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Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

I received this email "Can you tell me when they changed the buoy marker numbers in the upper laguna madre? Its been a number of years since I fished Baffin. But I went down there last weekend and noticed that the numbers are different. The mouth of Baffin used to be #223; now its 133. Bird Island Basin used to be 121, now its 77. Just curious when they changed the numbers and why, if you know. Thanks!"

Can anyone answer this? Yeah I know I should know the answer but I don't Smile

Thanks!

Tyler
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RPool · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 2:05 pm Post subject:

Calling speckled.trout, calling speckled.trout!

Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

it was at least two years ago. They pulled out a lot of the floating anchored buoys and replaced with fixed poles.

Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3974

what OFT II said, plus they have been sometimes using miscellaneous buoys to replace those that disappear in the past...they aren't all nice and pretty in order anymore...

and what's the big deal? you already knew that you were at the mouth of Baffin, or at Bird, correct? unless you were running blindly in the fog without GPS or radar, then the numbers really don't mean too much, I suppose...
becky
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Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 2:34 pm Post subject:

So in a nutshell, Marker 37 ain't marker "37" no more????

Cause if the rest of the numbering system got reset, ........... Cool

CaptPatrick · Pony Mullet Joined: 13 Oct 2010 Posts: 71

That's all the Army corps of engineers responsibility. Never paid much attention to the numbers and sure don't miss dodging those cans in the dark.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3974

Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

they have numbers?

yep. I've always seen the coast guard replacing the poles when the drunken tug boats crash a barge into them

Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3974

CaptPatrick · Pony Mullet Joined: 13 Oct 2010 Posts: 71

That's all the Army corps of engineers responsibility. Never paid much attention to the numbers and sure don't miss dodging those cans in the dark.
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CopanoCruisin · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 9:35 pm Post subject:

It is not the first time, back way back when, I can remember Bird Island Basin was marker 59. Although that was before there was a entrance that you had to pay at and the cut off road down to bird island wasn't even paved and when you got down close to the water it was just sand. I am sure in the future some bueracrat will justify spending more money and change them again.
Oh well !..........cC

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ironmanstan · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 5:10 pm Post subject:

My buddy Sal US Coastguard was aboard the tender that changed the marker numbers I'll see if I can get him to give an answer on here. He explained it all to me but in one ear and out the other.
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Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 8:31 am Post subject:

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