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Sight Caster · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:35 pm Post subject: Snook?

Anyone heard of any snook sightings or reports recently?
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rabbit · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:07 pm Post subject:

This is the only report i have seen lately regarding snook.

http://www.teamoso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3884
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Sight Caster · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:17 pm Post subject:

thanks for the info rabbit
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awesum · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:14 am Post subject:

Cold is the Snook's biggest nemisis. We've had a very mild winter so far and if we can get through these next 30 - 40 days without an extended hard freeze the Snook fishing should be good this year.

bobaloo1 · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:38 am Post subject:

Totally agree that cold and snook don't like each other....my question for the folks in the know is...why don't we see snook as we did in the 50's and 60's? The weather was basically colder back then and snook were everywhere...I mean, you could catch them off the old Humble Channel swing bridge almost anytime you went. Of course, back then every cut and channel was open to the gulf and big tarpon in CC Bay were also common (especially prior to 1960). What really happened to the snook...not enough fresh salt water or what? I've always wondered why they disappeared for years and are now on the comeback. Thanks for any education you can give me.

jbonorden · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:07 am Post subject: snook/tarpon

Check on the date that Wesley Seale Dam was completed. This effectively shut off the fresh water flow to the cc bay system. Now there are mandatory water releases. I think the limited re-appearance of snook is directly related to the freshwater releases.

As you noted, before the dam, all the passes you mentioned were open and the bay was deeper.

Big John · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject:

Largely, the snook and tarpon populations were way overfished. Look at all the old photos of people fishing. There are always lots of fish in htte pictures.

When I was really young (back in the 70's), I remember my grandpa, dad, and uncles sitting around talking about how all the tourist came in and kept too many fish and now there aren't any to catch.

Combine the large catches of fish with the blocking off all the passes, so that the water in the estuaries is not as vital, and you have a huge problem.

The increases in both catches of snook and tarpon are encouraging though, and we may yet see anoither day were you can catch tarpon and snook from the T-Heads.
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