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re: Maurepas Swamp Duck Hunting
Posted on 9/22/17 at 11:03 am to CypressTrout10
Posted on 9/22/17 at 11:03 am to CypressTrout10
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They just need to leave the Bonnet Carre Spillway open year round
I mean that would be ideal, but that is a losing battle with the Save the Lake foundation. Ponchartrain peeps freak the frick out when they open the Bonnet Carre. IMO, frick that lake. bring back the swamps
Posted on 9/22/17 at 11:27 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
It would not be good for the swamp. IIRC, all of that muddy, polluted water (the lake is less nasty now) dumps straight into Lake P, and out into the gulf. The Coastal Master Plan addresses restoration of Maurepas and Pontchartrain well
Posted on 9/22/17 at 11:50 am to maisweh
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I just drop my 1.5 year old off at my moms so wife can sleep and I go fish and hunt anyway. she don't really care as long as im around during the week
damn whistlers are everywhere... you could spend an afternoon with a pellet gun picking them off.
im on the water almost every weekend so i cant complain. In laws next door and my parents in town help a lot. I rather fish. thats all it comes down to
Burma is across Canal Street from me. Im in the Brule swamp. Ironically, Lowland has a lot more dry ground than me.
Posted on 9/22/17 at 12:16 pm to Hammertime
The two floods last year alone did wonders for the swamp. It was greener and fuller this summer than any since Katrina. Heck ive seen cypress trees that I assumed were dead start to produce Green leaves again
Posted on 9/22/17 at 12:52 pm to CypressTrout10
Rebuilding the diversion rock bed will send more water down the Amite and into the swamp. Whats to study? Dump some freakin rocks where they used to be!
Thats all my old buddys in the pic. all we did back in the 80`s, hunt, fish, and play ball.
Thats all my old buddys in the pic. all we did back in the 80`s, hunt, fish, and play ball.
Posted on 9/22/17 at 12:56 pm to Hammertime
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t muddy, polluted water
The river is actually much cleaner than you think.. there are no fish consumption advisories for the miss river... might want to check on your favorite local fishing hole though.....
Posted on 9/22/17 at 12:57 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
quote:
Maurepas Swamp Duck Hunting
quote:
They just need to leave the Bonnet Carre Spillway open year round
I mean that would be ideal, but that is a losing battle with the Save the Lake foundation. Ponchartrain peeps freak the frick out when they open the Bonnet Carre. IMO, frick that lake. bring back the swamps
the lake is at it's best in the years after spillway openings..
Posted on 9/22/17 at 12:59 pm to choupiquesushi
Yeah why would the save the lake people have an issue with the Bonnet C being open?
Posted on 9/22/17 at 1:23 pm to CypressTrout10
Swamps are extremely complicated things. No two are alike, and making a plan to manage them is always an educated guess by the HNIC. A lot of times, the people managing them disagree on the process, but everyone is always chasing the same goal.
It could've been the higher clean water levels moved detritus around. River water could've added sediment. Could've been both. Hell, it is good for some swamps when you see the top few feet of soil dry up and crack open. What we do know is that salt water is extremely bad for the trees in that area. They cannot tolerate it.
Moral of the story is that there's no better place in the world than inside a South Louisiana swamp
It could've been the higher clean water levels moved detritus around. River water could've added sediment. Could've been both. Hell, it is good for some swamps when you see the top few feet of soil dry up and crack open. What we do know is that salt water is extremely bad for the trees in that area. They cannot tolerate it.
Moral of the story is that there's no better place in the world than inside a South Louisiana swamp
Posted on 9/22/17 at 3:24 pm to Hammertime
did or did the miss river not used to flow into that swamp through bayou manchac and another waterway?
Posted on 9/22/17 at 3:45 pm to Hammertime
Shittttttt
I'm pretty sure fallujah is a better place to be than the middle of the swamp in the middle of august.
I'm pretty sure fallujah is a better place to be than the middle of the swamp in the middle of august.
Posted on 9/22/17 at 3:50 pm to choupiquesushi
The Mississippi River most definitely would have overflowed into Maurepas Swamp at some time in history. I saw an old map once of the area that I live in that showed an old bayou that no longer exists. Bayou Acadian. It was near by where my home is now, and it went from the Mississippi River into the swamp, where it became Blind River. Before the levies were built, no doubt this bayou would bring water and sediment to the swamp. There were probably similar bayous all along the Mississippi.
Posted on 9/22/17 at 3:53 pm to upgrade
I looked at this map last week. I googled "civil war era maps of louisiana" and that's what I found. Bayou Manchac flowed into Acadian Bayou then to Blind River. Then to Lake Maurepas.
Posted on 9/22/17 at 3:56 pm to upgrade
Another thing of note, all that flooding last fall would have been a non-event without the levee. That water would have gone straight to the river without anyone even noticing.
Posted on 9/22/17 at 4:27 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Some of it would have gone into the river. Not all. The banks of the Mississippi River are higher than the surrounding land pretty much everywhere south of highland road. Where I'm at the elevation of land is 25' above sea level. By the time you get to the beginnings of blind river elevation is probably barely above sea level. I don't think the land in Ascension, Baton Rouge, or Livingston drops as drastically, but the easiest path for all that water was the Maurepas Basin.
Posted on 9/22/17 at 5:14 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
I'm not familiar with the history of this area. Are the levees old? If so, did they use to open it up then they stopped?
From the pictures and stories I've seen, it freaking sucks that it changed so much.
Pretty much only the deer hunting is still good?
From the pictures and stories I've seen, it freaking sucks that it changed so much.
Pretty much only the deer hunting is still good?
Posted on 9/22/17 at 5:31 pm to CypressTrout10
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The two floods last year alone did wonders for the swamp.
I've been fishing Blind river my whole life and this year it was excellent. Several tournaments had winning stringers of 13-14lbs. The majority of boats brought in 5 fish. I can remember as little as 7-8 years ago 5lbs was winning tournaments by a large margin. Even the perch and sacalait fishing was good. We had spillway size goggle eye swallowing our frogs on topwater. It's amazing what a little flush can do.
Posted on 9/22/17 at 5:36 pm to cbiscuit
Some sort of levees existed from the time Europeans began settling along the river. As settlers were given grants of land, they were responsible for maintaining some type of levee for their river front property. This began in the 18th century, but it’s doubtful they were very successful. Perhaps they held back flood waters in mild flood years. Most of the plantation homes along the river were built up in anticipation of floods. After the Big Flood of 1927, the corps of engineers started construction of the levees we know of today.
ETA: I’d give my left nut go back in time and see what the swamp looked like before mans influence.
ETA: I’d give my left nut go back in time and see what the swamp looked like before mans influence.
This post was edited on 9/22/17 at 5:47 pm
Posted on 9/22/17 at 6:54 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Nah brah, I'll take the swamp any day of the week over that dry arse shite. Unless I'm short on time, I always take the scenic route to get places in my truck. There's no better place in the world IMHO
Posted on 9/22/17 at 7:28 pm to choupiquesushi
If you look at some maps several of the small bayous start at the Mississippi River levee. Like New River which runs through Gonzales and Conway that runs through Sorrento and run to the swamp.
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