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Kilian457
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 Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 6:32 pm Post subject: Brown tide?!? |
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| What is it? Why does it happen? Does it ever go away? Fished Port Aransas to get away from it and had beautiful water pass few days and caught numerous slotted reds. |
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topdog15
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| Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 7:01 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, tried to paste a link to a paper on it, but it wouldn't show up.
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Tyler
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topdog15
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| Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 9:28 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Tyler
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Razorback
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Location: Up Chit Creek
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| Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| It sure looks like it has moved all the way up past the JFK as of today. |
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lifeaquatic
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| Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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Yuck!
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topdog15
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| Razorback wrote: | | It sure looks like it has moved all the way up past the JFK as of today. |
If it's past the JFK it may just be off-colored water from the wind blowing 25 the last several days. The brown tide organism evolved to cope with hypersalinity and has become dependent on those conditions to survive. That's what keeps the brown tide in the Laguna and why you don't see it spreading to other, less salty, areas.
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speckled.trout
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 9:58 am Post subject: |
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| topdog15 wrote: | | Razorback wrote: | | It sure looks like it has moved all the way up past the JFK as of today. |
If it's past the JFK it may just be off-colored water from the wind blowing 25 the last several days. The brown tide organism evolved to cope with hypersalinity and has become dependent on those conditions to survive. That's what keeps the brown tide in the Laguna and why you don't see it spreading to other, less salty, areas. |
Let's all hope it's just off-colored water north of the JFK. During the brown tide plague of the early '90s there were a couple of times in the spring and early summer months the stuff went all the way across Corpus Christi Bay
but did stop at the ship channel. Shamrock and the flats surrounding those areas looked like tea but only lasted a couple of years. The brown stuff in the Laguna lasted for what seemed to be a lifetime.
It took a couple of strong tropical storms pushing high-tides to move it out.
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speckled.trout
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If anyone is interested I have some articles written by Buddy Gough of the CT during the times studies were being done on the BT in the '90s.
Be more than happy to email them to you, just PM me your email address.
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Shalor
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Any good water coming up the Landcut from down south with all the south wind yall have had? |
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SeanHHH
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Drove Laguna Shores this morning from TI to JFK back down to Laguna Reef to determine if I was going to splash the boat today. Looks llike BT to me. Been doing yard work instead.
Tides are surprisingly low. Have the bull tides come in yet this spring? If not, perhaps that will help. |
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RPool
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| ST, count me in for the information. Hope all is well. I WILL get back down at some point. |
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Jetty Bandit
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| speckled.trout wrote: | If anyone is interested I have some articles written by Buddy Gough of the CT during the times studies were being done on the BT in the '90s.
Be more than happy to email them to you, just PM me your email address.
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Pm sent
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greenhornet2
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| Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 9:09 am Post subject: |
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| Murky water was a few hundred yards into CC Bay yesterday, past that was nice and green despite the wind. |
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