Mile 246.5 - 246.5 - 245.8 LBD Sandbar at Bottom of Profit Chute

John Ruskey

20 Apr 2026 � 1 min read

246.5 - 245.8 LBD Sandbar at Bottom of Profit Chute

As you come around the southwesterly point of Profit Island you will pass a skinny sandbar with camping up to 30 BG, that connects to a long 2-mile sandbar stretching along the entire southern or bottom end of the island, gradually descending from 30BG, to 25, to 20, halfway down the sand emerges at 15, and at the very end of this long skinny bar not until 10BG. This is all to say that you will always find good shoreline camping at any water level below 30BG somewhere along the bottom end of Profit Island. However, you will also have towboat search lights prying into your camp all night long also. The tow pilots are more possessive of their normally pitch black islands and towheads in these lower stretches of river. When they see a campfire gleaming in the darkness, their curiosity (or feeling of dominion) gets the better of them, and they will light up your tents and everything else in your camp under their scrutinizing glare. Accept this disrespectful light show with patience. You get to enjoy the campsite, the fire and the stars. They can only look on and feel pangs of jealousy.

The first indication of Baton Rouge will appear as you pass downstream from Profit Island, maybe with puffs of smoke in the air, maybe discharges from refinery off-venting, or maybe the giant pile of refuse at the Baton Rouge landfill. During high water, you can see the stadium lights of Mumford Stadium at Southern University (SU). You are still twelve river miles from Baton Rouge, however, because of the huge hairpin turn at Thomas Point. (Mike Beck)

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