SilverPoon985

we dont seed anything - just let it enhacne the natural stuff. We Just fertilize the ponds (riding around with a broad caster in a boat and putting it out or broadcasting it by hand). Do not just pour it out like corn - a pile of it will kill anything immediatley around it.

the idea is you broad cast it and as the tide comes in and out it pulls the fertilize through the snot, eel grass, coon grass, etc and adds some more nutrients to it. (at least that has always been our thought on how it works).

we also fertilize the hell out of the edges of our blinds. helps with late season cover and makes grass a little taller.

That has just been the mixture we have found works well for us in SELA (Biloxi Marsh/Chef Pass).

If you are putting in land locked ponds or ponds with less tide - dont put out as much 13-13-13

100% go with DMJ. If you're going in August, tell them to bring Capt. McHugh along as August is prime Tarpon time to the North and South of where they generally anchor. Jeremy is a hell of a tarpon fisherman, if y'all are looking for something to add to the speckled trout beat down.

it's disgusting. water start even resembling salt water until south side of 1/2 moon. Even then its not great a couple of days ago.

Generally, you can get a decent idea of how "clean" it is by checking salinity levels at the CSX bridge. CSX Bridge Gauge

Looks like it shot up today, i presume from the wind and the river on the down slope. Once the salinity gets above 6-7ppt the water in the lake is generally very nice.

0-2 is muddy.

3-5 is what we call redfish water.

Depends on type of fishing you are looking for. Presumably its salt water.

If that is the case, the LaFrance community south of Pearlington, MS (on the East Pearl River) gives great access to the Louisiana Marsh from the Cat Island area all the way back into Rigoletes. Fishing is best, but there are local areas to duck hunt as well on both the Louisiana and Mississippi side (which can be helpful during a long duck split). The community is "remote" but you can be in Bay St. Louis in 20-25 minutes or can be at the local grocery/gas station in about 10 minutes.

Another great on is the Lake Catherine Area, although it is overcrowded and the prices there are more extreme. Also doesnt help that DOTD keeps closing the bridges.

I have always loved Empire/Grand Bayou area. Close enough to civilization that if something goes wrong you can get home - but also remote enough with plenty of Marsh. Only down side is hunting is not as good.

All around a camp really needs to be somewhere either 1) its close and convenient for you and family to go often (think GI or Lake Catherine) or 2) you have a wife that doesn't care that you go off 3-4 hours every other weekend for multiple days while she stays at home (think Venice).

Tl;Dr: where are you located? How far do you want to drive? How much does your wife care about you being gone?

Disgusting. A people ask why are tarpon are MIA on the West Side of the River now and why the sea of bullreds are gone...

5 days before new/full moon and 2 days after has always been our rule of thumb.

Fish when you can - but that rule seems to help.

In youre case, 5/6 potential days fall within that rage - so i'd say you're good regardless.

The most telling are the abstentions:

Bamburg
Boyer
Bryant
Butler
Carrier
Carter, R.
Chassion
Echols
Henry, C.
Knox
Newell
Young

Interesting, on the bill just before HB 855, the only Representatives that were absent were those in bold. Not saying the rest specifically abstained, but it smells fishy.

You're not wrong but, respectfully, you must not hunt a lot of public when there's a Youtube hunter behind every tree in the National Forest/WMA the first 2.5 weeks of season (especially in MS).

by end of April/Early May most of the "hunters" are worn out, pissed off, wife has already spanked em, or limited out/shot a bird.

In my opinion there is nothing worse than trying to work a bird with 2-5 other people running from god knows where to you and spooking the bird. That problem greatly reduces at the end of april/may

I agree, early season birds are easy to kill. but when it comes to the easiest time, in my opinion it will always be end of april/may.

Happy to hunt them whenever we can - i think pushing the season back has been extremely beneficial for our state. Wish Mississippi would do the same.

What's odd is the meeting does not show on the "Upcoming Meetings" tab on legis.la.gov. I called the assistant for the committee who advised the meeting is still on and that the "agenda would be posted shortly." That was at 10am this morning...

As of 2:16pm, it is still not posted.

That's awesome. Our Pond Mallards hatched out 13 fuzz balls a week ago. We made them the Hen Houses like Delta make for the prairie.

Have 11 more in our flight pen that are laying like crazy. Have 48 eggs in incubator and another 30 going in tonight. Then going to let the hens raise their own.

That's crazy - even throwing out ALL the form letters looking at 474 : 6 (Opposition:Support) or simplified to 79:1

Throw out the non-staters but keep the form letters looking at 503:6. Simplified to 83.833 : 1 .