It's our latest adventure....: Lake Bistineau

Lubber Grasshopper

Even with yo-yo fishing, State Farm is there. A yo-yo is a mechanical fisher. It's a small spring loaded device that you tie on to a limb, dock, jug or even the side of a boat. that has an automated reel. You tie it off to your chosen item and then pull the line out and bait it. The mechanical device sets and the line stays out in the water. When a fish hits the bait, the yo yo pulls the line back in rapidly and hooks the fish. Typically one makes and evening of yo-yo fishing setting 15-30 yo-yo's then making a round every hour or so to check for fish (or the occasional alligator or turtle).

Single hummer

Snapping turtle shell

The plastron or lower shell of a musk turtle...I think.

The upper shell or the carapace of a musk turtle.

Old Schlitz beer can.

Lake Bistineau has another aquatic vegetation problem. It's currently being choked out by salvinia, a free floating aquatic fern. First discovered in the lake in 2006 and various methods have been used to eradicate it including a salvinia weevil. The Corp of Engineers has dropped the lake twice and are currently in process of using an herbicide (with a poor record of effectiveness). The biomass of the salvia can double in size every 3-5 days.