Thread: Health Advisory ......

I see on the map that it looks like in the lake Woodruff / Dexter area there is a warning because of pesticides. That is no surprise to me. The last 3 years when I have fished there in the spring and fall they had the air boat navy out there every day spraying. This past Feb/March when I was on Woodruff you could see a big area on the southeast side where even the palms are starting to die. I guess the logic is, if the government gives you money to spray, You spray until the tanks are dry. When will the stupidity end? JC

I think the first year I fished Woodruff / Dexter it was 2001 or 2. I remember being all ready to troll those lakes. When I got out on Dexter it was full of hydrillas and just about impossible to troll. So I slowly fished my way over to Woodruff. It was every bit as full of hydrillas and dollar pads over there. The next year I'm out there and on more than one day there was a helicopter dropping some type of pellets into the lakes. Later that week I was told it was to start thinning out the vegetation because all the fish camps had ask for it because the fishermen where complaining. After that year there was a marked decrees in vegetation on both lakes. Then they started with the air boats spraying around the shore line. This past spring was the first time I had ever fished those lakes and saw almost no dollar pads at all. Surly the loss of all of this cover will affect the spawn. Not to mention what the spray does directly to the fish, and the people that eat them. JC