Security Zones

[PaulMyers]

Originally Posted by evis102

This is old news. I has been in effect just not enforced.

True dat.

[Gottogo49]

You know if the Commandant in Port Arthur would like to do something useful, he could make the area around the Calcasieu point boat launch a No Wake Zone. Some of the tugs that dock by the precious LNG ship run by the boat launch so fast that they rock the dock with their wake. I was told that some of the reason why the LNG issue hasn't been much of a problem in the past is that the bottom has fallen out of the natural gas market. They have not brought in very many ships because there is little profit in it. So why make the security zone enforcement an issue now?

[KDM]

If it wasn't for the CCA there wouldn't be any fish in Calcasieu Lake!!!!!!!!!!!! Ask me how I know

[longcast]

How do u know. Lol

[joshdomingue]

How you know?

[PaulMyers]

Originally Posted by KDM

If it wasn't for the CCA there wouldn't be any fish in Calcasieu Lake!!!!!!!!!!!! Ask me how I know

How do u know?

[KDM]

back in the day of netting you couldn't buy a trout or a redfish in Calcasieu Lake and CCA got rid of the nets. When I say CCA I mean the dedicated recreational fishermen that spent hours in Baton Rouge, hanging out of helicopters filming illeagal and unattended nets, etc... Without CCA there would be no fish left in that lake. If you believe otherwise you are sadly mistaken.

[PaulMyers]

Originally Posted by KDM

If you believe otherwise you are sadly mistaken.

You just told us to ask you how you knew, so we did.

[KDM]

yeah I know and appreciate the humor it just gets to me when folks who were still in diapers when we were down at the capital fighting for what we have today, say negative things about CCA. They either don't know the history of the organization or don't care. Anyway I am grateful for what has been accomplished so that my sons and theirs have such an awesome estuary to fish in.

[PaulMyers]

Originally Posted by KDM

yeah I know and appreciate the humor it just gets to me when folks who were still in diapers when we were down at the capital fighting for what we have today, say negative things about CCA. They either don't know the history of the organization or don't care. Anyway I am grateful for what has been accomplished so that my sons and theirs have such an awesome estuary to fish in.

I agree!

[eman]

LOL i was at the capitol and i did fight against the nets and i did agree to the limits as that was the ONLY way we were ever going to get rid of the nets .
But that was then and this is now
Actually when the net fight was going on the group was GCCA. The men that started that group were not worried about the bottom line and star tournements they were worried about my and your kids and grand kids haveing trout and reds to catch.
The CCA as it stands now is trying to rest on the laurels of what those folks did back then. Used to they would fight for the rights of the recreational fisherman.
Now they are in cahoots w/ the big coastal land owners and the politicians.
That's my opinion and the only way it will change is to see changes in the actions of CCA . We will just have to agree to disagree. or not.

[KDM]

Having been one of those early members of GCCA and having served as Lake Charles Chapter president, State president and on the national board I will have to disagree with you because it was exactly politics that got us what we have today. The reality of any conservation effort boils down to politics. As ugly as that is, it is what it is.

[Gottogo49]

I knew that I was poking at a hornets nest but wow, them hornets got horns.

[evis102]

Originally Posted by KDM

back in the day of netting you couldn't buy a trout or a redfish in Calcasieu Lake and CCA got rid of the nets. When I say CCA I mean the dedicated recreational fishermen that spent hours in Baton Rouge, hanging out of helicopters filming illeagal and unattended nets, etc... Without CCA there would be no fish left in that lake. If you believe otherwise you are sadly mistaken.

There may be more fish now but my dad and his friends never had trouble catching fish. I think you are going alittle far saying there would be no fish left. Matter of fact after seeing how they handle there business when dealing with the 2 boats my mom won it is hard to believe they can do anything right.