Biscayne Lake
Went out today for a little exercise on the bay. Kayak exercising. Went out of BP and headed south. There was hardly any salt in the water. I honestly felt I was yaking on a lake. Did not see any fish, or other signs of marine life.
The canal damns are wide open and flowing. Dumping this much fresh water in the bay is not good at all.
What's going on with all those projects to release water into the Everglades instead of our bays?
Any movement or just more political bullS..t.
In any case, this sucks for the bay and everyone that enjoys fishing it.
Take Care,
Ed
The canal damns are wide open and flowing. Dumping this much fresh water in the bay is not good at all.
What's going on with all those projects to release water into the Everglades instead of our bays?
Any movement or just more political bullS..t.
In any case, this sucks for the bay and everyone that enjoys fishing it.
Take Care,
Ed
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Agreed. North Bay has been the same every afternoon.
Read it, you will have a different view of our everglades.
Ed
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Now for some practical stuff. When rain turns areas fresh if you want to find the fish you have to find the salt.... and there are times when that means darned nearly all the way to the oceanside keys.... On the Gulf side of the 'Glades I was taught some years ago that the transition line between fresh and salt during flood season is one of the places where the fish will be... The easiest way to find it is to keep dipping your hand in the water and just tasting it for salt - the moment you no longer taste salt in any river - turn around, run a half mile downstream and you should find the salt and the fish to go with it..... There are days this time of year when you can kill an entire baitwell full of whitebaits if you don't check the water at a river mouth.....
By the way if you think Biscayne Bay has problems when it's flood season you should be glad you're not up around Stuart where continuous dumping of freshwater (heavily contaminated with fertilizer) is being drained out of Lake Okeechobee - and it goes on for days....
Bob LeMay
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I have to agree. Even the cuda are on a big decline. used to be able to toss some topwater at them, and they had good size. now there's just a few babies around.
If we started treating the Bay better you'd see a dramatic comeback but I'm not holding my breath...
Bob LeMay
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that's nutz but totally believable. BBay at 79th st for example. the 1st island just south of the marina used to hold tons of cudas. we would pass by on the way home or make a cheap trip out of it with topwaters. now it's almost a ghost town. even further south closer to Blackpoint I noticed the same thing. If they put restrictions on cuda, maybe they can keep this from happening; instead of considering them a trash fish.
Good point. In all reality cudas truly are the #1 underrated sports fish in south fl. in terms of bang for the buck (explosive hits, fast action, ease of accessibility, eagerness to bite artificials, etc). Its easy to take them for granted, or consider them a nuisance, until they gone. Maybe they all wised up and are camped out under the yellowtail boats.
Good point. In all reality cudas truly are the #1 underrated sports fish in south fl. in terms of bang for the buck (explosive hits, fast action, ease of accessibility, eagerness to bite artificials, etc). Its easy to take them for granted, or consider them a nuisance, until they gone. Maybe they all wised up and are camped out under the yellowtail boats.[/QUOTE]
not too mention they keep the flats clean, and the bait moving.
Where's the outrage?
I know Florida Sportsman has done a few articles documenting the slow pace of restoration, but they need to amp it up, just like they did to get the gill nets banned. Get a constitutional amendment that gets things moving. I don't know but as long as we stand by and watch, the Glades continues to die and so does everything that is associated with it, i.e Biscayne Bay, Indian River lagoon, Caloosahatchee river and surrounding areas. Where's our hero?
Take Care,
Ed
I've watched this process closely (and even spoken up occasionally... ) since the late seventies. In the early years we lost every conservation fight hands down - ultimately that was what finally lead to the net ban amendment (but that's another story). My best hope is that someone at the State level will take a strong hand but that would mean actually committing funds (which no one has...). My guess is that the day I'm no longer around we'll still be arguing about what to do....
Wish it weren't so, and highly recommend THE SWAMP by Michael Grunwald for anyone wanting to learn a bit more about man's dealings with the Everglades over the last four hundred years. It will open your eyes a bit. The rest is up to us.
Bob LeMay
(954) 435-5666
Bob, totally agree, wow, could only imagine how good the fishing would be after a few years, if commercial shrimping would be outlawed in the bay. Those rollers on the bottom just take everything. If only Biscayne National park would be treated like Everglades National Park.
Don't get it....
Ed