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In the 1960s and early '70s, the Keys were constructed in a historic wetland populated by native aquatic plants such as coontail, sago pondweed and Richardson's pondweed.
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I’m two thirds the way up on a small ridge on a small flat walking and all of a sudden a recognizing deafening BBUUUZZZZZZZZZZZ literally right between my feet with about a ¾ inch on both sides to spare is a really big Diamond Back Rattlesnake (also known as a 'coontail' rattler) all curled up and really pissed!
Puff This! 2008
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Is it a western diamondback rattlesnake, a coontail, or a Texas rattler?
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Chug an XCalibur Xz2 Zell Pop next to deadfalls along the shoreline and over coontail grassbeds.
A STATE-BY-STATE GUIDE TO THE HOTTEST LAKES, RIVERS, STREAMS, AND HONEY HOLES IN AMERICA 2007
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The lower estuary is dominated by American lotus, sago pondweed, coontail and to a lesser extent white water lily.
Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio 2007
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Sandy Holes in Grass: Milfoil, hydrilla, coontail, and other aquatic vegetation can grow thickly on shallow flats and points.
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Anytime smallmouths live in lakes with aquatic vegetation, such as reeds, coontail, milfoil, and pondweed (a leafy plant that many fishermen call "cabbage"), they relate to this growth.
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All fished roughly 2 to 10 feet of water, relying on a plentiful crop of submerged coontail in the creek, where bass were bunched up in the cold weather.
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The only major Lay Lake creek with grass in it, the area holds a lot of food, along with two feeder creeks with channels, stumps, coontail grass, slime and shell bed points, all good habitats for bass.
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Students organized the Potter Lake Project last year and scooped eight tons of coontail from the lake.
LJWorld.com stories: News J-W editorials 2010
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