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What are these structures called all around Big Lake?
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:25 am
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:25 am
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Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:35 am to meauxjeaux2
This is just a guess, but it looks like floating marsh beds for future costal restoration. Or oil boom storage? 
It's hard to guage the size...
It's hard to guage the size...
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:37 am to meauxjeaux2
Can you guys clarify this Big Lake?
I think we have like 3 or 4 places in LA called Big Lake.
I think we have like 3 or 4 places in LA called Big Lake.
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:38 am to CBLSU316
Calcasieu
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:38 am to CBLSU316
Calcasieu lake
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:39 am to CBLSU316
quote:nahh
Can you guys clarify this Big Lake?
I think we have like 3 or 4 places in LA called Big Lake.
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:39 am to meauxjeaux2
Looks like boom. Look at the ring around the island up top in the middle of the pic.
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:42 am to sloopy
quote:click link,zoom in. Crumbled concrete
Looks like boom.
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:43 am to meauxjeaux2
Yep
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:45 am to meauxjeaux2
If that is crushed concrete, that is a shite ton of concrete.
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:51 am to meauxjeaux2
It's not boom. I've duck hunted that marsh a few dozen times over the last 10 yrs at the old lake Charles American press place. If u look at the launch at the end of 1144 aka big pasture rd, grosse savants place is down there to. Anyway if ur running str8 south u pass all of those things up. After Rita in 2005 that marsh was effed up big time. Whole areas of land where stripped away. Wat was once a pot hole blind for us was now on open water. The us army core built those to basically stop erosion. The ducks don't mind and they are workin. A lot of that area is filling in again. They are earthen levees. Hunting is still badass FYI.
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:51 am to meauxjeaux2
They're efforts to help with erosion
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:51 am to 34venture
so,anyone know what these strange looking structures are actually for?
Slow down a storm tidal surge maybe?
Slow down a storm tidal surge maybe?
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:52 am to 34venture
it's there for coastal restoration & technically that is black lake, not big lake (calcasieu lake).
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:53 am to meauxjeaux2
Look up little vermilion bay restoration project. Similar type deal
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:54 am to 4mileduckman
Friend of mine leases out all the land around here. He's mega rich dude and duck hunts like a madman out here. Has irrigation pumps that connect to the Intracoastal.
Those ponds in my link have a shite ton of bass in them.You can see the little bateaus there on the bank we go out in all the time.
There's awesome deer hunting there as well.
LINK
Those ponds in my link have a shite ton of bass in them.You can see the little bateaus there on the bank we go out in all the time.
There's awesome deer hunting there as well.
LINK
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:55 am to jsmoke222000
quote:that's why I said "around Big Lake"
& technically that is black lake, not big lake (calcasieu lake).
Posted on 6/6/13 at 9:10 am to meauxjeaux2
Yeah I know the areas well. I've hunted all around big lake since 1988. My current place is south of Sabine refuge btwn Johnson bayou and holl beach. On the coast our blind and the marsh made it thru ok bc the water came up so fast. Holly beach was wiped ou tho. U should have seen the look an the national guards faces when we showed up to duck hunt that year. Had some really good hunts. Marsh was black so we put out about a dozen decoys and a mojo and they came quick. As far as ur buddy's I'm pretty familiar wt that area from fishing and have only hunted a few times st8 west of hackberry. Also on the west side of hackberry is that strategic oil reserve I old salt domes. They def r trying to protect that place to. I believe it's the largest one in the US. Has around 250 million barrels. After 911 u couldn't get near that place fishin around black lake.
Posted on 6/6/13 at 9:21 am to meauxjeaux2
Those are called "duck wing" terraces. They are created to break up the wind driven waves and promote shallow water habitat. Notice they are facing southeast, which is the direction of the prevailing wind.
Posted on 6/6/13 at 9:30 am to 7flat
quote:
7flat
I was about to drop some knowledge on the OB but since you're here, I don't think that'll be necessary.
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