re: Sharks found in Atchafalaya Basin

The blacktip in my old avi fought for 40 minutes.
fricker wore me out.

Yeah. Towards the end.

We beat that fricker's head in once we got it on the boat.

I spent many a day in the rivers near Covington and Madisonville from the 70's on. I never saw or heard of a bull shark back in the day but there is no doubt they were there. I remember a couple of shark attacks on the south shore back then but not in my neck if the woods. It just goes to show how rare the attacks actually are.

was there a crappy movie about sharks in the swamp called shark week or something

They're not that far up the amite

Link doesn't go to an article

They caught it in the diversion, that's not too far from the lake so it's not a shocker, I wouldn't expect the sharks to make it north of I-12 up to tiki tubing mainly bc river gets shallow up there

The water gets really high when it rains a lot. I guess it's possible one could swim up and get stuck in a hole somewhere. Highly unlikely though.

Wasn't there a movie about this a few years back that had a lot of Tulane students getting eaten?


Or was that set in Ponchatrain?