Bribie snot weed

[alleycat]

Gday all, just wondering how the snot weed is at bribie, was there sunday and it was really starting to show its ugly face again, what a pain it is and it lasted for months last year, does it usually hang around that long?.

[captain rednut]

its wild at scarborough at the moment the horrible stuff, it normally only lasts a month or two here.

[Fillet`n`Release]

I haven't seen it in the canals bad *yet*, not like last year that was horrid. It was predicted with this colder winter that it would be worse, but *touch wood* so far so good. I haven't actually looked in the passage lately, might go take a peek if the weather would let me take my boat out.

[tunaticer]

Time for the surface lures again boys or of the rain stops for a month we can head well upstream and fish the brackish lines where the weed doesnt get to.

Looking to be a better than average late spring though looking through the weather patterns forming.

[Mike Delisser]

Bugger, I was at Donnybrook a couple of weeks ago and didn't see any, got a trip there in Aug and wa hoping to avoid the snot weed.

[alleycat]

Had a run up to donnybrook this morning, weed not too bad, might have to hit the chanells tunaticer, like you say im getting nothing but just legal or just unders near the banks, have not caught a 60cm flathead this year yet and thats out of hundreds..

[Slider]

Plenty on the beach here at Teewah this morning.

For those interested in what snot weed is and why it gets so bad -

Snot weed is dead and decaying 'salps' - a marine animal that feeds on algae. With the increasing incidence of algal blooms due to the harvesting of fish and shellfish that feed on algae, combined with nurient run off, there is a lot of algae for the salps to feed on and they explode in number. In winter, the algaes - lingbya/anaulus australis - can't proliferate in the colder water and it dies off. With the food source for the salps having gone, the exploded population of salps die off and wash into the shore, bays and estuaries through tidal movement.

[tunaticer]

I disagree Slider, we have the salps wash ashore as the jelly like creatures they are, the brown snot weed we have here is algae and you can see it growing thickly on the bottom in shallow areas as a green algae then soon after it turns brown and becomes waterborne travelling with the tide.
The salps are on the foreshore as the clearish jellies ranging from a 5c piece size to about 10cm in length.

The entire bay and eastuaries is currently coated with algae both green and brown currently as happens in august every year. By mid to late Sept it has usually cleared enough for the fish to return and the fishing to start to improve.

[softplasticsdude79]

Is there any snot weed at jumpinpin ?

[choppa]

Is there any snot weed at jumpinpin ?


"boogered" if I know SPD79,,,,

sry,,, couldn't resist,,,

[Slider]

You may well be right Tunaticer - I haven't studied it to any great degree. The bit of a look I had a few years ago pointed me in that direction. Seemed logical at the time ...

Just spent an hour washing the bloody stuff from under the Lux, whatever it is.