Fishing the lsu lakes

I wouldn't eat anything out of there. The runoff is pretty bad.

A couple of guys in my fraternity got fined by W&F for running trout lines in the lakes. They did catch an 81 pound turtle that tasted pretty good.

Everyone I've asked says the same thing, used to be decent, now its practically dead. It needs to be dredged bad, but the project would be way too expensive because of hundreds of buried cypress stumps. Until that happens the oxygen level will keep dropping and it will keep filling up, and it's almost shallow enough to walk across now.

several years ago the La state record large mouth came from university lake. also, a bucket fisherman caught a MONSTER catfish in one of the lakes 5-10 yrs ago.
i'd suggest fishing from a canoe, at night, with a date. i've had better luck that way

I've seen some people catching bluegill in the ditches (the one by miller hall) with a fly rod

that lake is so eutrophic

all I see are turtles

and geese

The lake was dredged before, took a couple of years if I remember correctly, back in the mid 80's. They pulled tons and tons of cypress from the lake and stored it where the condo's are across from Baton Rouge Beach is. After completion they opened up the park, stocked the lakes with Florida bass, bluegill and striped bass. I think channel cats were added as well. The lake thrived for years, you could catch stripers at the run out between the two lakes at night. I probably landed 10 bass over 5 pounds beating the banks in the spring. They had a large hole about 15' deep near the bird sanctuary I would fish during the summer and winter by boat. It held a ton of fish but it silted back in.