The Fishing Connection: Who, Or What Is To Blame?

In the past years here on the coast fishing the bay, I’ve noticed that every year about the same time we get some brown waters in the bay to fish in and in a couple of weeks it would disappear.

Some of the guides would tell me the cause was the drain off water from the shrimp farms.

The shrimp farms use algae or some other foreign matter to color the waters so the shrimp don’t boil in the raising ponds from the sun.

I don’t have a clue if this is the problem we are experiencing or Mother Nature just threw a monkey wrench in the bay.

If there’s not a fish kill over this then the population of fish will increase many fold.

None of the Captains I have recently spoken with have been catching limits of anything, with some coming back blanked all together.

One of my buddies who fishes on bottom with Mullet and Ballyhoo said the Hardheads aren’t even biting.

Who or what do we blame it on? Terrorist, Aliens, Nestle’s Chocolate Co., whoever?

It will certainly get better for us locals, but for those who come from far away, I sure wish they could see our beautiful bay on a nice sunny summer day.

They would fall in love with it like the rest of us have!