Catschratch - Do you do anything to manage the coontail?
Not really. I do some herbicide around the dock.
The best I can measure, the coontail compromises about 15% of the acreage in the summer. I read that is about right. As long as it doesn't start to go deeper than 8ft I'm pretty much ok with it. Plus it's a fairly large pond so expenses to do anything about it would likely be out of my tax bracket.