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What is it and how do I get rid of it??? #212628 04/13/10 11:23 AM
Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 5 Luusiana B bobbyc Fingerling
bobbyc Fingerling B Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 5 Luusiana	This is the nasty green slime that you have to pull of your bait/hook every time you cast, well every time the kids cast and can't get their bait over the mess... There's about a 4-6ft. ring almost all the way around the pond! Any advice?? Thanks in advance!

Re: What is it and how do I get rid of it??? bobbyc #212634 04/13/10 11:28 AM
Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 3,261 el dorado ca D dave in el dorado ca Ambassador Lunker
dave in el dorado ca Ambassador Lunker D Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 3,261 el dorado ca	thats filamentous algae (FA). usually seasonal, will probably go away on its own after water warms up, you could rake out some fishing lanes in it for now. GSF are people too!

Re: What is it and how do I get rid of it??? bobbyc #212636 04/13/10 11:29 AM
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Omaha Moderator Ambassador Field Correspondent Lunker Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 4,856 Likes: 23 Colorado	Temporary fix Bobby, would you be able to rake some of it up? Subscribe to Pond Boss Magazine

Re: What is it and how do I get rid of it??? bobbyc #212652 04/13/10 12:11 PM
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Todd3138 Ambassador Field Correspondent Hall of Fame Lunker Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 3,505 Likes: 3 North Central WV	Like the others said, rake it out. I just did that in one of my ponds after the wind had politely gathered most of it up against one area of the shoreline. Took a few minutes, but really not hard to do at all and certainly worth getting rid of the floating mats of it that I had. Todd La Neve Click Here to Subscribe to Pond Boss Magazine 1.5 & .5 ac ponds - LMB, BG, RES, YP, GC, HSB

Re: What is it and how do I get rid of it??? Todd3138 #212657 04/13/10 12:39 PM
Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 5 Luusiana B bobbyc Fingerling
bobbyc Fingerling B Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 5 Luusiana	Thanks for the help with this one guys! I guess I'll get to raking and see what happens with it. So I take it that it's fairly common and will maybe go away on it's own?

Re: What is it and how do I get rid of it??? bobbyc #212709 04/13/10 04:44 PM
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Tewks Lunker T Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 82 Texas	Also looks like you have some american pondweed in there If at first you don't succeed...look in the trash for the directions.

Re: What is it and how do I get rid of it??? Tewks #212753 04/13/10 09:21 PM
Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 22,033 Likes: 483 Miss. E ewest Moderator Hall of Fame 2014 Lunker
ewest Moderator Hall of Fame 2014 Lunker E Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 22,033 Likes: 483 Miss.	Looks like a mix. Can you get a close up pic ? FA and PW.

Re: What is it and how do I get rid of it??? ewest #212756 04/13/10 09:54 PM
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CJBS2003 Ambassador Field Correspondent Hall of Fame Lunker C Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 10,458 Likes: 3 Earth	Looks like FA and water primrose to me...

Re: What is it and how do I get rid of it??? CJBS2003 #212770 04/13/10 10:23 PM
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jakeb Lunker J Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 686 Randlett, Oklahoma	It never goes away for me... Get out and fish.

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