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Brine · Horse Mullet Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 135

IMO - These insidious water quality issues are the biggest problems facing our bays and their related fisheries (aside from airboats - LOL). The specific causes are hard to unravel - and even if you do - it's hard to pin the cause and possible solutions on any one thing or source ( especially legally) . The saying - "Death By a Thousand Cuts" comes to mind. By the time there are noticeable impacts, it is very difficult to remedy the problem.
As of 2 years ago, TPWD , who you would think the public could rely upon to be a "watch dog" on how water quality impacts our fisheries and their habitat, have been effectively stripped of any real ability to comment upon and impact TCEQ' decisions by the Texas legislature. That just doesn't seem right !

Stxtopwater · Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 9:18 am Post subject:

I'm a weekend fisherman myself didn't mean to come off as a nazi. I wasn't saying they are hurting the population rather in SOME cases the out of towners I see down here are more reckless/dangerous playing chicken with boats and what not or running a long shaft 300 Yamaha over small grass beds that are recovering Mad

Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

I think the wade fisherman walking and stomping all over the sea grass are the real problem. every single step pushes grass down into the mud. all those WPP people, with kayak paddles scraping the grass away, and then stomping it into oblivian should be stopped.

kweber · Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 11:30 am Post subject:

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Bayslammer · Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:29 am Post subject:

The article was titled "where are the fish". Most of the concern is with run off causing brown tide. Question is "where are the fish"? Depends on who you ask. Is the article claiming that fishing is poor due to BT or water conditions are making fish harder to catch?

Brown Tide? Drought? Freezing water temps, Croaker for bait? More guides? More tournaments and more pressure overall...and yet trout populations sustain year after year.

I fish out of the Wildhorse Lodge regularly. I am having fewer productive trips based on numbers when fishing Baffin as a whole. I make that statement based on the catch percentage over this year to date, as compared to years past after fishing the same areas. Taking into account that fish have tails and move from area to area. Also, after reading the article, I may have to admit that I just don't know where to fish. I'm sure that next year will be just fine Very Happy

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