The last few storms have taken a toll on the sacalait . I've fished sacalait for 30 years , mainly in tickfaw , blind , and Amite rivers .

Sacalait fishing was awesome before Katrina . It wasn't nothing to catch 80 keepers before noon and then go back in the evening and catch another 80 , if you wanted . It has never recovered since , and these last few storms hasn't helped the situation . You can still catch a few but it's tough fishing .

Yes before the storm I was able to easily catch 50 crappie in no time.Just don't understand why Bass, Reds,and Trout haven't missed a beat,but can't find Crappie nowhere in St.Bernard. Thanks for your input.

Sacalait are delicate . You can throw a catfish in the bottom of the boat and he'll live for a long time , where a sacalait will be dead in 10 minutes . I guess that's why the catfish and bass survive the storms better than sacalait .

I'm thinking about getting a lil pond boat and start trying to catch a few in the ponds . It's either that or go fight the bass fishermen in the spillway . I just hate pulling a boat that far .

Did the storm surge kill off the sac-a-lait in The Highway canal and Tchefuncte River and Tangipahoa River/ Bedico Creek and Bayou Lacombe too?

Was down fishing from laplace to manchac last weekend. Sacalait are almost non existent in the area. talked to lots of fishermen and no one has really caught many at all since the storm.

I have fished the same area, the same pond, off of the pearl river for 20 years. I would allway come out with HUGE stringers. Last few years, i am lucky if I catch 10 fish. I could not understand what happened, but it this theory seems reasonable.