canadian pondweed

[Guest midnight_runner]

got a job as a fishery mannager on a small rainbow fishery with a good head of wild browns its got a fair amount of this weed in it was wondering what is the best way to get shot of it

[Guest chilli]

rake it , hard work but keeps it down , you can make the water cloudy but that isnt allways successfull .

[Guest midnight_runner]

rake it , hard work but keeps it down , you can make the water cloudy but that isnt allways successfull .

cheers chilli

[Danny-Macca 0]

you could also put bait there for the fish and let the fish sort some of it and clear a patch where you have been feeding them, that should work.

[Guest piking pirate]

contact the environment agency and ask them where to get some weed killing crystals but also ask how to use them or you could have alot of trees dying to but back on the good side of them they are absolutly brilliant at doing the job

[Guest Bodach]

Had the same problem in small fishery dam in Renfrewshire a good few years ago, at that time you could use a chemical called blue stone, don't know if it would be allowed now-a-days.

 

Another approach is to use straw on a windy day spread the straw over the windward side of the water and let it blow down the loch cating the pond weed, rack it out of the water when wind drops as it can cause the oxygen content of the water to drop as the straw breaks down.

 

Also cover areas with black polythene it cuts out ady light and kills the weed, rack out dead weed as aboce

 

tight lines

 

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[J Darcy 5,871]

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