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Originally Posted by Duck Butter
The limit of trout is probably the very least important thing for the east side fisheries. We are losing land at an incredible rate. You can see it for yourself if you just drive over the new bridge in Leeville. The old roads go under water often, and the places you caught fish the year before look different each year due to erosion and subsidence. We better all take good pictures every tiime you go to Grand Isle because it is going to look different even in a decade. Even Elmer's Island looks different from what it looked like 10 or 15 years ago due to sea level rise. Its very noticeable  |
I agree, well said. I only fish the Grand Isle and Leeville area once a year now since we moved but for 15 years we fished there almost every weekend. When we go back the changes we see now from erosion are both astounding and very disturbing. I have found from talking with several guides and residents of the island, generally speaking fishing in that area is not as strong as it once was. Oil spill related? Limits being to high? Erosion? Maybe a function of all three? I am a CPA not a biologist so I won't speculate but a full assessement with subsequent action would seem to be needed.