I remember this post well. I support the clean drain dry. My question more to the point is what lakes have been ruined for fishing by zeebs and what other ramifacations come with the zeebs regarding fishing other than making them harder to catch. The water clearing and the line abrasion thing just makes fishing these lakes more challenging for us as anglers, one could argue the point that zeebs do more for curtailing limits of fish being removed from these lakes than other methods. Below is a post I found interesting from an anglers point of view.


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We unfortunately have ZM in the majority of lakes where I live. I don't hear any reports of fishing collapsing. People are still going out, catching fish, vacationing, ect. The local paper is still filled with beautiful fish being caught. Is the water clearer? Yes. Is the weedline deeper? Yes. Have the lakes become vast lifeless voids filled with nothing but weeds and zebra mussels? No.

I don't ever hear any stats about how the lakes with ZM have declined. Where is that data. All I hear is the sky is falling and the world is coming to an end. ZM is not the first invasive species introduced to our waters by man, that included intentional stocking.

We could close every access, have every boat inspected and decomtaminated, and the I am willing to be the spread will continue. Don't birds/ducks/geese/pelican fly from lake to lake?

While it would be nice to eliminate ZM or stop their spread, I think it will be futile.