Do You Think Someone::::::>
 

Will break the Calcasieu Lake record for trout........Just a thought I was reading the story of the guy that caught 11.25lbs....Share your thoughts..;)

No. Since the limit went down to 15 for the guides the growth of our trout has slowed. Lol

I think someone will its just a waiting game.

X2. Theres a 12+ out there right now.

I think it's possible but not for another year or 2. Trout are getting back to the way it was in the late 90s til 04. 04 was a legit 9-10 pound year!

Bruce Baugh told me that one of his buddies caught an 11.4 and released it. He thought the lake record was over 12...

Recently? i would think bruce knows the lake record

X2 if he didnt....well missed it.

Ima catch it tomorrow

He told me the story recently. But i think this was a few years back. His buddy was a Texan wading alone.

Pics or it didn't happen , but I caught a 13lber and let it go ..thought record was 15lbs but to get to the question


No...
What brings big trout into a lake???? Abundance of bait....that also brings in lots of small trout. With 15 trout limit you are not keeping the number of small trout down enough that 10-11lbs trout will not come to compete for food, when they can sit offshore and eat at will less competition ..

I believe the ship channel holds some 10 11 and even 12ibs trout in deeper holes but they don't move just sit and eat mullet and shrimp..

When lake limits were 50, and 25 you saw good numbers of 10lb trout and now its almost unheard of these days

This is why ...... You raise the limits back to 25 and I guarantee you have 10lb trout being caught in STAR ,shootouts and events like before .....


But politics figured they want a bunch of small trout and keep the hogs at bay

Dude has more 8+ hanging on the wall than you see in your dreams. I can understand lying about a fish that one personally caught and released but why would you lie for a friend? #comebacktoreality

I know he does been in his house....but let a lake record go.....yea right...I call BS on that
Maybe one caugt upper 10s but who let's go a freaken 11lb trout that will die that day it was letting go

I agree. Limit needs to be back up for big trout. Use to catch 7-8 pound trout on the reg. Haven't caught one over 7 in a while. Sucks. But we all know the guides own big lake and regulate it as they wish. Big lake "Obama" guides lol

The story was that one of his friends from Texas was wading BL alone. Caught an 11.4 and thought that the lake record was over 12 so he released it. Bruce said the guy was an exceptional angler and had caught numerous big trout before. I guess when you get to a certain age you forget about putting everything on the wall and just fish because you enjoy it. Obviously you and I aren't there yet because I wouldn't have released it either.

It was not the guides who did that...it was a certain small group of guys who had Zero facts and got the CCA guys to help push it....

When you go catch 60 trout in 30 mins in june ....there is way to many trout

You want facts....just pull up history of the STAR, and Trout shoot out results and look at the drop in size after the limit change

Hell a upper 6 has been winning the shoot out...lord that's weak

But like you've said which is true prolly 80% of the fisherman cant or have never caught a 30 trout limit....

Exactly. Look at the shootout results. I can remember when a 6 pound trout wouldn't make the top 10 or 20. Now 6's are winning it.

That's true but that 20% can only take 1500 instead or 2500 a day ,,,,so add that up

so you are saying there is only 25 boats that can catch a limit of fish in a given day? There is more guide boats than that on the water during the summer in a day

Over all year around...I would say out of all the guide boats 50% limited out every day ....


I watch lots of guide boats come in with out there limit often...

5475 a year per person is the daily limit if you fished everyday......now narrow that down to the amount of times you fish per year....once a week for a year would be 780.....I know there are a majority of the fisherman do not catch 780 in a year....So why keep the limits low.....doesnt make CENTS....Same goes with REDS too....15 trout daily limit is BS.......

I'm not around my books but before limit change I wanna say I was putting I'm my boat over 5000 trout s year....

Over the last few years just over 3,ooo

Just sit at Hebert landing on a good calm good fishing day..... You will still have around 90% of boats come in with out the boat limit
Not guides just people

So why have a 15 trout limit when almost all can't catch 15 more less 25

agreed.....make it 25 for the people that can catch 25 and thin the small ones out.....bet I caught over 1300 at NIGHT....;)

"W" did you catch bigger fish back 5-6 years ago or do you catch bigger fish now.....

Caught bigger fish with my dad in the 80 and 90s ..weight what was that?? It all went to the cleaning table but I have old pics with hogs on the table ....

Dad said they caught 40 plus trout over 5-7lbs at the jetties one day

I didn't start caring about weight until the internet when people starting talking about weight...most of us growing up never cared how big a trout was...hell I might of caught a 9lb trout when I was 5 6 7 who knows....all trout were big.....just til the 2000 you started catching lot more school trout from 12-16 inches

I took my dad fishing a few years ago and the 1st two trout were about 13inchs....he said you can't keep that..... I said 12 its in....he said boy we would never bring those back in with us...what the hell this lake turned into a nursery



So that shows how big the trout adv. Was back then

Love me some 14" eaters.....best eatin ones..lol...

I agree! A lake record trout will get you some high fives and maybe a couple free rods and extra stickers to go on your boat, but who cares? This is what ruined bass fishing = trophy management and what will ruin other fisheries if we continue to go down the trophy mentality path. After ALL the years of trophy bass management the fact still remains that the record had never been broken, and that some old dude in a homemade boat caught the largest bass ever in a river in Georgia and just happened to weigh it before he ATE IT!:)


I have eaten three fish that would have made record books, a white crappie, flathead, and bluegill. We had this discussion going on at crappie.com. People are trying to get limits reduced on CRAPPIE = A PANFISH:rotfl::eek: and they will not listen to reason, but anyway, here is one of my posts talking about this:

The number 10 white crappie in the state of Louisiana is 2.57 lbs, there have probably been tens of thousands of white crappie caught bigger than that people never even thought about putting in the record books, I have caught one 2.9, that I took pics of and threw in the freezer to mount

White bass - to get in the top 10 all you have to do is beat 3.12 lbs, that is probably broken once a week at Lake Yucatan in the summer during normal water years (add Sabine River to this as well)

Bluegill - you need to beat 1.14 lbs to get in the top 10, again that is probably beaten at Yucatan at least once a week when water is right, I have caught them there bigger than that. I bet Treboryerf has caught em much bigger than that since he fishes Yucatan

Channel Catfish - There are two entries, and if you can beat 3.75 lbs you are in the top 2 in the record books, this record is probably broken every single day of the year

Flathead catfish - 26 lbs will put you in the top ten, I have caught em on poles bigger than that, and its likely 10,000 other people have too

Chinquapin - 1.64 lbs will get you in the top ten, people fishing off the bank have caught bigger ones than this as well as probably 10,000 others

Goggleye - 1.31 will put you in the top ten, a top ten fish is probably caught once a week in the Atchafalaya Basin

My dad preaches that back in the 80s they would sit around the washout area and catch trout all day. And lots of 6 and 7s almost every trip. Guess there is some truth to it.

:eek: What? When did Waltrip sell Big Lake to the guides??????:p

no doubt that the lake held bigger trout before the limit change. just talk to anyone who has been fishing it since the 80's. Jeff Poe knows better than anyone, it would be ignorant to argue with him.

A stupid person will NOT argue with someone with facts. LIKE POE.

Exactly ...Poe was 100% against the limit change and now we are seeing the effects of it.....way too many small trout....soon we will be like the east side of the state ...100000 of dinks

W was right, I looked up his IP addy and Ricky Bobby was Ryan Rack, he is now banned.

Please tell me the thing was not 29". :rolleyes:

Good one chickennnn

I can sniff that dude out of a Taliban safehouse

Need I remind you that the two biggest trout ever recorded in Louisiana waters came from "the east side of the state"?

Salty when was the last time somebody won the whole cca trout div from the east or the last time someone landed a 9-10# trout

Salty boy caught 10 ....10lbers few years ago.....ol Hopedale Hustler

I have no clue. I was just stating a fact to keep W in control.

If that "Super Bowl Sow" that Kenny Kreiger caught on them bridge "polls" would have been "weighted" outside.....it would have hit 12 lbs. All it would have taken was one ray of sunlight or a puff of wind (11.997).

:rotfl:

Yeah, three in the same year. I ain't never heard of a 10 lber coming from St. Bernard Parish waters.

What is the lake record??
 

I'm new to Big Lake and up until yesterday had never caught trout on plastic!!! Damn I had fun, what is the record weight for Big Lake?

This is the trout...believe its 11.2lbs

Poor trout shoulda been thrown back, I bet it was full of eggs and woulda spawned a whole bunch of eggs with huge trout genetics:rotfl:

Anyway thats a pig, but the guy on the left looks like a guy I sometimes work with who looks a LOT like Gary Buseys son

Maybe? Jake Busey?

Hunter Mahoney. He used to be a member of this site. I talked to him at festival the other day. Live shrimp and popping cork...

Yea that was Evis that said trout genetics lmao...he forgot that trout had the same genetics at one pound as eight pounds
Wish I could find that post

Awesome!



Tell him to come back to the site, new o'w'nership:)