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re: Catahoula Lake could become off limits to duck hunters
Posted on 8/13/21 at 5:22 am to AlxTgr
Posted on 8/13/21 at 5:22 am to AlxTgr
So if it becomes mostly private, do the leave the dam open all the time to not allow it to flood? Seems that if you force it to flood, then people want to sue because of “ property damage” all the while they will charge a lot of money for duck blinds and benefit from it. I’ve never been up there so this could all be wrong.
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Posted on 8/13/21 at 8:47 am to headedwest21
I read somewhere that the gates will be operated as before, which I really do not understand. There may have been some behind the scenes deal between these plaintiffs, the corp., FWS and Ldwf. That refuge is pretty damned important to the feds.
Posted on 8/13/21 at 9:05 am to AlxTgr
If you damn it, they will come. Had to do it.
Posted on 8/14/21 at 8:16 pm to MrLSU
I know the owner of the Holloway store, that’s gonna suck for him
Posted on 8/14/21 at 8:25 pm to Hurricane Mike
A few of the landowners on the north side who are benefitting from this told me that "they always heard that the hunting was better when it flooded naturally" idk may be true but that was so long ago who knows. I do know we used to drive our trucks to parts of the lake that were dry hard dirt grass and shoot skeet and ride four wheelers and two months after they let the water out and some rain that same location was like 8 feet deep. It is really a crazy situation, im just praying by some miracle this all comes back. I know the birds aren't coming as far south (even to Ark) like they were back in the day but still the Lake and NWR is a big spot for conservationists and biologists to study birds. I know at one time "supposedly" it held the largest canvasback migration stop in North America, which there are a lot of cans that have been shot out of there.
Posted on 8/14/21 at 9:44 pm to AlxTgr
quote:the duck/migratory bird deal was the reason for the diversion in the first place x to maintain the fowl habitat. Was a big push in the late 1960s to convert Catahoula “river” to a fishing lake. The lock and damn at Jonesville fkd sooo much waterfowl habitat up it’s a shame.
That refuge is pretty damned important to the feds.
Posted on 8/14/21 at 10:14 pm to White Bear
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the duck/migratory bird deal was the reason for the diversion in the first place x to maintain the fowl habitat. Was a big push in the late 1960s to convert Catahoula “river” to a fishing lake. The lock and damn at Jonesville fkd sooo much waterfowl habitat up it’s a shame.
people fish it in the summer, but they fish Little River and what they can of the "lake" but as I was saying alot of that is just pasture in the summer after they let the water out. But you're rights its an extremely important waterfowl habitat.
Posted on 8/14/21 at 10:57 pm to BorrisMart
Without the diversion the lake would’ve been permanent (permanently inundated) as I understand it.
This post was edited on 8/14/21 at 10:58 pm
Posted on 8/15/21 at 7:49 am to rt3
Crooks is very accurate
Posted on 8/15/21 at 7:55 am to BorrisMart
the amount of vandalism will be unfathomable.
Posted on 8/15/21 at 11:33 am to White Bear
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Without the diversion the lake would’ve been permanent (permanently inundated) as I understand it.
You are probably right, at least probably parts of it, it could be alot of pasture because they let the water out. I do know many seasons they've let the water in, then we get tons of rain and all of a sudden the blinds that are usually in about knee deep water are in 6 foot plus of water and alot of the ducks leave. You could be correct on that. I just know that without the canal it would probably be very inconsistent on water year round. But im not expert and the diversion was way before my time.
Posted on 8/15/21 at 3:34 pm to BorrisMart
I’ve only hunted catahoula one time in the mid 90’s and it was crazy. Hunted with a local from Jena and we had a four man limit of pintails, cans, and filled out with all mallards and wigeon. Hunted over 1500 decoys and saw the blinds every 400 yards and people doing the Cicero shuffle mid hunt, the whole works. Amazing boat ride out when the mallard hen calls and pintail whistles of the ducks roosted in the buck brush on the west side of the lake was deafening in places. I understand it is a shell of its former self. Sadly just seems like memories that won’t return to Louisiana hunters as missouri-kansas-oklahoma now draw so many of the birds that used to end up wintering down south.
Posted on 8/15/21 at 6:48 pm to TigerDog83
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I’ve only hunted catahoula one time in the mid 90’s and it was crazy. Hunted with a local from Jena and we had a four man limit of pintails, cans, and filled out with all mallards and wigeon. Hunted over 1500 decoys and saw the blinds every 400 yards and people doing the Cicero shuffle mid hunt, the whole works. Amazing boat ride out when the mallard hen calls and pintail whistles of the ducks roosted in the buck brush on the west side of the lake was deafening in places. I understand it is a shell of its former self. Sadly just seems like memories that won’t return to Louisiana hunters as missouri-kansas-oklahoma now draw so many of the birds that used to end up wintering down south.
yep, used to be able to shoot just about every single species in the Miss and Central flyway back in the day, sad stuff. But like you said, law suit aside its not like the ducks are coming down like they used to anyway.
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