False River

Haven't been since November, but it was more like False puddle then

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but it was more like False puddle then

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This is what I've heard. I know there has been issues with sedimentation killing the grass in the lake, but aren't the state and locals doing something to remedy this problem? FR used to be a world-class bass lake, and the perch fishing at the mudflats was a blast. I've caught most of my fish from here simply off of piers of family friends.

Anyone who believes silt killed off False River is smoking crack. There's far more sediment in the Atchaflaya Basin and most waterways in Louisiana where fishing is still good. The real problem is herbicides. I know a couple lake residents who tried to introduce hydrilla and it wouldnt take!!!

Herbicides in large volumes impede even phytoplankton growth which inhibits fish production. It also lowers oxygen levels in the lake causing late summer fish kills.

FR could come back to its glory days but politics get in the way.

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Bonaventure's Landing was a going Jessie

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The silt did have a pretty big effect. However, having fished it my whole life, and seen first hand what they have done, the grass didn't die until LDWF sprayed it. Even after they sprayed it, and the siltation had been happening for years, the grass came back heavily around '99. Guess what? They sprayed it again. The reason? It was hydrilla, and the hydrilla is bad for fish. They said that it mats up and uses up too much oxygen and causes algae blooms that will cause mortality. The last time, it was heavy out 50 yards or so from the piers on the south end, and heavy between the piers again on the island to around mid river. They have also sprayed the lillies numerous times in the south flats since then. They won't grow now because of the dredging, but they continued to kill them every chance they got.

The last time they killed the grass, the same year it coincided with the outbreak of LMBV. I caught a roughly 8 pound fish with my hands that was floating sick at LA Express and threw it in the livewell and kept it alive and called LDWF like the instructions were at the time so they could test it for the virus. The biologist I spoke with told me that they didn't want it to test it. The die off was because of the algae bloom, not LMBV, and that's why they needed to kill all that damn hydrilla again. 4 weeks later it came out that it tested positive for LMBV. The amount of 5-10 pound fish floating on the island side between piers over a couple week span was sickening. There were no less than half a dozen that size between each set of piers. They came back briefly over the next few years. You could catch many nice fish. Then, in his infinite wisdom, Rob Marrioneaux, champion for guys who want to fill their freezers with nothing but limits of wild game every day, fought to have the slot removed. It's gone downhill ever since.

for some reason, my uncle wants to go there Sunday. From what I have been reading here, and online, we won't be catching much.

Cause the dudes that still catch fish in there don't talk about it.

At all.

Definitely not online, cause half of them don't go online. It's hard to get it out of em even when your kin...

Yeah, it's not good out there. My in laws have lived on the water out there for 15 years and I used to bring tackle when we'd go, now I don't even bother. Can't catch a decent bass out there to save my life and the only thing I ever see anyone catch off their docks is catfish.

Are they done with the draw down?

Thanks. Gonna give it shot.