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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.

    Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories 2009

  • 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

  • Is it a western diamondback rattlesnake, a coontail, or a Texas rattler?

    Zantedeschia elliottiana - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • Sandy Holes in Grass: Milfoil, hydrilla, coontail, and other aquatic vegetation can grow thickly on shallow flats and points.

    The 14 Best Hot Spots for Spawing Largemouth Bass 2004

  • 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.

    Smallmouths From Weeds 2002

  • 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.

    Sand Mountain Reporter: News 2010

  • 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.

    Sand Mountain Reporter: News 2010

  • 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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