What is this plant?

Buzzy

Buzzy

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I find this in many of the Basin lakes, my iPhone doesn't know, neither do I. What is it, please?
 
The link that G_Smolt posted would definitely be helpful. I tried zooming it in as much as my computer allowed and it's still difficult to tell. My best guess is that's it's either Elodea or Myriophyllum.
 
G_Smolt said:

Might be helpful. Tough to tell from that pic.
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I went to the giant cataract lake in the link you provided and struck out - but hey, thanks!

This plant has a fairly thick and tough stem and seems to grow in water from maybe 5' deep to 10' deep, mucky bottom. This time of year the top of the plant is rotten, kicking through a forest of them muddies up the local area.

Two lakes I fish fairly often have these damned plants growing (and apparently multiplying) which creates a few "false" takes.
 
RRSmith said:
The link that G_Smolt posted would definitely be helpful. I tried zooming it in as much as my computer allowed and it's still difficult to tell. My best guess is that's it's either Elodea or Myriophyllum.
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Thanks Bob - I can't tell from my faulty memory or my lousy photo which of the two it might or might not be... and now that the top is disintegrating it might be hard to get a picture.
 
Buzzy said:
Thanks Bob - I can't tell from my faulty memory or my lousy photo which of the two it might or might not be... and now that the top is disintegrating it might be hard to get a picture.
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Elodea will break apart and the pieces will root in the muck and remain dormant until the lake warms up in the spring. Myriophyllum typically dies back to their rhizomes as lakes start to cool off.

We've had overgrowth issues with both species in Devils Lake on the Oregon Coast.
 
RRSmith said:
Elodea will break apart and the pieces will root in the muck and remain dormant until the lake warms up in the spring. Myriophyllum typically dies back to their rhizomes as lakes start to cool off.

We've had overgrowth issues with both species in Devils Lake on the Oregon Coast.
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I don't think this is Myriophyllum then.......
 
Dloy said:
Damnifino?
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Me too, went back out again yesterday and tried to get a better pic but couldn't/didn't so it's still WTH is it. One thing that I discovered, the trout were feeding in and among these Atlantic salmon weeds, Damifino weeds and cusmaximus plants and if I was lucky enough to hook a fish rather than these fibrous things, I was even luckier if I was able to horse a fish out of them.................
 
I have seen a plant like that in the shallow end of Georgetown Lake in Montana. You don’t want to hook on to one of them because you will lose the battle…
 
My home lake.
 
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