re: Maurepas Swamp Duck Hunting

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I just drop my 1.5 year old off at my moms so wife can sleep and I go fish and hunt anyway. she don't really care as long as im around during the week
damn whistlers are everywhere... you could spend an afternoon with a pellet gun picking them off.

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im on the water almost every weekend so i cant complain. In laws next door and my parents in town help a lot. I rather fish. thats all it comes down to

Burma is across Canal Street from me. Im in the Brule swamp. Ironically, Lowland has a lot more dry ground than me.

Rebuilding the diversion rock bed will send more water down the Amite and into the swamp. Whats to study? Dump some freakin rocks where they used to be!
Thats all my old buddys in the pic. all we did back in the 80`s, hunt, fish, and play ball.

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Maurepas Swamp Duck Hunting
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They just need to leave the Bonnet Carre Spillway open year round


I mean that would be ideal, but that is a losing battle with the Save the Lake foundation. Ponchartrain peeps freak the frick out when they open the Bonnet Carre. IMO, frick that lake. bring back the swamps

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the lake is at it's best in the years after spillway openings..

Swamps are extremely complicated things. No two are alike, and making a plan to manage them is always an educated guess by the HNIC. A lot of times, the people managing them disagree on the process, but everyone is always chasing the same goal.

It could've been the higher clean water levels moved detritus around. River water could've added sediment. Could've been both. Hell, it is good for some swamps when you see the top few feet of soil dry up and crack open. What we do know is that salt water is extremely bad for the trees in that area. They cannot tolerate it.


Moral of the story is that there's no better place in the world than inside a South Louisiana swamp

The Mississippi River most definitely would have overflowed into Maurepas Swamp at some time in history. I saw an old map once of the area that I live in that showed an old bayou that no longer exists. Bayou Acadian. It was near by where my home is now, and it went from the Mississippi River into the swamp, where it became Blind River. Before the levies were built, no doubt this bayou would bring water and sediment to the swamp. There were probably similar bayous all along the Mississippi.

Another thing of note, all that flooding last fall would have been a non-event without the levee. That water would have gone straight to the river without anyone even noticing.

I'm not familiar with the history of this area. Are the levees old? If so, did they use to open it up then they stopped?

From the pictures and stories I've seen, it freaking sucks that it changed so much.

Pretty much only the deer hunting is still good?

Some sort of levees existed from the time Europeans began settling along the river. As settlers were given grants of land, they were responsible for maintaining some type of levee for their river front property. This began in the 18th century, but it’s doubtful they were very successful. Perhaps they held back flood waters in mild flood years. Most of the plantation homes along the river were built up in anticipation of floods. After the Big Flood of 1927, the corps of engineers started construction of the levees we know of today.


ETA: I’d give my left nut go back in time and see what the swamp looked like before mans influence.

If you look at some maps several of the small bayous start at the Mississippi River levee. Like New River which runs through Gonzales and Conway that runs through Sorrento and run to the swamp.