This is what guide, Brent Hopkins, recently said about the local fishing. I think he has it right, but I hope it doesn't take too long for things to return to normal. Usually guides are overly optimistic. When they say its been "grind" they mean the average angler is not going to catch much of anything.

Just before the hurricane we had an incredible prolonged incoming tide which turned the fish on and made them really bite. Limits were easy with those kind of conditions just before the storm, but since the storm it's been a real grind. We had such a high tide due to the storm that afterwards it was hard to find a good concentration of fish. The fish & bait were so scattered because we had so much water for them to roam in. It took nearly a week to lose some of that water, but just when I thought things were going to get back to normal, we had conditions for another round of astronomically high tides. Don't that beat all? The off-shore flow brought in another very high tide and kept us on it for at least a week. Again we had to battle the high tide conditions. Even the bay shrimpers have been having a big problem with finding enough bait to stock the bait stands. But now the tides and water levels are just beginning to get to a normal level again and I believe our "catching" should pick up for the next couple of months or so once things get back to normal.