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False River Issues...
Posted on 4/28/13 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 4/28/13 at 12:21 pm
I met a guy this weekend who owns a camp on false River. He was telling me that they don't fish it any more because of pollution and some other issues. If anyone heard this before? What's going on?
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Posted on 4/28/13 at 12:28 pm to Howard Juneau
They've been saying that for 30+ years now. MANY Years ago, the camps just dumped their sewer into the water. It's been referred to as the poo-poo pond for years. It's illegal, but some people claim that the local farms drain into False River and that adds fertilizer, etc.
This post was edited on 4/28/13 at 12:30 pm
Posted on 4/28/13 at 12:28 pm to Howard Juneau
I used to every now and then, but it is just way too crowded to fish anymore
Posted on 4/28/13 at 12:42 pm to PvilleP
siltation from farm runnoff may be a bigger issue.
really a perfect storm of a significant water quality and hence habitat degradation has drastically affected the fishing over the last 25 years.
really a perfect storm of a significant water quality and hence habitat degradation has drastically affected the fishing over the last 25 years.
Posted on 4/28/13 at 12:45 pm to PvilleP
The water itself is fine for fish. The lack of vegetation is the real issue there.
Posted on 4/28/13 at 2:51 pm to UncleLogger
We have had a camp out there for 18 years. We would catch all kinds of fish from the pier, but the past 3-5 years all we catch is catfish which i hate dealing with 
Posted on 4/28/13 at 2:53 pm to geaux7122
Lack of vegetation? Does it have grass carp?
Posted on 4/28/13 at 2:56 pm to Howard Juneau
Our pier has no vegetation around it. Now that i think about it the problem started when we put in a bulkhead due to bank erosion.
Posted on 4/28/13 at 2:57 pm to Howard Juneau
I have heard the water is pretty bad. It's basically a large pond that is overcrowded with camps, fishermen, and pleasure boaters, and no natural water flow.
The corps if engineers was looking into installing some pumps or something to raise and lower the water level to provide more spawning grounds. Something about they lost a bunch of spawning area from some cause.
The corps if engineers was looking into installing some pumps or something to raise and lower the water level to provide more spawning grounds. Something about they lost a bunch of spawning area from some cause.
Posted on 4/28/13 at 3:18 pm to Slickback
I thoughts saw recently where they are going to build and island or two on either end and plant thousands of cypress trees
Posted on 4/28/13 at 4:29 pm to wickowick
There were some plants to do a bunch of dredging and build an island but there was a lot of opposition iirc.
Only place to fish out there is piers and walls but between wind and wakes from boat it will work you to death.
Only place to fish out there is piers and walls but between wind and wakes from boat it will work you to death.
Posted on 4/28/13 at 4:42 pm to geaux7122
quote:
We have had a camp out there for 18 years. We would catch all kinds of fish from the pier, but the past 3-5 years all we catch is catfish which i hate dealing with
Why do you hate dealing with them?
Posted on 4/28/13 at 5:12 pm to Howard Juneau
I've lived on False River since '98. The quality of fishing has plummeted since then. I don't fish it anymore either. I was 11 when we moved there and I'd wake up early during the summer and fish all day and never stop catching fish whether it be catfish, bass or bream. Now you have to fish all day just to hopefully get a decent mess. I just go to Old River or Henderson now.
This post was edited on 4/28/13 at 5:13 pm
Posted on 4/28/13 at 5:40 pm to PvilleP
quote:Can someone explain to me what this does, exactly? Serious question cause I don't know.
some people claim that the local farms drain into False River and that adds fertilizer, etc.
Posted on 4/28/13 at 5:43 pm to Geauxtiga
quote:
some people claim that the local farms drain into False River and that adds fertilizer, etc.
Can someone explain to me what this does, exactly? Serious question cause I don't know.
siltation of lake... too much fertilizer in water jacks with DO in lake.
Posted on 4/28/13 at 5:48 pm to choupiquesushi
I think I read fertilizer causes massive algae blooms that drown out all the other vegetation
Posted on 4/28/13 at 5:53 pm to PvilleP
quote:What's "DO"?
choupiquesushi
siltation of lake... too much fertilizer in water jacks with DO in lake.
quote:Interesting.
I think I read fertilizer causes massive algae blooms that drown out all the other vegetation
Posted on 4/28/13 at 6:31 pm to Geauxtiga
quote:
What's "DO"?
dissolved oxygen
Posted on 4/28/13 at 6:35 pm to Geauxtiga
supposedly, when point coupe parish started using it for a big retention pond, they installed silt basins upstream of the lakes redirected water shed. in some unforseen short period of time the silt basins filled up. no money to clean them out, hence ag runoff rolling into the lake unchecked. non-point source pollutants are the major cause of the fishery going to hell.
Posted on 4/28/13 at 6:55 pm to mack the knife
Previous posts pretty much covered it.
DEQ periodically samples water quality. Fecal coliform levels are really high, and DO is often really low, especialy in the summer.
When a new owner or new tenant applies to have electrical service connected, a sewer treatment system has to be installed and/or inspected by the parish before power can be connected. This eventually improves water quality, but I think a lot of old camps still dump raw sewage into the lake.
The south canal has carried slit into the lake for decades. This is where the grass beds (and bass//bluegill spawning) used to thrive.
I think the Corps has finally washed its hands (no pun intended) of the lake. As so often happens with the New Orleans District Corps, once they got a boatload of money appropriated, and spent it on studies, they bailed -- just like in the Atchafayala Basin a few years ago.
DEQ periodically samples water quality. Fecal coliform levels are really high, and DO is often really low, especialy in the summer.
When a new owner or new tenant applies to have electrical service connected, a sewer treatment system has to be installed and/or inspected by the parish before power can be connected. This eventually improves water quality, but I think a lot of old camps still dump raw sewage into the lake.
The south canal has carried slit into the lake for decades. This is where the grass beds (and bass//bluegill spawning) used to thrive.
I think the Corps has finally washed its hands (no pun intended) of the lake. As so often happens with the New Orleans District Corps, once they got a boatload of money appropriated, and spent it on studies, they bailed -- just like in the Atchafayala Basin a few years ago.
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