fishing was very good, although it would have benefited from culling the small ones.  Then they treated for weeds, the small baitfish had no place to hide, and the fishing fell off.  Jim

Thanks Steve.  I wouldn't advocate going the chemical route.  In some of the northern lakes milfoil has taken over and even been the cause of drownings.  There are tools that are sold commercially that are very effective in removing these weeds.  It is very work intensive and probably not practical for some of these smaller bodies of water.