Greenhead,

Are you allowed grass carp in Illinois? One of their preferred plants is chara. I have out of control char in two of my ponds. I will be adding grass carp to see what happens. I'll be stocking a high number and if that is too much will electroshock some of them out. I prefer an algae bloom, but with the out of control char the nutrients are being diverted to the chara and the water is very clear. I'm hoping if the grass carp eat a significant amount of chara I can get my algae bloom back. I'm adding some Talapia in summer just in cast the filamentous takes over for the char instead of the phytoplankton. What was that Blondie song? One way or another?

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.