This is good stuff, keep it comin.

When I went fishin' in Lower Laguna Madre, an old salt down there said that the water gets so salty during a dry spring that the trout actually leave. I dunked one of my reels while wading and by the time I got home it was rusted up. That water is like battery acid.

Maybe that's why the bulls spawn offshore.

Big Burns is full of reds from Rita..my uncle has a camp in little Chenier and the 1st year they caught lots of under size reds now almost everything is keepers....those reds are not reproducing in Miami Corp...they will die out over years... Bull red has to have above 10ppt to reproduce

That's what spawn means just incase you didn't realize ;)

No you see I am just the opposite of the redfish. I will reproduce in fresh water but it just burns too much in salt water!

There is a reservoir around San Antonio that is stocked with reds. I worked on a few wells around there but never got a chance to check it out. Like people here said they don't spawn in the freshwater so the city stocks them.

Edit: calaveras lake and braunig lake. I guess it's the tpwd that stocks them

http://www.fishtrips.com/2011freshwaterpictures1.html

During droughts its not uncommon to see 50-60ppt due to evaporation.

:eek:I didnt even know that was possible. Is that area not affected by tides or something? I mean the ocean is generally around 35ppt...

Same thing happened to a curado last summer in Padre. Reel still isn't the same.......

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Yes this is thru. Cause when they open the spillway on lake p get flooded with river water the trout stay. It's deep enough for the trout to still b comfy in the lake. I don't think it's enough salinity to make em spawn; not many big fish caught when spillways are open.
Also the fresh water deposits all type of nutrients and vegetation into the lake which provides habitat and food for small bait fish; which the trout and reds Feed on. So flushing lake p is actually not a horrible thing. Bc the following year will b awesome!

Like your post! We seem to come from the same school of thought. Many times I've caught trout, and nice ones at that, with Crypremort Point showing 3-4ppm. I have always thought the trout will stay in the area if there is a salinity zone near the bottom w/ fresh water on top. Many areas in VB with coves and points will provide an area with trapped, higher level salinities; the Cove and Mud point are good examples.

Over here, only deep water is in Lake Charles and the Ship Channel.
Everything else gets wiped clean with fresh water.

I didn't realize that, until I was at a private impounded marsh in Hackberry with several biologist who were evaluating a marsh for a guy who was looking to buy the land. Bass were not growing, but were still there, after Hurricane Francis flooded over the levee's.
Biologist told him that when water evaporates, only the fresh water goes up and the salt will stay. Making it a lot more salty. If the new owner was going to buy the land and use it to fish Bass, he was going to have to fix the levee's and the diesel pump he had there.
Biologist also said too much freshwater and sun will eventually make the vegetation clog up the marsh. Their recommendation was to monitor the salinity and not let it get too high or to low.
The salinity meter was around $1500 if I am remembering correctly.

Whaddabout da LNG? Dat place is always clear when everywhere else is muddy, figger it would remain salty.

It was not clear in LNG yesterday. There was very little areas that had calm water yesterday due to the NNE winds. We fished from the back to Calcasieu Point.
Don't know about the salinity, but we saw no bait there.
Only place we saw birds was along the ship channel. White Pelicans. No Seagulls.
Few Liar Birds here and there too.

Liar Birds? I have to know what deez are

Lil white birds smaller than a gull.....they will work like gulls but very seldom will you catch fish under them. Dey liars

Yep. Theys liars.

Liar birds = Terns