[Bruce Litton]

I think it needs to be drained and dredged. Start over. Those water chestnuts get in the mud and are good for 12 years to sprout again, so no matter the chemical or even the hand pulling treatments, they're in there. It's a fantastic bass and pickerel lake--when healthy, which does include some vegetation, but those water chestnuts will choke a lake to death--make it anoxic. What other lake is that many acres, all five-feet deep, so with appropriate aquatic vegetation, fish habitat everywhere?