Lac Pool
 

Anyone got any idea what the water situation is at the pool? I hope it caught some water with last weeks downpours!

more than likely will be wet.....


LOL----couldnt pass up the chance to be a smarta$$

I hope so too!

After what I saw last year you might be surprised.


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I did talk with a guy last night that went and looked in the pool from the Bell City ditch. He stated it was still 1 to 1 1/2 feet below the little spillway. So not great but also not terribel. If we do get some rain before March 15 we might be ok. He also stated there was a good grass kill. I am ready to get out there too!!

Man I didnt make there one time last year. All I heard was horror stories and I didnt know my way around good enough to risk it. I know how to get to my one hole and thats it. Doin it big this year.

I can't wait to get back in there myself!

+1

Went down the ditch and took a look as well, it was very muddy, mostly because there was no grass to filter the water.

I will be honest, even if the level comes up to normal, which is another 2-3 feet, the fishing will be sub par at best. A lot of fish were killed last year as a result of low water, also heard from agents that the spawn was probably affected tremendously as well.

just my 2 cents, but that place has been completely mis managed. They spent a **** load of tax payers money to install pumps for nothing to let the water get so low to have a fish kill. All the money and time ron castell put into that place to make it was it used to be was flushed down the crapper.

Why dont they pump?

Salinity too high

It was made for ducks. Not fish. Wlf could care less if there was one fish in there. It was intended for a bird sanctuary. A lot of the bass that were stocked in there were paid for by fishermen that fished that place heavily.

I totally understand that it was made for a bird santuary, and i was one of the fisherman who contrubuted to the stocking of the reserve that's why it chaps my *** when i see it manged like it is.

I understand your disappointment but you have to know going into it when paying to stock it that the people who run it will let every fish die before they pump water in there. Especially if the salinity is slightly elevated.

agree 100% just really sucks looking back at the quality of fish that was produced in there.

I agree. I've had some good times out there.

The hurricanes washed tons of salty water in there and everything was fine. Why can't they pump when the salinity is just a little high? I'm no scientist but wouldn't more water mean more area for ducks to hang out?

Agreed X1000000000000000000000


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Oh I agree fully with you. I'm just sayin why they won't. The hurricanes did destroy the vegetation in the marsh which IMO helped out. It opened the marsh up a lot.not its been 6 years and the vegetation is taking over again. That's why they don't want salty water. Kills their precious vegetation. I'll tell you the year after Rita the huntin side of lacassine was phenomenal. It was open plenty place to hunt and no people. Now there's double the people and 1/4 of place to hunt due to vegetation.

Now I am depressed!!!

This is just from my experience working in Cameron the past year with the state marsh revegetation program, but the salinities in a lot of places have been a lot higher than you would want to pump. I've seen places where the salinity was 36 ppt, that's over gulf stream, and all the widgeon grass these guys planted was dead. When you've got salinities 25 or higher in a lot of places, the veg you would want for your ducks to feed on dies out. And as someone already said, lacassine is managed for waterfowl, so they're not gonna do anything to jeopardize the waterfowl habitat.

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Are there any "public" meetings or advisory board for this reserve ???

Thanks

Not that I know of....the management is at the discretion of the biologists and complex manager. That being said, those decisions have to be based on sound science and the goals of the refuge, which, as previously stated, are oriented towards nongame birds and waterfowl.

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That's too bad...

I would have to imagine that most if not all who fish there would not mind paying a "seasonal fee" of sorts, if their opinions could be voiced...

50-100 bucks/yr/boat or /fisherman could offset allot of operating expenses :rolleyes:...

Just a thought...

this is what i've always said! You pay for a permit to fish the burns and all that money goes god knows where, cause they don't do anything to that place. Come june the water is so low that you can't even launch. Sell permits to fish the pool and put it back in there for the fisherman, but they could give a rats *** about the fish. They do consider it a wildlife refuge the last time i checked fish was a part of wildlife right?

yes
 

I always thought so but I dont think they are there

No way in hell I'm payin a fee for something out tax dollars already pay for. Lacassine is one of those things we can complain about all we won't but nothing will change. Do you honestly think that if you pay $100 per boat that they will use the money in a reasonable manner. Remember guys. This is the government your dealing with.

Yea I hear ya', but its always nice to dream about a semi private refuge with monster bass swimin' around :rolleyes:

For that I would pay !!!

Hell, we are paying for it and can't use it now !!!

Exactly! Just goes to show you when the goverment/STATE is involved its always a cluster!