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ratred55 · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 8:36 pm Post subject: FREEZE FISH KILL---CORPUS CHRISTI

With the weather conditions forecasted for this week and weekend, does anyone think we will see another fish kill? Does anyone remember the last fish kill here in Corpus and how long did the low temps last? The weatherman is prediciting very cold temps Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Does anyone have any contacts with the TPW and have heard if there is a major fish kill how long will they BAN fishing? You know where the fish will be this weekend.........

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ratred55 · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 8:56 pm Post subject:

I hope no one is planning to go out this weekend and plan to net fish that are floating. If you get caught I understand it will be a hefty fine.

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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:25 pm Post subject:

Check this out: http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Weather.aspx?location=USAR0336
What we get y'all get, only a day or two later and a LITTLE warmer!!! Embarassed

It's 27 degrees out there right now and supposed to drop to 20 tonight. This is a COLD air mass y'all! The only thing that may save you is that it's not coming in on 40 mph north winds that cause mixing and evaporative cooling. That would REALLY make the water temp drop fast!!!.

I know this: The deep holes (ship channel) should be stacked up with some fish! Cool

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DBE1982 · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 15 Apr 2006 Posts: 376

Wasn't the last major freeze/fish kill the one in 89?? Before that it was 83 i believe. Red tide, and now a freeze, may be slow fishing for a couple of years. I know after the freeze in 89, fishing was tough for a year or 2 afterwards.

landlocked beachbum · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:43 pm Post subject:

Weren't they also allowing people to net fish because they would go to waste anyway?
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robul · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 2677

my 40 creek and sprite is still half full!! sorry yalls are empty!! Come one now its only uphill from here!!

snakecan2 · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 10:19 pm Post subject:

maybe i should actually go fishing this weekend, i mean netting.. fishing.. uhm.. i can put a hook in the mouth.. Razz

yeah, and then have the kids pull it in Cool

uhm.. does that work.. Crying or Very sad

winds should drop prior to solid cold stuff, but stil keeping me from taking some that dont have extreme cold weather gear.. hum.. if it wasnt for play offs be down there.. well that can change.. mrs has cold weather gear.. i have fish net.. hummn.

stay warm.. and drink more
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larry meinert · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 10:43 pm Post subject:

I have caught red fish in the surf in Feb when the wind was hard from the North. A good fire and 1/2 jug of tequila and you would think it was November. L

ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

Snake, if f I see pictures of you and 10 other guys with some glazed-over bloated looking 30+ inch trout next week, I am going to be a little suspicious... Smile

On a serious note, im with you DBE, I am getting a little concerned. How bad was it after the last freeze. I heard it was tough. If I decide to commit to living in Corpus for another 4 years, and then the fishing takes a serious hit, I am going to be one grumpy dude. Lets cross our fingers...
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DBE1982 · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 15 Apr 2006 Posts: 376

For the first couple of years following the freeze it was tough, but picked back up nicely. I was a youngster then, but still remember LoL, and my old man brings it up all the time. I saw pics of numerous 30" plus trout washed up in the land cut, and remember reports of 36" ones found.. Mother nature takes it course for a reason though, not much we can do to stop that. just have to sit back and hope for the best..

sambo · Pony Mullet Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 76 Location: Austin

Seriously guys come on!
No need to run to Mexico to stay warm. The forecast calls for the lowest to be around 33.
Fish will dive deep and stay warm. Yes there will be some wind which makes it colder but the fish are not dumb, that’s why it is called fishing and not catching!!

No need to Panic about a fish kill if there are some dead one floating it will probably be bait fish in the flats.

If you brave the cold just fish deep (Quarantine, ship channels, pure oil channel, any deep hole.....)

CHINS UP!!!! GET READY FOR THE BIG UGLY TO START MOVING!!!

KEEP ON FISHING

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Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:52 am Post subject:

Sambo has a point on the upcoming cold snap. Based on the forecast map from this morning, the temps should not be in the low 20's along the coast.

http://www.srh.weather.gov/images/fxc/crp/long.png

That was the range of temps that caused the BIG freeze of '89.

Another good point we have going for us now is the bay temps are already low. It's those sudden arctic blasts that come on the heels of a warm period that makes for the huge cold-kills. I remember being in shorts and it being windy as-all-can-be the week before Christmas '89.

Skillzzz9 · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:10 am Post subject:

All I know is that this is the first good year for my tangerines and this freeze is going to kill this years bud sites. Shucks, five years of careful growing going to waste.
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wallhanger · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:25 am Post subject:

I remember the fish kill back in the 80's. Mike Yurias was on Channel 3 for the fishing tip of the week telling people to grab a net and go fishing. He said the only thing to watch out for was to make sure they were still moving somewhat indicating not completely dead but stunned. Anyone remember this. I remember my dad looking at me like I was a new artificial lure that he could wait to send out to the fish. I ended up looking like the Michelin man with waders on breaking through the ice close to shore to get to the floating fish in the Oso.