Sportsmen report pollutants off Calcasieu Point Landing
 

HERE WE GO!!!!........Now just from looking at the pictures I can tell you that its just exhaust smut from crew boats....
One looks like a tide line with algae..... Man o Man....BP oil is all the way up to 210...

CALCASIEU PARISH, LA (KPLC) - Sports fishermen watch nervously as black sooty stuff and little chunks float on the water off Calcasieu Point.
Everyone is worried about whether oil from the Gulf will eventually find its way to Southwest Louisiana, and there's no indication the stuff is from the BP spill. Still, it is pollution of some type and it's not supposed to be there.
Here at Calcasieu Point Landing the whole point is fishing and crabbing. It's a favorite spot for those who love to fish so it's easy to understand why sports fishermen like Derick Burnett of Westlake are upset to see pollutants in the water. "Monday I brought my three year old son for his first fishing trip and I saw a glob of what looked like red tar, it was just one big glob and I was hoping it wasn't oil because my three year old caught his first fish and now it's all he's talking about his fishing and then I come out here this morning and I find thick spots all over and it's just breaking my heart.
Whatever it was, folks here hope it was a one time deal and not a sign of things to come. Says Burnett, "It looked like thin sheets of oil and then I also seen big spots with sort of a brownish tint to it, and then little chunks. I'm 99% sure it's oil. I don't know if its from the Gulf oil spill or the Port Arthur one or one of these ships just dumping stuff over the side, but it's definitely oil."
Charles Tolliver of Baton Rouge usually goes to Slidell to fish, but lately he says, "We came down this way because we were afraid of the oil."
He's not sure what to think about the stuff he sees here. "We don't ever know about Mother Nature. Don't know what Mother Nature's going to do. It wasn't there last week. I don't know whether it's oil or oily film coming down, or what. But I hope not. I hope it don't get this far and destroy our whole coast."
U.S. Coast Guard officials are investigating to try to identify the materials spotted by fishermen. We showed our video to officials in the local USCG office. They said they'd have a crew in the area investigate and take samples to see if they can identify what's in the water. They don't expect to have any results for a couple of weeks.

Oh man! There goes yalls trophy trout! Then the crabs! The media will say its a foot thick and 10 miles wide! haha

O yea!! This is what media is for!! How many times have you seen crew boat with side exhaust take off???? This happens everyday all day on the ship channel! UNREAL!! I sent an email to Theresa about the story

Comeon w I never see a crewboat that isnt running clean! hahaha

Or it could be the coke from that clifton ridge plant. They always got black crap in da ship channel.

True. The left picture is funny looking. Looks like ash or powder. Oh my GOD!!! The dispersants are turning the oil to powder form and its going to get blown throughout the entire US!!! Run!!!!!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Everything is toxic..........Get out now.......No one fish Big Lake for the next 8 days!!!!

I will tell you when you can return!! Stay out!! you could become toxic waste if you fish this area!!! STAY FAR AWAY...

OMG
 

The picture on the left is coke dust on the water from possibly Alcola ; which is located just east of Cal.Pt. The other picture is up for grabs. Diffently will leave a stain on the ole bateau;especially a white hull.:help:

LMAO gotta love KPLC....Shawn Braquet loves em...especially that Lee Peck dude...

Are you saying Shawn is gay too??? :eek:

If that Lee Peck kid ain't gay, he sure is passing up a good chance.
He gots all the qualities and acts just like one.

lmao no..

Lee peck kid would change the story,etc back when all that stuff happend

I knowed what you mean.
Just jerking Shawn's chain.

O lawd..... De gots erl n big lake.
Gonna haf ta call my family and move da Robinson family reunion to another spot.
Maybe mr Obama will pay our travel and relocation expenses....
Gawd bless big lake!!

Just saw on the local news, all fishing is closed from the 210 bridge to the pass until further notice..........

good thing i been slinging north of 210...:*****:

that is just coke dust


worked at the port of lake charles 2 summers ago at the coke terminal

worse summer of my life

my truck is still stained from that stuff

I hit a rip sunday about a mile offshore looking for triple tail, didnt see any Tail but saw limits of Trout, Reds, and Flounder dead floating in it.

Man quit it....john you have some pics of this?

Reds I believe because the shrimp boats kill them all the time...trout is hard to believe

Pogy boats kill a few Reds too.

Yea, that poor dude was so upset:cry:, I think he just wanted to see himself on TV. We all know it's not oil from BP, those who fish anyway. That's coke dust, still a mess but it's been here and it's not gonna stop being here. Some people's children:spineyes:

Ban big lake B>S The only way I'm going to stop fishin it is: my death or it drys up completely you'll here me?:*****::*****::*****:

Reds
 

Seems it has been a little hush hush but from what I am hearing there were hundreds if not thousands of dead Bull Reds on the beach between Holly Beach and Sabine. It was so bad they buried them or burned them on the beach. I agre with Ray, if this is true it more than likely was caused by the pogy boats which have been working the area.

Gater

I agree with Yak and Will-E, at Calcasieu Point, it's Alcoa's coke fines.
That other stuff looks like ballast water to me. It happens all the time, but it doesn't make it right. Nasty for your boat, nasty for the environment. Sounds like a job for DEQ, no call EPA, those tree huggers get excited about anything. Tell them that there are some some fish floating around Calcasieu Point that don't even have any meat on their skeletons.

There is something that we can do to help these little oil spills here. We can help mother nature by sprinkling some oil eating bacteria on those slicks eventually the
bacteria will eat it up. There is also a product made in Mexico called Velete' . It is a fibrous product that floats on top of the water that is filled that has the bacteria in it. As the oil is eaten by bacteria and settles it can be a food source for the fish food chain. Maybe someone could find out about being a distributor for them in our area.
That we can help out a little ourselves if any oil eventually gets into the Calcasieu estuary.

Anyone else see that orange crap.....and it smelled like crap.....at the washout yesterday? What the hell is that stuff?