love them.

hate them.

the reality of it all is its a very apparent problem 

this picture was taken on 5/3/09 at a beach in swallow cove at lake mead.

the deal is i havent really seen them on sand...i only see em on rock surfaces on lake mead...or trash on the bottom of the lake...like brads picture the part of the beach where my boat was parked at there was a cup sitting at the bottum of the lake covered in muscles...this is an issue that i dont think will be resolved and the best way about it is to make sure and not contaminate other lakes...believe it or not lake mead is the first place for these things to show up on i wanna say north america...

no different then the ones you see on the pier at the ocean....



I wonder if they have a predetor...like a fish or something that feeds on them.

or maybe a virus that can be introduced to kill them off, but not impact anything else.

im no biologist, im just thinkin out loud

whats funny is back in 2001 lake mead had an algae bloom...the lake fucken stank it was green and just nasty...then they introduced something to eat it up maybe it was the mussles...everything has a predator...but you said it yourself this has become a problem...and once you introduce something else to eat the mussles...that too will become a problem its a vicious circle really! what is funny is where swallow and boulder basin and make mead marina are is where the algae bloom was located...and even funnier is that is where the intake tower for vegas water is located...makes you wonder!

here's a pic from 2001

Lets tell all the     they taste like chicken

Beat me to it ! Two minds... But I heard they make a good stir fry and.... their a treasured aphrodesiac (sp)