Hard Freeze Forecast

[Charliee]

Here in North Louisiana we have a hard freeze in the forecast for Monday night. Right now the weather service is saying a low of 15 degrees.
I am hoping that a temperature that low will kill a bunch of the salvinia plaguing our lakes.I know I need to lose a bunch at Hosston. Hopefully a few hard freezes will clear a bunch of this stuff out.

[PawPaw Gene]

Charliee, when I saw the subject of you post my thought were the same. I know a good freeze every few years helps get rid of the water lilies here. Wishing you the best.
"gene"

[Charliee]

Thanks Gene several years ago we had a few hard freezes and it really helped. I am hoping we can have several this year to do a number on the salvinia. The downside is that with temperatures this cold you lose any weevils you might have. They will need to be restocked. I am beginning to think that one of the keys to controlling this stuff will be to have weevil nurseries to restock the weevils each spring and to be able to rapidly infest any patches of salvinia that might crop up. But hopefully this freeze will also do it great harm.

[mermentau]

Can't find the like button on tapatalk now, but I do like this one.

[bflowers]

I have noticed the freezes we have had so far this year has killed a lot of the salvina in the bar ditches around Dorcheat and the high water we have had recently has washed a lot of brown salvina down stream so Charlee I am hoping too. I know it wont cure it but it has got to help.

[Bman350]

Yep, freezing temperatures and moving water is what we need. For those of you in N. Louisiana near Shreveport/Bossier you have probably seen the salvinia flowing down the Red River from 12 Mile Bayou for the last few weeks. I'm amazed at how much is moving. Hopefully Caddo Lake and Black Bayou in Hosston will continue to clear up and be easier to fish this spring.

[Charliee]

I drove to the camp yesterday to make sure everything in the camphouse was ready for the hard freeze. I noticed that our cove was packed with salvinia the wind had blown in. It was all brown looking like it had been damaged by earlier cold weather. Hopefully the cold spell coming will do it in. with exception of our cove I did nt see nearly as much salvinia as before. I went to the public boat launch to lok and most of it there was gone. There was a little bit the wind had up next to the bank but not much at all. It appears most of it has gone over the spillway. I really think some hard freezes and plenty of rain to flush it out will go a long way to controlling the salvinia on this lake.
I am wondering now about the condition of the salvinia on Caddo Lake.

[Charliee]

Well we have had two morning of a hard freeze. One was in the mid 20s and yesterday it was about 17 at the camp. Hopefully it really hurt the salvinia. Time will tell. At least the fruit trees got plenty of needed cold. Yesterday morning here in Ruston it got down to 12 degrees. I hope everyone's plumbing survived.