Florida Folk's?
 

Just curious about all the issues with the manatee and turtles down there because of the weather is it as bad as the news is portraying it? Thanks. Bruce

Re: Florida Folk's?
 

In my 56 years of being born and raised here..
This is the worst we have ever seen.
The whole state is loosing its Snook population.
Even Catfish, Menhaden, Croakers & Mullet are floating.

The Manatee's are on top of them selves in the warm
outlet springs and power plant discharge areas..

Time will tell.

This has been 10 days of nightly freezing and highs
barely getting above 50. :(

Turtles by the 1000's all over the state are being stunned.

Only upside to this freeze is the Iguana's are dropping
like flies out of the trees.

See ya, Ken

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I have also never seen this duration of cold temps. All kinds of fish were floating yesterday in my canal. I counted 34 snook and 2 tarpon just sitting there at my dock today, hardly moving.

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Our water temp is 48 in Ft. Myers. I've heard early estimates of 95% of our snook are dead. Ag crops are a loss.

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Wow..... More like axis warming global cooling...hope it works out for all down south it affects all of us

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My wife's cousin told me of alot of speckled trout floating around in the upper Albemarle Sound.

Re: Florida Folk's?
 

This will be as bad as the big snook kill in the late 70's. As for manatees, maybe this will naturally drive them back to the south to the Caribbean and Central America where they came from. I think I read somewhere that they migrated to Florida comparatively recently - meaning over the last several hundred years. Could be wrong - my memory is shot - but that's what I think I read.

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On another note, the guy running the marina here said he saw a cooler full of 12" speckled perch, (Crappe),this morning. Guess I'll have to break the ole MonArk out.

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Lot's of snook in broward county & several reports of yellowtail, mutton & bonefish coming from the keys. Not good at all!

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I have lived in the same house since 1978. This was the first time I have ever seen my canal with a sheet of ice on it.