Just got back from fishing Leeville just up the road from Grand Isle. My
son and I caught a two man limit of specks (50), 3 flounders, 2 mangrove
snapper and one shy of a two man limit of reds (9).

Fished the area of the Timberlier Islands.

Rodney don't knock what surf we have left because we are losing 25 to 35
square miles of land a year in Louisiana. The land loss will evidentially
impact the rest of the nation. 1/3 of all the oil and natural gas comes
from or through Louisiana. Not to mention the loss of habitat will cause
destruction to the ecosystem that supports the great fisheries we have. The
fishing industry supplies seafood worldwide. Many of the same fish that is
caught in offshore waters come to the marsh to spawn.

See http://www.coast2050.gov/ for information on the vanishing coast line.
Our senators have been trying to get money to build land building projects
(freshwater diversions) and land stability projects such as wave breaks to
slow the damage. However they keep getting shut down in Washington. The
rest of the senators could care less about the situation since there is no
direct impact on them yet. The other senators do not want to give up their
share of royalties from the oil and gas drilled off the coast of Louisiana
even though their state is not impacted by the damage or the need for better
infrastructure..

Even though everyone blames the oil companies for a lot of the damage done
it is not the primary reason we have the land loss we do. The US government
is the biggest blame, when the US Army Corps of Engineers built the levees
that harness the mighty Mississippi River. This stop the annual flood that
built land and kept sal****er from flowing in some areas. We now have land
subsidence as a cause besides erosion.

Sarge