grand bayou weirs
 

can you go back there at night? Or is this one of the places where you have to wait for daylight?

Pretty sure the enture area closes at sundown.

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Cannot go in before sunrise and gotta be out before sunset

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thanks for that link, been lookin for something like that

You can if you like prison time!!!


Also during the shrimp run they had 3 undercovers that were sitting on the bank and wrote about 35 tickets in a week for people throwing castnets, fishing lines and crab lines in water before legal sunrise

passage
 

how you get back there..i saw couple of boats killing the redfish and nice trout on the marsh side while we were sucking on the lake side
passage only through lamberts?

Boat passage is at Grand Bayou only.

first weir
 

what is the name of the first wier from heberts?

buddies went Friday afternoon and stayed back there after dark some time before midnight a LDWF officer walked out on the wier and told them to come back through the wier to the lake and get their ticket. Tide was pulling hard from the marsh into the lake and when they approched the wier to exit the marsh the motor died and the current pulled them sideways pining them against the wier. the current was so strong it actually pulled the boat under the water. they were able to climb up onto the wier and hang out with the LDWF agent until the tide slacked enough for them to drag the boat through and pump out the water........BAD DEAL.........................so lesson here dont go back there after dark, dont let others drive your boat, ware your life jacket. everyine was ok but he lost his 4 stroke, 3 rods and reels a yeti and a K2, and a good nights sleep. He gained a valuable lesson and a ticket.

So if anyone finds a yeti floating around in the lake, it has an 8lb trout in it they were going to weigh in for the star :-)

TB

BTW let me know if yall find his icechest

I wonder if since they were fishing illegally, their fish would have been confiscated, including the 8#.

Fish could not have been weighed into the STAR tournament since it was caught illegally. Would have been disqualified

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That sucks man, glad they made it out alright though


on a lighter note:

that trout will be fine for upwards of a month if that Yeti was pre-chilled and the ice was frozen from inside out:)

There seems to be a lot of wrong in this story. Glad everybody was ok though.


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So since the fish was caught with plenty of daylight left it would be illegal?

Chances are if boat wouldn't have sank, then game wardens would have confiscated fish, crabs or shrimp leaving the weirs since boat was back there illegally after dark. If you catch shrimp or crabs over limit behind weirs they confiscate both. Would of been hard to prove fish was caught with daylight left when warden busted boat many hours after daylight. Would have been interesting scenerio. STAR rules state all participants and fish must comply with rules and regulations of state governing body. Since your buddy was ticketed illegally behind a restricted area it would have been interesting.

And Dink- fish has to be hooked by angler on conventional rod, hook and line exclusively, doubt hooking the chest would qualify.



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As stated yes it is still a illegal fish because once you break the sundown mark everything becomes illegal
As stated it would of been taken and probably another ticket for taking fish after sundown

I guess in America, You're no longer innocent until proven guilty. Do the wardens just say it was caught after dark and it is so? They have no proof either way

I bet the skeeters was bad

Read up on the NDAA bill obama passed. :shaking:

Holy moly. That is a crazy story. I'm still stuck on the:

"a LDWF officer walked out on the wier and told them to come back through the wier to the lake and get their ticket. Tide was pulling hard from the marsh into the lake and when they approched the wier to exit the marsh the motor died and the current pulled them sideways pining them against the wier. the current was so strong it actually pulled the boat under the water"

That is nuts! Glad they are okay.

Same rule applies to many rules on the lake. If you go to beach and catch a limit of reds then decide to make a little run offshore past the state line and target bigger fish then come back in and get stopped and checked before you reach state waters then you will be ticketed for each red even though they were caught in legal waters- trust me they will still give you a ticket. Same applies to crabs and shrimp. You can have lots more outside the weirs, but the moment you cross the line going into the weirs you better not have in possesion more than is allowed behind the weirs. I know lots of people who have made this mistake and got everything taken from them even though crabs and shrimp were caught legally but when they were checked they were behind the weirs. As "W" stated, once they were back there after dark then everything in their possesion became illegal.

How wide is the entrance at grand bayou?? Went back there last year in my alum boat but have not attempted it yet with my new boat. I have a 21 ft nautic star, i should make it through right?? Want to go catch some crabs next time onshore.

It will fit but there is very little room for error....im sure the local fiberglass shops get plenty of work from it.

I take my kids to catch crabs back there in my 22ft NS. You will be fine. If the tide is REALLY high, I do have to take down my grab rail. Other than that, it is no prob.

It sounds weird but that is about the 3rd time a boat has been sunk behind the weirs this year. Same thing, strong currents pull boat sideways and get stuck in the weir. If you hesitate one bit it will suck you in, gotta be careful. Couple months ago boat got stuck sideways in weir and sunk, current held boat against weir. Trapped about 6 boats behind the weir until tide stopped going out which was 8 hours later.

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That's a very very bad night.

I was behind the weir once when the tide was rushing back into the lake. But here's what I did and it worked like a charm. I turned the boat around and faced back into the marsh and kept the throttle forward and worked it back and forth to hold my position against the current. I just slowly crept back to the opening and had buddies on the back deck to guide the rear into the bay and as the flow wanted to suck me out faster I just increased the throttle and trickled out the other side then let off the gas as I was out in the open. Worked like a charm. Don't know if its a good way or not but it worked for me. But that was 10 years ago and haven't been across the weir since.