Black Bayou Hoston

manoduk · September 08, 2020, 10:45:07 AM

BB is almost covered with Salvinia. As bad as it has been in yrs

BassmanRudy · September 08, 2020, 10:55:18 AM

Yeah I saw some pics from the dam that looked like you could walk across the lake and never see/touch water! That %^&/ is so disgusting.

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Mike Cork · September 08, 2020, 12:54:48 PM

Hosston has a chance, at least when the rains come it' washes it over the dam. Unfortunately the dam is in bad sorts and they are looking at draining the lake to fix it. I'm afraid we're gonna loose this awesome fishery before long...

Nutt · September 09, 2020, 07:29:04 AM

Fished out there the first part of August and couldnt get down the boat road past #13 if I remember correctly. We fished water that was clean, then looked up and we were closed in with the crap. Had to idle a long way thru the stuff until we found water that wasnt as clogged up. Very disheartening to see it the way it was. I see Cypress is getting pretty bad on the North end as well. I cross Caddo every day and see huge mats of the stuff flowing towards the dam.

BassmanRudy · September 09, 2020, 03:45:13 PM

Quote from: Mike Cork on September 08, 2020, 12:54:48 PM
Hosston has a chance, at least when the rains come it' washes it over the dam. Unfortunately the dam is in bad sorts and they are looking at draining the lake to fix it. I'm afraid we're gonna loose this awesome fishery before long...

I would really hope that if they "do" decide to fix the dam that they would build a temp earthen dam out front of the current one. They can dig a temp spillway to the side of the current one perhaps. Lake isn't that deep compared to most.

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Mike Cork · September 09, 2020, 03:46:41 PM

That sounds to much like a great idea. I know it wasn't in the original plans.

manoduk · September 10, 2020, 01:45:34 PM

Contacted WLF and was told they didn't have money to spray. Seems they have money for what they want to address. NW La is the stepchild. Maybe they need to attach a $5 fee on Hunting and Fishing Lic to fund the problem. Problem is we can"t trust them to spend the money on the problem and maintain the money that is currently allotted in the budget for spraying. Another concern would be where the spray would be applied. Would NW La get its fair share? My Last rant is that they need to stop putting the grass carp in the lakes. Not that they are bad but the number they put in a lake. Just seems to me that they would put a small number and add too if needed. A few yrs ago they kill the fishing and duck hunting on Hosston by killing all the grass in that lake by the introduction of the carp. After that is when the Salvinia exploded. IMO!

Mike Cork · September 10, 2020, 03:53:15 PM

I don't know if spraying is the answer. A small lake like Hosston would see silting effects quickly. I've watched places on Caddo loose two feet since this all started. You probably know Hosston better than I do.

I don't know what the answer is, I know that Hosston is small enough that when the boom in the river was holding it back there, the current could wash it over the dam. It seems that all this time though, it has slowly been taking a stronger hold.

I'm ten thousand percent with you about the grass carp.

manoduk · September 10, 2020, 05:49:00 PM

Mike, I agree with you regarding the silting and it's effects on the spawn. The problem is that at this time I'm not sure what would be our other option. We can't depend on those 10 in rains to come on time. To do nothing then BBH becomes another Wallace Lake. The problem on BBH is not the Spillway, it is the roadway washing away when the spillway is opened. If they could lower the lake same as Bistineau then the silting problem would not be as bad. IMO

Mike Cork · September 11, 2020, 08:28:23 AM

I always thought it was weird that DOTD was wanting to drain the lake? That makes more sense. Seems like versus drain to rebuild the road, some sort of aqua-duct would be better more permanent solution for all.

BBH and Caddo both need an adjustable spillway

manoduk · September 13, 2020, 10:00:19 PM

If WLF or Corp Engineer would have put a system that would allow a draw down on Wallace Lake we would be fishing/duck hunting on it today. Never money to address the needs on older lakes but money to build new lakes . Sad! Maintaining existing lakes is much less expensive than building new lakes.

BassmanRudy · September 15, 2020, 07:53:57 PM

Quote from: manoduk on September 13, 2020, 10:00:19 PM
If WLF or Corp Engineer would have put a system that would allow a draw down on Wallace Lake we would be fishing/duck hunting on it today. Never money to address the needs on older lakes but money to build new lakes . Sad! Maintaining existing lakes is much less expensive than building new lakes.

I've tried fishing Wallace twice in 10 years and couldn't do much either time. Made it to the main lake from the channel once and wow it just looked like grass fields NOT water. Heard it really used to be a great fishing lake!

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