Pine Island Bayou

Pine Island Bayou is a tributary of the Neches River located in southeast Texas.

Excluding the last few miles north of Beaumont, the area is not densely populated, and some small towns include Sour Lake and Saratoga, the latter the birthplace of country singer George Jones.

The areas is characterized by swamps, cypress sloughs, hardwood bottomland, palmetto-oak flats, and baygalls.

[3][4] The black bear (Ursus americanus) once common in the area were extirpated by the first few years of the 20th century.

[6] One source stated that Pine Island Bayou had a total of 56 species of fish on record,[7] including alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula), bowfin (Amia calva), largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), yellow bullhead (Ictalurus natalis), warmouth (Lepomis gulosus), and bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus).

Pine Island Bayou map: drainage basin highlighted in green; Pine Island Bayou heavy blue line; Mayhaw Creek (southwest) and Little Pine Island Bayou (northeast) fine blue lines
Palmetto-oak flats habitat in the Pine Island Bayou basin. Big Thicket National Preserve, Hardin Co. Texas (October 2019)