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CCA announces 2 new artificial reefs in Lake Charles...
Posted on 4/27/26 at 3:43 pm
Posted on 4/27/26 at 3:43 pm
CCA announced 2 new artificial reefs in Lake Charles Area:
From CCA:
TWO NEW ARTIFICIAL are being built simultaneously along the Louisiana coast, made possible through generous grants from CITGO.
JOIN US as we unveil the details, recognize our partners, and celebrate what's coming to the water.
1 - near the fishing pier at Port Wonder in Lake Charles (touted as first reef to be accessible without a boat)
1 - Cutoff Point - just South of Turners Bay Island
I'm sure they will update their website after construction, but you can find GPS coordinates for all their reefs online.
From CCA:
TWO NEW ARTIFICIAL are being built simultaneously along the Louisiana coast, made possible through generous grants from CITGO.
JOIN US as we unveil the details, recognize our partners, and celebrate what's coming to the water.
1 - near the fishing pier at Port Wonder in Lake Charles (touted as first reef to be accessible without a boat)
1 - Cutoff Point - just South of Turners Bay Island
I'm sure they will update their website after construction, but you can find GPS coordinates for all their reefs online.
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Posted on 4/27/26 at 4:15 pm to TopWaterTiger
I wish they would put more in Lake Pontchartrain.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:56 pm to TopWaterTiger
quote:I'd be happy with one relatively easily accessible with a kayak. Grand Isle, Empire, Burris, Venice...hell anywhere.
touted as first reef to be accessible without a boat
Posted on 4/28/26 at 8:40 am to TopWaterTiger
Cool, but how about they do something about all the erosion caused by ship traffic. Rock the ship channel before the channel, lake, west cove become one single body of water. It's been talked about for 10+ years. The SE corner of Joes will be open to the ship channel in the next couple years.
Now they're pushing for no wake zones at the Old river and also at Kelso Bayou all by Spicers and on the way to Black Lake but the LNG ships and all other ships that throw 8' waves up and down the channel are no problem?
Not an attack on CCA, this is just another feel good band-aid slapped on while avoiding the much larger problem.
Now they're pushing for no wake zones at the Old river and also at Kelso Bayou all by Spicers and on the way to Black Lake but the LNG ships and all other ships that throw 8' waves up and down the channel are no problem?
Not an attack on CCA, this is just another feel good band-aid slapped on while avoiding the much larger problem.
This post was edited on 4/28/26 at 8:44 am
Posted on 4/28/26 at 9:06 am to DuckSausage
Preach!!
Land loss occurring monthly now, no wake zones by shrimp house is fine but who will enforce?
One of our guides tracked a ship last week on the channel (gps) @ 17.1 mph.
I have been behind some tractor tugs pushing 4-5’ wakes.
Super cut south needed to be rocked 20 years ago and COE told me that area was not their problem at a meeting.
The plan now is to fill in marsh with dredge spoil, they’re building land and not marsh from Ellender to Cameron LNG.
Land loss occurring monthly now, no wake zones by shrimp house is fine but who will enforce?
One of our guides tracked a ship last week on the channel (gps) @ 17.1 mph.
I have been behind some tractor tugs pushing 4-5’ wakes.
Super cut south needed to be rocked 20 years ago and COE told me that area was not their problem at a meeting.
The plan now is to fill in marsh with dredge spoil, they’re building land and not marsh from Ellender to Cameron LNG.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 9:26 am to KemoSabe65
quote:
Super cut south needed to be rocked 20 years ago and COE told me that area was not their problem at a meeting.
Yep....we've been beating this drum for 20 years! Problem is Army COE said yes, then said no, then said need to study....so we still wait....
But they need some rock "islands" to reform washout area and super cut. That's really the only fix for our lake. Get the water flowing back through there. Stop killing all the oyster reefs with the massive water and mud flows of the ships. Otherwise its about to turn into one big salty muddy mess.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 12:54 pm to TopWaterTiger
I guess at least they're doing something.
What kind of reef can they put in Lake charles. That area is like 4' of water?????
But agreed with all of the above. Ship traffic is insane, now that I don't live there anymore, and we just get to come fish every few months, I am blown away at seeing the increase of erosion and changes every trip it seems like.
What kind of reef can they put in Lake charles. That area is like 4' of water?????
But agreed with all of the above. Ship traffic is insane, now that I don't live there anymore, and we just get to come fish every few months, I am blown away at seeing the increase of erosion and changes every trip it seems like.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:49 pm to TFLEX
quote:
What kind of reef can they put in Lake charles. That area is like 4' of water?????
Its about 10 feet where they put this one.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 3:17 pm to TopWaterTiger
Min relief 3’ ? You member ?
Posted on 4/28/26 at 3:53 pm to KemoSabe65
quote:
Min relief 3’ ? You member ?
How could I forget!
Posted on 4/28/26 at 6:56 pm to TopWaterTiger
quote:
Its about 10 feet where they put this one.
They already put it in?
Posted on 4/29/26 at 9:24 am to DuckSausage
quote:
Rock the ship channel before the channel, lake, west cove become one single body of water.
My understanding has always been that jetties/rock armoring don't happen near as much anymore because of federal agencies like NMFS opposing it because of interference with fish passage.
Posted on 4/29/26 at 10:11 am to Cowboyfan89
Well they could install underwater signage with exit arrows so the fish know which way to swim.
Federal officials aren’t smart enough to pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
In a port meeting with COE it was suggested that Joes Cove would be an excellent spot to pump dredge spoil
Federal officials aren’t smart enough to pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
In a port meeting with COE it was suggested that Joes Cove would be an excellent spot to pump dredge spoil
Posted on 4/29/26 at 12:45 pm to KemoSabe65
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In a port meeting with COE it was suggested that Joes Cove would be an excellent spot to pump dredge spoil
WHAT?!? Send that shite out to the gulf if anything. That suggestion is an infinite amount worse than returning the "waste" water or whatever theyd return into the back of Baffin bay from the proposed desalination plant. At least there's an unkown of we don't know how that would effect the bay.
Pumping spoil to an open lake removes all doubt, unless the end goal is to kill any recreational activity.
Or continue to pump it into the marsh "contained" by a levee so when the levee breaks it all dumps back into the lake like what happened on the south end this past winter.
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