MUSSELS!!

[evil0ne]

Mussels multiplying like mad

[Guest]

Mussels multiplying like mad

I agree! In Illinois and Indiana they are rampant. On Lake Michigan they have to clean the water cribs quite often. At my Dad's lake in Indianna you can't walk up the dock ladder barefoot without cutting your foot open. we scrape them off one day and their back the next.

[dogbert]

How do you make sure you don't get them on your boat?

[bfrank]

We have whats called the Zebra Mussel. These things are nasty, they are as sharp as razors and stick to any hard surface.
The DNR sits at the boat landings to make sure you dont have any weeds on your trailer and you empty out any lake water so they dont spread to other lakes.
Only real benfit of them is they really cleaned the lake, you can see the bottom with ease.

When we pull our slalom course at the end of the year our ropes are an inch thick with these mussels. We wear leather gloves so we dont slice our hands open.

[billspin]

Heads up in Colorado also. http://www.9news.com/rss/article.aspx?storyid=84727

[spharis]

Start eating them.

[da.bell]

I say export them to Japan for sushi.

[time2kyl]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23130256/

Well if this comes true we won't have to worry about them! Glad I'm moving in 2 years!

[da.bell]

And that could be your Tige also

[time2kyl]

Don't say things like that! I might have to do a lake survey this weekend though. Temp is supposed to be in the low 70s. Give me a chance to play with the new speakers withougt p!ssing off the neighbors. But first I have to put the boat back together...ugh

[spharis]

Vital signs of a warming world.....
Meanwhile Minnesota wins trademarking to being called the nation's icebox, ironically setting the record on coldest temps ever at 40 below, Flooding along the Mississippi river valley, and unusually high volume of snow looks to raise levels to record highs in areas across the nation. Some whale couldn't breed because the ice was too thick, and somewhere in the Arctic circle ice caps were growing. All this on a planet that was at one time a massive gurgling steam bath of lava and Methane. Next thing you know the hole in the ozone will be shrinking.....wait.....what's that.....it already is.....dammit! Did the cavemen call global warming "warming" because they didn't know what a globe was?

Where is Al Gore when we need him to sort all this?

[Domsz06]

ha ha ha

[dogbert]

Vital signs of a warming world.....
Meanwhile Minnesota wins trademarking to being called the nation's icebox, ironically setting the record on coldest temps ever at 40 below, Flooding along the Mississippi river valley, and unusually high volume of snow looks to raise levels to record highs in areas across the nation. Some whale couldn't breed because the ice was too thick, and somewhere in the Arctic circle ice caps were growing. All this on a planet that was at one time a massive gurgling steam bath of lava and Methane. Next thing you know the hole in the ozone will be shrinking.....wait.....what's that.....it already is.....dammit! Did the cavemen call global warming "warming" because they didn't know what a globe was?

Where is Al Gore when we need him to sort all this?

LOL, did you see the Lil' Bush episode where Al Gore has his time machine and Bush uses it to get free ice cream?

[evil0ne]

Don't say things like that! I might have to do a lake survey this weekend though. Temp is supposed to be in the low 70s. Give me a chance to play with the new speakers withougt p!ssing off the neighbors. But first I have to put the boat back together...ugh

I'm off Monday and I'm going to try and get out there. Will you be around?

[time2kyl]

I'm off Monday and I'm going to try and get out there. Will you be around?

Not sure if I'll go Monday or Sunday. All depends on how motivated I am on Saturday to get everything back together. Looking at the weather I might have to be sick on Tuesday also