Mr Smalls and MathGeek, first off I want to thank each of you for the insite you bring to this discussion.
I have always thought that the most of the people that remember the "good old days" just weren't looking far enough back. The river used to run through Calcasieu Lake before the ship channel was cut. Also the fact that the ship channel hasn't always been dredged to 42', in the early days it was much shallower.
If the Salt Water Barrier in Westlake would have been built at the mouth of the Calcasieu River none of these conversations would be taking place at all.
I can remember when I was young there were fresh water marshes south of the Salt Water Barrier. We.used to catch bass, brim and white perch behind our camp on the river at the end of Bagdad Rd in Westlake. In the front of the camp we could sometimes catch specks, reds and flounder the same day we caught the freshwater fish in the back.
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