re: Catahoula Lake could become off limits to duck hunters

The land owners own to the banks of the river. The actual river bed is not more than 30 -50 years s wide. Everything else only floods in the lake winter or spring for a few months and is dry ground mist of the year.

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Catahoula being a duck hunting mecca will soon be coming to an end

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Trust me, it’s not been a duck hunting Mecca in quite awhile. I’ve been hunting in the lake on and off for 30 yrs and the glory days are long past. There is the occasional day that it can’t be beat but those days are getting further & further apart.

Honey Brake is not Catahoula

So if they remove the control structure what would be the repercussion of a massive flood. Who would suffer, the land owners or what's below? Or anybody. Was this built for the duck hunters, landowners or cattlemen?

The outfitter “Honey Break” along with several other outfitters have blinds in Catahoula lake that they hunt often. They have several other places to hunt also

I would assume that structure is also supposed to be seasonally operated, but I doubt it is.

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I would assume that structure is also supposed to be seasonally operated, but I doubt it is.

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It is. They drain the lake during growing season.

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What about Toledo Bend?


Artificial lake made by the state government. The

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. Landowners were paid too

I use to know one of the surveyors who surveyed the land to build Toledo Bend.
His job was the survey the land being bought out and estimate the cost of the land.
The people were paid for the land plus a small amount of money to move.

Bought a map from him of where the homes use to be.
He said they moved the homes while leaving the piers the homes sat on.
I caught some nice bass off the piers left from the homes that were moved.