Restocking lacassine
 

Got this in a text earlier today

All, FWS and LDWF are restocking the pool on Thursday April 26 around 10am. If a person wants to help placing fish in pool, they must contact Lacassine office to get on helper list and have a 100 quart ice chest to transport fish. Spread the word. Call office at 337-774-5923.

Just called in and put my name on the list and they need more people to do the same.

Dang I would be there if it wasnt on a thursaday. I heard they were doing 2 stages of stocking.

Brings to mind one questions.......................If Lacassine is "ONLY for the ducks" why does the refuge management want to spend TAX PAYER $$$$ to restock fish in there??????????? To see if they can lower the water level again and kill em all over again?????

you act as if you're upset they are restocking. is that the case?? what do u suggest they do? not restock? :confused:

Because honestly, they could say it's only for polar bears, i could care less what they say, as long as they're restocking the bass. and they'll take your tax dollars no matter what and spend it however they please anyway, so you'll just have to deal with that! :spineyes:

IMHO, i would love to see a 'lake fork' style slot limit permanantly in place at lacassine. keep a limit of under 16" bass and one over 24". imagine the end result of that! :eek:

Lol. I don't think polar bears would service in laccasine.


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The Pool is Ducks #1 ....fish #10.... But I guess they have to make the public happy also...


50'000 bass fingering you will have about half of that make one year of lucky

Like I said earlier I heard they were doing a second stage stocking of 50,000

I talked to a game warden in Hayes and asked him the same thing. He said they haven't lowered it for a few years. He said in the dead heat of summer they can lose as much as a half an inch a day due to evaporation and the only reason they pulled the boards last year was to let water in

Did the office say they were putting 50,000 in? That same warden told me a number higher than that

I heard 50,000 from the refuge biologist ...spoke to him at the store in Bell City Saturday ...

at least there spending it on restocking fish instead of letting politicians spend it on something stupid!

Like what?
 

prostitutes!!!!!!

I would love to be there but don't get home from offshore that day till 1.

Does anyone remember********>

In early 2010, when they finished dividing up the pool, they isolated the section east of the new launch and drained that section so that they could "dry and burn" it. Then in mid summer 2010, without any attempt at burning, they removed the boards separating the western portion from the easter portions and allowed the western portion to re-fill the eastern section...................effectively reducing the amount of water in the ENTIRE marsh by almost 1/3. Am I the only one that realizes this??? And yes, they lose quite a bit of water due to evaporation but lets not help it out by draining 1/3 of the water out there!!!!!

I heard they doing it in two stages, fingerlings from a hactery first, then their waiting for some florida bass to get about 6inchs that Rockefeller is growing. Not sure if that's true just heard it from a couple people

exactly what I heard.

No, Im Just PISSED!!!!! Not that they are restocking it..... Pissed that they have told everyone for years that "ITs for the ducks" but they stocked it with florida strain bass several times starting in the Mid '80s to "improve the fishing"......That they "don't have the resources to enforce a size/length limit other than the state wide limits" then after the drought of 2000 they implemented a 14" minimum 5 fish limit.......That they continue to tell the locals what the locals want to hear and do what they(refuge management) want to do and think that all these locals are too "STUPID" to figure it out. MY statement was more of food for thought for people that haven't or won't think about what the management has done to this place. I remember when if you came in with less than 15lbs(3 fish stringer) in a dogfight you were gonna get ur feelings hurt.

It is ducks 1st....but fishing is a part..so as a refuge I guess they have to keep it legit

I completely understand that the sole purpose of the refuge is for the migratory birds, but let me ask you this when was the last time anyone saw 200 trucks lined up at the front gate to go bird watching?

Not to mention the boats help keep the canals and trails clear during the summer. I bet with no traffic due to no fish it would get pretty bad. (Not sure if this is true just a thought)

I had heard the reason they drained the east side in the middle of the year a couple years ago is that they found a bunch of sylvania not sure if that's spelled right, but they didn't want it to spread in the marsh so they drained it and let it die then pulled the boards. I know from experience, we hunt a freshwater marsh just east of laccassine off of the river that this stuff spreads fast and it's nearly impossible to control.

Bingo. Bingo. Bingo.

I look at it similar to the basic principle of supply and demand. To me, if they are going to say they don't have the resources, etc. then why not do the permit system? Atleast that money could go and help them be able to get the "resources".

Just putting this out there, not trying to argue but birdwatchers spend billions each year. You probably don't see them lined up during hunting season because the birds they are wanting to see are coming thru in September and then March/April. Its a pretty big deal right now down around Johnson Bayou and also on the other side of the state on Grand Isle. Birds migrating across the gulf finally get to the land and are so worn out that they literally fall down and tumble when they hit the ground. Birdwatchers come from all over to see stuff like this. There was a Migratory Bird Festival on Grand Isle last weekend actually, people from all over the country. Sabine, Lac, and Cameron Prairie are there for migratory birds, but mostly waterbirds and waterfowl. Fishing is just extra. Our NWRs are very much on the chopping block right now for funding, so they can't manage the extra things right now. Cameron Prairie needs to be burned every so often, Lacassine as well, but the funding isn't there to do it anymore. The good things never last:redface:

IF there was salvinia in Lacassine like someone said, then it was probably the best decision just to drain that sucker at the expense of the fish than to let that stuff take over. Its bad stuff, and unfortunately its here to stay. The herbicide is very expensive and you can only treat so much at a time without hurting the fish and the health of the waterway.

Understood....