Info for those coming to Terry's who might want to fish inside:
We just spent a long weekend on the boat in the vicinity of Terry's. its coming back from last year's red tide, but not all the way yet. Fish under the phosphate docks look mostlynormal. Mangos, sheep head were normal abundance and size. Lots of tarpon 20-30 lbs, did not see any big ones. Snook VERY abundant and some BIG ones, maybe more than normal. No goliath grouper, where normally I see a dozen, 40-300 lbs.
Fish generally seemed fairly abundant, reasonable numbers of mullet jumping . Plenty of minnow type bait. Lots of swirls in the water, something eating size. Schools of rat reds along the shoreline striking at minnows, right on the beach. Lots and lots and lots of fishermen. If the presence of those guys is a good indication, the fishing is good. Oyster beds are coming back, no legals yet, but plenty of 1/2 inch little guys. Sorry, no oysters for the gathering this year. By next year we will eat well. I did not look for pin shells, figured that was a lost cause.
One negative. It looks like the red tide killed off the gastropod fauna in the local Gulf. Shell on the beach looked radically different from normal, no fresh dead, lots of types missing entirely and what was there was all old, bleached out and a lot less of it. Even considering its the end of summer and its been calm, this is different.
Saw several sick cormorants. Not sure what thats about. The other cormorants were eating well.
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10-14-2019, 04:38 PM
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