re: Harassment on a Local Lake

Can you fish tops put out by another person? Of course.
I have my rules of etiquette and I just do not do it. I should have just left it at that.
My apologies to the person I called dumbass.
That is not who I am.
Main thing is to make the outdoors enjoyable. Respect the earth and fellow outdoorsman.

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At one time when that place had grass the fish were stacked in there.

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It was glorious

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Respect the earth and fellow outdoorsman.

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I'd think it's pretty disrespectful of fellow outdoorsman to think that dropping some brush in a public lake makes that area off limits to them.

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In a private parking lot? Brilliant comparison

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Not much difference. Claiming a private spot that nobody else can use on property that you don’t own

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Is the lake polluted or something worse?

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Decomposing sweet gum, cane, and five gallon buckets have created a herbicide similar to round up.

You need to post here what lake this and post the GPS coordinates to the brush piles. Also, post this info on state fishing message boards and crappie message boards include the GPS location. Tell your friends but warn them of crazy man.

I have personally sank three brush piles in the last two years. They were a lot of work and none have produced a ton of fish. Anybody can fish them whenever they want. First come first serve. With Active Target, forward scan, side scan it really is not hard to find people's brush piles. If I see a boat sitting in one spot a long time I will swing by the area on my way out and see if they left. I will find what he was fishing and mark it down and I will be probably be starting there my next fishing trip. I have done this so many times and have more brush piles marked than I can fish on a trip.

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This has piqued my curiosity. Why won't the grass reestablish itself? Is the lake polluted or something worse?

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The lake bottom is almost straight silt from the local farmers that had been dumping their farmland runoff into the lake for decades. These farmers were pretty much using the lake as their personal retention ponds from what I've been told.
The drawdowns, which somehow cost the parish and state millions to do, were supposed to harden the bottom. Their reasoning was that the grass would be more likely to grow on top of hardened silt over mush bottom. The water quality itself is actually pretty good from the LDWF studies post-drawdown.

A few of us land owners on the lake got some great looking hydrilla from a guy's local property and we all tried various ways to plant it around our banks. We tried everything from enclosing it in chickenwire, to stacking it in tires, tossing it out to the water line daily, to hanging it from the docks. Every piece we put out was being feasted on by grass carp within a few hours once it hit the water.
That lake will never get the vegetation back.

Not exactly true what you are saying. In 92 the LDWF attempted to put pellets to control the grass. Because some landowners did not like it all around their piers. That same year hurricane Andrew passed and turned the lake over. All of this happened when the parish was doing a watershed project that winter and there was monsoon rains all winter. Causing the sediment from diving the canals to cover the shell beds and silting many of the canals. It has been a battle ever since. It was not until the now parish president which was the representative pushed for the rehab of the lake. It’s getting better. But no where near where it was.

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grass carp

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That's a variable that hasn't been mentioned before now. Agriculture runoff and grass carp killed the grass? What do grass carp eat if there's no vegetation, I wonder?