Not to mention most of these places were never trout habitat to begin with. Its no different than southwest Louisiana.....Big Lake and Prien Lake. If you could go back 200 years, heck, probably only 150 years, Ponchartrain wouldn't have held trout. It would have held bass. Didn't there used to be cypress all over out there? I know there was in Maurepas. Cypress don't grow in salt water, bud!!
Why is trout fishing the measure that everyone goes by? Its not like that species is some amazing indicator of the health of the ecosystem. Go to any of the top trout spots in Louisiana today, and I bet 100 years ago, they weren't there in most of them. It was too fresh. They are only there because humans degraded the system to a point that they could live there.
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