Lake Decade Marsh

It’s a horrible place to fish. Never really catch anything other than hardheads. You’d probably be happier fishing somewhere else.

15 years ago, it was a great place to catch specs. Simply launch, go a few miles down Falgout Canal to the lake, and just let the wind drift you across the lake while fishing. We'd limit out on specs in just a few hours. Now, the water in Lake Decade is a little too fresh. You'll need to go across Decade and get to Lake Mechant area. We never caught huge trout there, just an easy solid limit. My largest trout there was around 22" long.

If you have a smaller boat, you can also launch right off Hwy 182 into Black Bayou, go through a small salt water control structure, and down Minor's Canal for about 5 miles to the lake. You can usually pick up a few bass in that Minor's Canal on the way back in. I can no longer use that route because of the height of my newer boat.

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If you have a smaller boat, you can also launch right off Hwy 182 into Black Bayou, go through a small salt water control structure, and down Minor's Canal for about 5 miles to the lake

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It is almost 12 miles to the lake. I would like to buy land from you.

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Ida brought in a big surge in that area

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Eh could be wrong, but I don’t think so. Bayou Dularge floodgate by Jug’s was reading around -2.0ft on the outside during the storm and the water didn’t really get above normal levels once it passed through.

As for the marsh, can’t speak for areas between Sister Lake and Dulac. I’d imagine it’s pretty tore up. But the marshes on the western end of the parish around Lost Lake and Four League Bay look pretty good, all things considered.

I guess you would be absolutely right on the surge height. I guess I was thinking they got the surge we did in lower lafourche but being on the west side of the eye would have made a huge difference.