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re: Who else didn't know Lake Pontchartrain was a top 5 U.S. destination for deadly sharks
Posted on 2/25/26 at 4:44 pm to PelicanState87
Posted on 2/25/26 at 4:44 pm to PelicanState87
The lake is essentially a nursery for bull sharks. The adults swim back to the gulf pretty early after giving birth. The several non-lethal bites over the last 5-10 years were mostly kids getting ankle bit by small adolescent sharks.
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Posted on 2/25/26 at 4:46 pm to PelicanState87
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an impressive 630-square-foot estuary
What is this, an estuary for ants?!
Posted on 2/25/26 at 4:49 pm to Penrod
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When I was a kid, about 55 years ago, me and my family were at West End and saw a flat boat with about 15 sharks in it. They were all about three or four feet long and caught in the Lake. But I’ve never seen a live one in the Lake.
I have. 2005, a couple weeks before Katrina. My buddy and I were fishing off of the deck of a camp in the East on Hayne Boulevard. Sun had gone down, we had a 1,000 watt halogen shining into the water. Little four foot sand shark passed repeatedly, we tried to hook him, but failed. THEN we considered what we would do if we did and tried to get him up the 12 feet to the deck. That idea ended it, but we watched him and a humongous alligator gar that kept passing as well.
Posted on 2/25/26 at 4:57 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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Lake Pontchartrain is an impressive 630-square-foot estuary
I guess they meant mile.
A 630 square foot estuary with bull sharks would be impressive.
Posted on 2/25/26 at 4:57 pm to PelicanState87
Yep - when you drive your car off the bridge it’s the sharks that you have to worry about.
Posted on 2/25/26 at 4:59 pm to PelicanState87
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it's safe to say the number is high.
I don’t think so.
Posted on 2/25/26 at 5:05 pm to nicholastiger
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definitely would not swim in that lake especially when they open the Bonnet Carre
That's probably the best time to swim. I know it's dirtier than usual but all the fresh water from the river pushes out all the saltwater species into Lake Borgne and the Mississippi Sound.
Anyway, it's mostly baby and adolescent sharks in Lake Pontchartrain. The pissed off big bulls are cruising the shores of Gulf Shores and Destin.
Posted on 2/25/26 at 5:06 pm to Penrod
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When I was a kid, about 55 years ago, me and my family were at West End and saw a flat boat with about 15 sharks in it. They were all about three or four feet long and caught in the Lake. But I’ve never seen a live one in the Lake.
I'm 73 and spent a lot of time swimming in the lake as a kid. I can't remember anyone in our family having A/C to ward off the summer's heat and I wish I had a dollar for all the times me and some of my cousins would take busses to the lake and wind up swimming and tanning all day long.
I can only remember one time where we actually saw a small shark swimming near the seawall in the area we swam in, and it didn't stop us from getting back in the water.
Posted on 2/25/26 at 5:16 pm to BigBinBR
quote:Sharklife dont play.
There is a bunch of them. A kid was bit by a small one in the Pontchartrain years ago.You get big ones in the diversion too and I've seen them in the Atchafalaya as well.Every once in a while you will also hear of them in the Mississippi up by St. Louis.
Willy “Bones” Bottoms
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