Sabine marsh is starting to open up quite a bit and it isn't stopping. Go look at aerials, even after Ike/Gustav year it is still getting deeper and losing marsh in a lot of places.
One of our best spots opened up after Ike. I mean it was on for like 2 years. You couldn't get in there except with a canoe, and even that took a little work. Maybe one or two groups of hunters we would pass on the way to our spots. We piled the ducks and times were good. Well the marsh continued that opening process until boats could just drive in with trolling motors or outboard motors and blaze right into the spots we hunted a mile back or more. During the freeze a couple of years ago a guy with 3 hunters came idling through our spread with a bass boat??? He came from further back in the marsh too. We were 1.5 miles back in the marsh.
Last year we made the final trip to our dwindling honey hole on opening day. There were like 20-25 boats in the same area. Hunters every 200-400 yards. It was dissapointing to say the least.
Of course you take the good with the bad. With the opening of the marsh comes new opportunities for new areas, but you've got to wonder how long that will last. There is only so much land mass that can open up before it all goes to water.
Not sure what the solution is just wanted my .005 cents in there.
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