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Lost Cajun · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:57 am Post subject: Why the muddy surf?

I've been at South Padre since Sunday for a business conference and the surf near the shore was very muddy all week. About 300 to 500 yards out it cleared up nicely and turned blue quickly. I drove about 12 miles up the beach on Monday afternoon trying to find clear water with no success. The surf current was ripping north as hard as I had ever seen it.

The conference was over at noon yesterday and my flight wasn't until 5:30 so I drove over to Boca Chica. The muddy waters on that side were far worse, but still only in the first 500 yards or so.

When I flew out we stayed over the gulf all the way past Rockport and I could see the the muddy water ended at the Aransas Channel getting sucked in on an incomming tide.

I gave all of this information because I'm sure some of you are intrested in the details, but where is all the muddy water coming from? Lord knows it hasn't rain down there in a while.

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Was the water cold or colder than you expected.

Lost Cajun · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:03 am Post subject:

No, not at all. It was nice.

SurfinSapo · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:06 am Post subject:

Might be because of this:

That's all I can think would cause such a ruckus Shocked

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sheepdog · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:22 am Post subject:

Your answer is ripping longshore current

Lost Cajun · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:44 am Post subject:

bigmike585 · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:47 am Post subject:

That is the 2nd or 3rd time I have seen someone say : "the surf current was ripping north as hard as ive ever seen it"

When I was down on PINS in the middle of may this was the case. I had never experienced such a hard surf current ripping north. We threw a pound of weight on our longlines and still could not keep them in place. What gives? Will this current ever go away?

While kayaking back in during a very rough surf, a huge wave turned my kayak up on end and I wiped out. Current was traveling north so fast it took me a good 30 35 min to catch my yak. By the time I made it to land I was a helluva long ways from camp.

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LOL on Sapo!
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snakecan2 · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:35 pm Post subject:

the ripe current down in boca chica is all year long.. just the way it is down there most of the time.
but for pins not sure, would be nice when this current slows down
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topdog15 · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:32 am Post subject:

I'm w/ Sapo. I think that ten days of winds in excess of 30 mph might have something to do w/ it.
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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:06 am Post subject:

Cause and effect: currents ARE wind generated, no rocket science there! Cool

This is nothing new on the Texas coast. When I used to Surf down there in the early 70's there were only two real choises to have a decent day. One was to surf a bowl at the fishpass jetties because the south jetty redirects the current to go out instead of north, and that made it easier to stay put. The second was to take two cars: park one and hide the key and then drive south in the summer, sometimes north in the winter [always UP current] and then park and go surf. Even a mile down the beach was only good for maybe a 15 to 20 minute surf before you were passing your car!

I flew down for a surf meet at Malaquite one Thanksgiving. There was a really strong Northern blowing and the current was ripping toward Mexico. I was the only guy in my heat that even made it outside [Texans are weak paddlers, I had just come from Hawaii Cool

]. They wound up canceling the freeking meet because even when we DID make it to the lineup it was a full time job just paddling north to stay in front of Malaquite!!! Shocked

Also, I agree with lost Cajun. I've been out there more than a few times when the current was ripping in either direction and/or had big surf [for Texas] and still had green/clear water all the way to the beach. I don't know what causes the Texas coast to get so muddy so often, but from the pics that y'all post it looks to me as if there are WAY more days of green water coming to the beach than when I was a kid. Back then it was something to have a parade over!!!! Wink

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Livtoday2 · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:46 am Post subject:

Could this be the dredging material at Mansfield Jetties not settled in and being pushed North?
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