its a good cold sun shining day
 

after church, dad and I are gonna take the yaks onto the river for a good old calcasieu river float trip up here near kinder.

hopefully hammer some woodies, teal, and mallards

well howd it go?/

not that great. we took our little river skiff, but the water was too high and all in the trees, i had one good shot on a wood duck and flat out missed, took two other shots on a woodduck and a huge monster of a greehead, but both were well out of range.

if the water comes down about a foot, it will be on

Yesterday as I crossed the Hwy 171 bridge, for the first time in a month I could see some mud around the trees. The north wind had blown some of the water out to create a low tide.

If the water is still high in Kinder, it ain't good for Big Lake.
The water in Contraband Bayou has been low for a week,
but still fresh.

Water is about 5- 8 foot above normal right now

Salinity in Lake Charles is still below 1 ppt.
Hackberry has been steady ~2 ppt, but finally moving up to 6 or 7 ppt.
Cameron is running between 5 and 20 ppt, depending on the tides.

Maybe in a week or 2.....with not much rain.....it will start to get some salt in the water.

Ray.....I passed by the new boat dock over at the CC, and I don't see where it looks like there will be any lights out on the water. Maybe there will be some along the bank????

West fork is low.. Very low

They don't have the elect. on the docks yet. I think it will be in service
around March.