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Gib · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:59 pm Post subject: Why chocolate surf?

What is your advice on the condition of the surf? The chocolate seems to linger never really going away.

I know winds can do it, but they have been light.

I am better understanding the cold water currents that do likewise, but water temperature sensor is reading over 84 degrees.

Is it possible there are colder currents not reaching temperature sensor; yet, they are present or close enough to cause water to be chocolate milk?

Not able to fish; therefore, just contemplating the weighty or more important matters or something like that for now until I am able to get a hook wet again.

eksda · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 04 Dec 2009 Posts: 288

it is the same color in galveston. the bays are beautiful green but the gulf side is awful. we fished in galvest tuesday but not much coming in. caught tons of baby whiting and did manage an 18 inch black drum but not much else. want to come down to your area but i see that you have teh same problem. wonder if the entire coast of tx is like this.

john's addicted · Horse Mullet Joined: 15 Feb 2011 Posts: 171

Very few days have I seen that the surf really cleans up. Those days are usually preceeded by a few good days of light wind, no storms, small waves... Only then will the surf get clear. Late summer is the best time for those conditions. Let one of those high pressure systems sit on top of corpus for a week and you'll see the surf clear.
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mastergunner · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:27 am Post subject:

I always tell family and friends to come down towards the end of summer. The surf is pretty and green then. Now just to many windy days close to each other.
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Bluffer · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:28 am Post subject:

Think currents has something to do with it.
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FINS · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:34 am Post subject:

All i know is its been putting a damper on the surf trout fishing! Looking at the wave height this weekend looks primo but the chocolate milk is messing things up!

NaTon D · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:46 am Post subject:

Our bays in the upper laguna are pretty nasty stained with browntide. I wonder if that is also affecting the water clarity of the nearshore surfzones?

landlocked beachbum · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:39 am Post subject:

It all can't be blamed on wind and waves. I've made the point before that my family and I were fishing on BHP on August 17th 1969, the day that Hurricane Camille was nailing NOLA. The waves were up to the bottom of the walkway at times but the water was as clear and blue/green as I've ever seen on the Texas coast and the fishing was out of this world!!!!!! Shocked

The current thingy is more likely. Of course current is caused by wind, and the normal sea breeze down there makes it haul a$$ toward Galveston for most of the year and very often flow even faster towards Tampico in the winter! Still it's possible to have a fair amount of wind that blows in a direction for a few days that will slow the current enough to allow most suspended particles to fall out of the water column. Just a thought.
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Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms mentioned that the last few years the coldwater upwellings occurred when the current made the seasonal change from south to north. She's right
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