Had an unpleasant experience at Middle River Thursday. I prefished Victoria canal and
around. I would eat blackberries from the overhanging bushes. A truck came by on top and sprayed the bushes, blackberry bushes. The guy with a big hood and mask on said the stuff was Roundup, pretty toxic stuff. . He may have been facetious. The next day I prefished again (though it turns out I cannot make the tourney), and all the bushes were brown, curled and dead.The poison did the job in 18 hours. The white stuff went into the water, and it hit me, and I was eating (like hundreds of others,) the blackberries. Not only does the commercial robbery of Delta water (sent South) harm the fish (smelt die-off), the toxic chemicals are poisoning the habitat as well. Getting rid of the hyacinth was just a beginning, and seemed o.k. But now 48 different herbicides are used. Nature is a nuisance, isn't it. So just kill it. I not only want to save the fish, I want to fish in unpolluted waters in a natural habitat. Good luck at Middle River, just don't eat the inviting blackberries. Oh, by the way, I caught a bunch of 2 and 3 pounders Thursday before the spray down, but didn't get a single bite Friday. Probably a coincidence. The red-winged blackbirds that inhabited the bushes were gone.
Rocky