This is a picture of the 29 and 1/2 inch red that Daisy Lee caught in the mitigation site last week.


Here Daisy's son in law Frank Haring shows the 26 and 1/2 red caught the same day.
I keep referring to the mitigation site and I'm hearing that not everyone knows what I'm talking about. The mitigation site is the area of shallow water between the entrance road and the crosspier from the end of the 600 building to the boat ramp. It was developed as a protected area as required by the General Land Office when the bulkhead was built in 1985 behind the bayside condos. The permit to build the bulkhead required that since shoreline was being taken up by the construction of the bulkhead, new area had to be set aside and developed for fish habitat. We were even required to plant a given amount of Cordgrass and maintain the grass for aquatic species. That is the reason the "No Castnets" signs are posted.
There are two twelve inch pipes under the entrance road that allow interchange between the water in the mitigation site and the pond on HEB property to the north of the entrance road. Most times the pipes are not carrying water and seem blocked, but when enough hydraulic pressure is present, they open and flow freely. This flow seems to coincide with fish activity, as there is now, in the mitigation site.
I guess there is no restriction on fishing the mitigation site because game wardens frequent the area and voice no concern.