Surfside Skunk

[mallardslayer77]

Saw the wind was going to lay down so I hauled my butt from Katy to Surfside this morning at the crack. Pretty flat surf at first light, but VERY dirty. I've seen it much worse, but it was just dirty enough that nothing was biting. I still have a lot to learn on which wind dirties up the surf.

Does anyone have eyes-on the surf this afternoon? Is it cleaning up any? I tried looking on surfhouse surfcam, but I can't tell much as far as water color. I'm seriously considering playing hooky from work tomorrow to go back at it....if I knew it had/would clean-up enough by then. Any info?

[KennyWayne]

I went this morning to W Galveston and saw it dirty too, so I hot footed it to the ferry and rode across to try the Pocket. Waves were calm and the water was better, but no bait or fish was in the water. Around 9:00 I saw the clouds rolling in so I called it for a lazy day of watching Golf, Astos & hockey. At least I only have 50 miles to drive for a skunk.

[shutout]

The surfside area suffered a severe storm this morning. When I got there around 11 I was amazed at how muddy everything was (for the past 2 weeks, even though the surf has been rough the water color has been holding pretty good). At 2:45 I drove over the Quintana Bridge to re-con Bryan Beach. At that time it was pure chocolate milk. Left from there and headed to San Luis Pass which still had fishable water even earlier in the morning when everything else looked so nasty. By 8 this evening the surf for the length of Follet's Island had cleared all the way to the third gut. With little or no wind tonight, it should be green to the beach by first light tomorrow.

[Jhua]

Water was cleaning up nicely at around 6pm.

[Moonpie]

General rule for Surfside wind conditions/directions:

A true SE(straight onshore) wind is the best. It brings in clean offshore water. Any wind from ESE down to SSE is okay.

South over to NW is bad. A SW wind is the suck. A SW wind in Surfside will muddy up the bathtub. Winds from south over to NW cause he beach currents to bring mud water up from the Sargent beach area.

North over to east is bad if the wind is above 5or6. A hard NE is as bad as SW. A hard NW over to NE blows the water out and there will be very low water levels in normal areas. This is common during winter months.

Of course extreme wind from ANY direction can muddy up things.