Thursday’s stocking of 80,000-plus Florida fingerling bass in Lake Dauterive-Fausse Pointe reminded me of previous efforts to put bass in the lake system frequented by so manypeoplefrom in and around the Teche Area.

There were some great volunteer efforts in the 1990s after Hurricane Andrew decimated the entire fish population in the lakes as well as in the Atchafalaya Basin. That was in 1992. In the following months, adult-sized bass were brought here by bass anglers as far away as Houma and Gonzales to help us replenish the bass population in Lake Dauterive-Fausse Pointe, an effort spearheaded by, among others, Malcolm Crochet of Loreauville.