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On my way back to the coast from my turkey hunting grounds, I crossed the Tombigbee River at Jackson, AL, and it looked like the giant baby upstream got sick drinking chocolate milkshakes and somebody gave him an enema. The river is bank full of that nasty stuff, coming this way after all that rain. Sure hope it settles out in Mobile Bay. It figures---just when fishing is getting good, the water may turn nasty---I hope, I hope, I hope it doesn't, but hope is a fragile thing---easily crushed and quickly abandoned, leaving us to look through its broken shell at harsh and cruel reality.

Did I tell y'all I was reading philosophy books while waiting for the turkeys to show up?

Good luck this week Haywire. May your fishing adventures this week be filled with clear water and full coolers

Yea that figures that's my luck.I will be done this weekend and the water will probably still look like chocolate milk.so what's the chances it will be clear by then?

yeah Wire I swapped shift this week so I could prefish for a bass tourney here in Demopolis Saturday and wouldn't you know 5 inches of rain last night over most of central AL

Yeah I know the feeling I'm supposed to fish a little tourney is Herron Bay Saturday morning I'm sure it will be like fishing in a milkshake with all that extra mud that will be pushed into the bays.

We had 8 inches in central MS....lucky the culvert didn't wash out at camp...or I would be stuck there awhile.....more coming tonight...

Got nearly 7 inches near Sylacauga, Coosa River way up and rising. Guntersville was even flooded this morning at work, so that will be headed your way as well. Seems like every time I was down last year was about 3 days after heavy rain up here. Fishing DI, I would catch back up with it when I got there!

Rivers between here & Montgomery were already high last weekend. All this rain isn't going to help.
Only bright side is that with all this high waters, should be a hell of a crappie spawn this spring. And the grass beds on the northern end of the bay should do very well with the salt wedge pushed south.

Starting with the early excuses.
Haywire is back in town and the fishing looks to slow down
Is it the water or the fact that haywire is back
Coincidence..............or not

:)

Crossed it yesterday George and the shooting houses in the cotton fields only had a foot of post above water. I've seen it high during the rainy season but not this time of year.

And more rain is on the way----

a dusting of snow here tonight, was 80 yesterday, in the 70's now with almost a 50 degree drop expected .....time to bring in the garden plants

this is not gonna help...

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TONIGHT
SOUTH WINDS 15 TO 18 KNOTS BECOMING SOUTHWEST 17 TO 20 KNOTS AFTER MIDNIGHT...THEN BECOMING WEST 19 TO 24 KNOTS EARLY IN THE MORNING. SEAS 2 TO 4 FEET BUILDING TO 4 TO 6 FEET EARLY IN THE MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. TUESDAYNORTHWEST WINDS 22 TO 27 KNOTS DIMINISHING TO 19 TO24 KNOTS IN THE AFTERNOON. SEAS 5 TO 8 FEET. CHANCE OF SHOWERS ANDTHUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE DAY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON.

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Better hope the wind doesn't shift to the west any time in the extended period...
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that is darn right ugly water....looks like on lake up here with the mud bottom after hard rains and wind

pier#r is that google earth??? where do you find an up to date pic. like that?????

I 'borrow' it from the gubment ;-)
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How's the fishing on the pier now? I'm From Jackson, but spend my summers in foley. I've spent a lot of time on that pier and the fishing seems to be going downhill. 2 years ago, it was nothing to catch 50-60 SM in a day, (which is my personal favorite) thinking about driving down soon as possible just wondered what kinda of day to expect. Thanks

Fishing (catching) sure took a 'nosedive' this week when the wind swung to the southwest!
The water clarity 'went to hell' yesterday afternoon with a moderately strong W>E current.
NO spanish caught (that I saw) but heard of a few being seen.
And the netters were still after them just before sundown...

The water clarity should improve next week after the wind switches to NE then SE.
http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/fmtb.../gm/gmz650.txt
Plus the river levels are slowly receding which should allow the bays to begin to get salty.
Southeast River Forecast Center, National Weather Service

Hopefully by mid May things will be smackin at the pier again! ??

or not!
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