Well... It was a sad day for me. I have had a lot of conversations with various people within the industry as well as anglers that fish the lake. It seems that most of the suggestions mentioned are ones that I have thought about. In my opinion... the one thing that needs to be done is to research this further. Some say they can be transmitted through waterfowl... some say they can't. Some say that it takes 4 days to kill the mussels out of a moist environment, some say 7. It seems like there are no definitive facts about these things and the California DFG needs to step up and research this. Once they learn more about them... more plans can be put in place.

Some talked about a hot bath / steam cleaning... That would be great but it doesn't reach all of the places (ie. between the bunks and the boat when it's on the trailor). It also will peel anyones boat wrap off with the heat causing the $3000 investment to be ruined. One thing that I would like to see is actual divers at all the lakes to determine if they are in fact in there or not.

Rob said it perfectly... the first domino has tumbled. There are many others that are going to fall right behind it.