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t's honestly mind blowing to me how different the redfish stock in lower St. Bernard is compared to what it was 10 years ago. I'm 32 and have fished and hunted the area for the majority of my life.

Try being 65 and seeing the land disappear before your eyes. Myrtle Grove / Lake Hermitage.....its just a shell of what it was. Empire......Jesus you might as well say you are launching into the Gulf at Joshua's or Delta.

I've been fishing down there since I was 8. There was an electric launch at Myrtle Grove was on the side of Highway 23. The canal was prolly 1/3 the size it is now. Yeah habitat is huge issue in this problem but the other things mentioned here do contribute.

And I was one on those guys who could limit out quickly, Reds prolly by full sunrise and I can't tell you how many times I had 50 trout on ice by 7:30. I don't go as much anymore but at least I have those memories.

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Posted on 12/6/22 at 3:58 pm to Tiger 79

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t's honestly mind blowing to me how different the redfish stock in lower St. Bernard is compared to what it was 10 years ago. I'm 32 and have fished and hunted the area for the majority of my life.

Try being 65 and seeing the land disappear before your eyes. Myrtle Grove / Lake Hermitage.....its just a shell of what it was. Empire......Jesus you might as well say you are launching into the Gulf at Joshua's or Delta.

I've been fishing down there since I was 8. There was an electric launch at Myrtle Grove was on the side of Highway 23. The canal was prolly 1/3 the size it is now. Yeah habitat is huge issue in this problem but the other things mentioned here do contribute.

And I was one on those guys who could limit out quickly, Reds prolly by full sunrise and I can't tell you how many times I had 50 trout on ice by 7:30. I don't go as much anymore but at least I have those memories.

cut my teeth fishing MG and remember early 80s filling boxes with reds and specks without going past lake laurier. then after blackened redfish craze reds became a little tougher. but the area remained solid until after katrina rita, then a rapid decline began heck a spot that a man used to mow grass on at camp on laurier in 1990 was now 200 yards from the bank....

Oh and quail numbers LA had (that I saw 1976 through 1984 were unreal) The decline from 1984 to 1992 was unreal

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