I say it's same mon thru thurs! Fri sat sun Slows from boats a lil but usually still get en just takes longer

I don't think the oil had crap to do with it. Breton island sucks because of Kevin ford , thophile bougsious sp? , lsm ect not bp but because of 38' fountains w 3 275's trying to "stalk " big trout at te islands l m a o. It's a freakin circus over there . My Mahoney hole in fourchon sucked this year not b cuz of oil but it got silted in

I love twin motors who back down on anchor

Louisiana Sportsman raises real concerns in this months issue. Great read

Wow not sure what to say, other than all post I see from guides over on East side of state on SC or La Spts all stating they tearing up the trout and filling their chest and satisfying their guest! Sounds contradictory to me on this article, JMO.


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Its all politics .....

Yep.... Shady bastards

Haven't been a single time this year, therefore it sucks.

The New Orleans Times Picayune's Bob Marshall talks again about this years Speckled Trout season.
http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.s..._river_default

It really doesn't matter if the problem is corexit , lake of water lack of salt or lack of skills. I said from day one that the reduction in speck limits over on the west side was just the foot in the door for a statewide reduction!
EVERY TIME i asked anyone that had anything to do w/ the reduction if this was true?
I got the same pat answer. We have no plans to reduce the trout limits statewide AT THIS TIME! It's coming and just like the west side It will be rammed thru w/ no scientific basis and there's not a damn thing we as fishermen will be able to do about it!

I agree that there are lots of politics involved and the oil/corexit is easy to place blame on for lack of fishing success by certain areas this year. Fish can get out of polluted areas and swim further into the marsh/bay or wherever, the problem is that their eggs and larvae can not, we may be missing entire age classes of fish and crabs and shrimp, all the way down the food chain. The brown shrimp season that just closed was the worst in 24 years (blame it on oil? who knows). I listened to Secretary Barham say this and he is very adamant about not settling with BP right away because the effects may be well drawn out for many years. He is not mad at them, but wants them to make it right. LDWF can not speak openly about other facets, the lawyers have issued a gag order, he wanted so bad to tell the facts about what he has seen these last 2 years related to our fisheries but was not allowed to. He did say we will be seeing many more negative effects for years to come. Alaska once had a thriving herring fishery before the Valdez oil spill, now you can not catch enough to warrant fishing for them (I know its a completely different system and we have oil eating bacteria blah blah). Their is still a considerable amount of oil in our marshes, Sec Barham went out and personally went into a marsh that was declared 'safe' and stuck a jar in the mud and pulled up oil and mud. Their are studies (I will find the link later) just published about the effects of Corexit on the food chain and its horrible, they used the same concentrations that were found in the water after the spill and the results are not good for us.

As far as the lack of trout, I don't believe that, I think they are further up in the bays and marsh because they can get out the way of polluted water, its that the trout need good places to spawn and may not find them in that type of system.