Interesting post, as usual. A few thoughts...
You're right that my BOW has become a lot more fertile when it comes to plant biomass. First couple of years I had almost no plants or even algae whatsoever, not good for YOY. FHM were quickly wiped by BG & TP before LMP even stocked, which resulted in a stumbling start to my dreams of lunkers. I even paid to have stuff like Am pondweed & duck potato planted, which did fairly well on year three. Cattails started on their own, as did some chara, at that time. Due to low alkalinity despite liming, chara eventually got outcompeted by southern naiad.
But the fertility seems to have helped plants, especially the naiad, far more than the planktonic bloom. Even with periodic liming & fertilization, my average visibility is probably around four feet. Three feet is unusually good. That bothers me since it means newly hatched fry have little to eat, and plants can get sunlight in much of the lake. Heavy downpours only create murk for a few days, it never gets really muddy even in flood conditions.
Last edited by anthropic; 07/16/21 01:53 AM.
