Wiers not opening this year

["W"]

Smalls can not justify why we are saving one marsh when every one on the west side has more tide flow, closer to channel?

Ask anyone who makes a living of this lake and has been here over 30 years...they are all against the weirs !!!

No person but a few like Duck BUTTer and Biggie Smalls want to blow smoke because there job is to blow smoke

You cut those weirs out and 100 more years of nothing changing but better fishing and healthier estuary

Thats a Fact Jack!!! As Stulb Said 2005-2006 best the lake has been in years


"Save the Weigongrass"

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by "W"

Smalls can not justify why we are saving one marsh when every one on the west side has more tide flow, closer to channel?

Ask anyone who makes a living of this lake and has been here over 30 years...they are all against the weirs !!!

No person but a few like Duck BUTTer and Biggie Smalls want to blow smoke because there job is to blow smoke

You cut those weirs out and 100 more years of nothing changing but better fishing and healthier estuary

Thats a Fact Jack!!! As Stulb Said 2005-2006 best the lake has been in years


"Save the Weigongrass"

You take out the wiers and you will kill that marsh, the shrimping will be great because the shrimp will have plenty of decaying vegetation to eat, the trout will have plenty of shrimp to eat for many many years, the duck hunting will go to crap because there is no food, it will be open water and mud, and you will never get it back.

The west side marsh IS NOT doing just fine by the way, look at it in different years on aerial photos. A wier (wiers) would help that area as well, and I wouldn't be surprised if some aren't in talks right now.


and as far as the 75 years comment, nothing happens overnight, that is a blink of an eye in geologic terms, and you can see the erosion caused by the ship channel simply by going to Google Earth. Its eroding land away every single day, and its not a government conspiracy or CCA or DU or Delta Waterfowl or in the interest of anyone or anything but SAVING marshland that benefits every single one of us

75 years ago we wouldn't be having this conversation, because you would have been bass fishing in Calcasieu Lake

[MathGeek]

Originally Posted by "W"

No person but a few like Duck BUTTer and Biggie Smalls want to blow smoke because there job is to blow smoke

You cut those weirs out and 100 more years of nothing changing but better fishing and healthier estuary

Thats a Fact Jack!!! As Stulb Said 2005-2006 best the lake has been in years


"Save the Weigongrass"

If you cut the weirs, the lake will be on the fast track to a quality of fishing closer to Galveston Bay. The marsh that feeds the lake will disappear. This is not just the position of a couple of self-interested ecofreaks: this is broad consensus among all the scientists who have considered the question. Only anglers who are short sighted in their outlook take your position.

Open water with little vegetation is simply not the high quality habitat for bait. Less bait -> less fish.

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

You take out the wiers and you will kill that marsh, the shrimping will be great because the shrimp will have plenty of decaying vegetation to eat, the trout will have plenty of shrimp to eat for many many years, the duck hunting will go to crap because there is no food, it will be open water and mud, and you will never get it back.

The west side marsh IS NOT doing just fine by the way, look at it in different years on aerial photos. A wier (wiers) would help that area as well, and I wouldn't be surprised if some aren't in talks right now.

and as far as the 75 years comment, nothing happens overnight, that is a blink of an eye in geologic terms, and you can see the erosion caused by the ship channel simply by going to Google Earth. Its eroding land away every single day, and its not a government conspiracy or CCA or DU or Delta Waterfowl or in the interest of anyone or anything but SAVING marshland that benefits every single one of us

75 years ago we wouldn't be having this conversation, because you would have been bass fishing in Calcasieu Lake

This is right. W, you know I'm not slow to disagree with environmental types when their science is lacking, but it is not lacking here. Sometimes their argument is oversimplified, blaming the ship channel, when other man made canals also contribute and hurricanes also play a big role. But the bottom line is that the weirs are needed, and their operation is sound.

[AceArcher]

Originally Posted by MathGeek

If you cut the weirs, the lake will be on the fast track to a quality of fishing closer to Galveston Bay. The marsh that feeds the lake will disappear. This is not just the position of a couple of self-interested ecofreaks: this is broad consensus among all the scientists who have considered the question. Only anglers who are short sighted in their outlook take your position.

Open water with little vegetation is simply not the high quality habitat for bait. Less bait -> less fish.



This is right. W, you know I'm not slow to disagree with environmental types when their science is lacking, but it is not lacking here. Sometimes their argument is oversimplified, blaming the ship channel, when other man made canals also contribute and hurricanes also play a big role. But the bottom line is that the weirs are needed, and their operation is sound.

Well said!