Comments on: Lake Conroe Big Bass Habitat Threatened

By: Kenny

Kenny — Sat, 15 May 2010 03:22:32 +0000

I think it would help if the took Lake Conroe off of the list of places that carp can not be killed. I know they spent a lot of money on stocking the lake with these fish but if they let anglers remove some the lake might be in better shape. I often see them in what is left of the grass beds and on some of the shallows, I could probably remove over 20 a day bow fishing. The problem I see is they removed what they needed to fast and now they are getting huge. If we could legally thin their numbers in the lake I think that a happy medium would not be far off. If anyone knows of a permit to take them or something to help get me out on the boat with my bow please email me kenny073@sbcglobal.net

By: PaulNorth

PaulNorth — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:34:26 +0000

Excellent post. Being a living historian since 1995, I enjoy

By: paul paschal

paul paschal — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:31:29 +0000

yes enough is enough the recreatoinal boaters need to to stay on th south end the hydrilla was not hurting any thing up north. they also have ways to mow the hydrilla below the water and keep it under control instead of killing it be-sides the fishermen care more about the lake than anyone else. i have been bass fishing lake conroe all of my life and this is the worst shape i have seen the lake in.

By: john monroy

john monroy — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:57:29 +0000

please enough is enough let these fish have a home! and food like you do.

By: Mike S

Mike S — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:24:30 +0000

If those who signed The Aquatic Management Plan would have stayed with the plan, this disaster would have been avoided or, at the very least, the effects minimized.

TXP&WD caved and, under pressure, allowed the carp stocking at a rate of 10 times more than what the plan called for.

Late last year there was another survey the results of which were supposed to determine a course of action to possibly begin harvesting the grass carp.

TP&WD has been strangely quiet on publishing their findings. I called them once and was told they were “finishing up”. That was in late October. A harvest would begin to bring about a balance that would allow establishment of native vegetation and all the hard work that goes into it.

There has to be a mind set from the recreational side that allows an ecological balance be struck. That does not exist now nor has it ever.

Enough is enough. The recreational side is well funded and banded together. The angling side is fragmented. Until that is corrected, things will largely go the way of the recreational side.

By: Donald Piper

Donald Piper — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:52:03 +0000

Another ill effect of “denuding” the lake of all aquatic plant life is the reduction in oxygen.

Lake Conroe has two mechanisms for oxygenation; photosynthesis and diffusion. I don’t know what percentage of the lake is oxygenated by photosynthesis and diffusion. But I do know that with the elimination of most of the lake’s plant life the oxygen content has been hurt. Especially at night and during long periods of cloudy and overcast days there is no photosynthesis taking place and with the already lowered oxygen content the fish suffer. Couple that with periods of no rain and light winds (diffusion is not taking place) and there is potential for a huge fish kill.

There has to be a way to find a happy medium between the re creational boaters and the fishermen.

Donald Piper
Fishing Across Texas