We were looking at hauling in more sand to replenish the beach, but we decided we could just rearrange what we have and level it off. Jack brought out his bobcat and pushed some sand around.

 The newly disturbed sand was too much for the golfcart to navigate and it bogged down and got stuck. These three guys worked a while before they got it back on more solid ground.

The finished product looks good. In previous summers we lost a lot of sand as it washed into the channel at the south end of the beach.  The spillway has nearly stopped all of this and by redistributing the sand we have avoided another $1,000 refill of sand. I'm sure Jack's charges will be much less than that.

Jack Gibbs and JR survey the concrete wall to try to determine the best way to repair it. It looks as if about 30 feet of the cap will have to be replaced. The rebar inside rusts and expands and then splits the concrete. Eventually, parts of the cap fall into the water.

Yesterday, word began to spread about all the reds in the pond. Vehicles were parked along the road and many fished from the crossbridge. I saw one Phase II guest fish from the road and catch seven upper slot sized reds just in the afternoon alone. He caught them all on lures. The tide is still high, but falling with the north wind today.

 Tony is working in 209 this week. He is replacing the bifold doors with regular doors. The bifold doors are difficult to keep on the pivots and these hinges work much better. He will  be working in 205 next doing the same thing. It turns out that the opening for the bifold doors is only 47 inches, so he had to take off one-half inch on each of these 24 inch doors.

Work continues on the back of the 100 building. They just about finished 107 and 108 today. Two more are left at the other end of the building.

 I think Jerry, maintenance, got hooked on fishing today. Last night about midnight I threw my castnet into the boat ramp. I caught 11 finger mullet and 1 perch on the first and only throw. This morning I went out to try them. Several people were already fishing in the mitigation site with great success. Right away I caught a red too. I came back into the house to fillet that red and Jerry watched the two poles I had set out. Soon he was at my door to show me this oversized red. I didn't want that big thing so he gave it to someone else. A few minutes later he called that he had another one. I think in all he caught about 7 and lost several more. I kept two. With everyone else fishing out there I didn't get an exact count, but I know at least 20 keepers were caught. This evening I threw the castnet again, but the boat ramp was totally full of jellyfish. I did nab the fish below. I'm not sure if it is a triple tail or an angel fish.

 The high tides and high winds have made our beach look like part of the bay.

 The short torrential downpours bent the palm trees and rain looked as if were mostly horizontal.

 Looking out the back door the bay looks turbulent and threatening.

Interestingly, the unusual direction and velocity of the wind have created a large deposit of shell next to our new bulkhead.  That's a lot of shell to move in a short amount of time.
The rising tide has brought more reds into the mitigation site. The guests in 307 caught 4 keepers on Saturday and the guests in 304 picked up two today between storms.

 Mike(502) had a pretty good day on the water. I gave him some help with cleaning the flounder and one of them ended up with me at Alice Faye's. Pretty tasty and I have enough left for lunch tomorrow. Thanks Mike.

 JR arranged for some of our tallest palm trees to be trimmed. This top photo on Saturday shows pretty nice weather. They came back this morning when the winds were up. JR came by and asked them to stop until the wind conditions improved. This is one tough job. There are all kinds of critters in the top of those trees and it's a long way to the ground. Notice the one small rope holding the ladder.

Fishing in Alaska seems to be much better than the fishing locally. Pat(602) sent these photos and comments. They are back in Colorado now.

Sibyl and I went back to Alaska and the fishing was excellent.  Sibyl
actually caught a salmon on her back cast fly fishing on a stream.  I have
heard that this may have been a record year for the harvest of salmon in
Alaska.

I have attached a couple of pics.  The fish Sibyl is holding is called a
Yellow Eye.  You are limited to one per person per year.

 This was a new first for me. I caught this Sheepshead on the lure that can be seen in its mouth. I don't know that I have ever seen one caught on anything but live shrimp. This one was under the light where the bulkhead meets the breakwater. It was 14 inches, but it didn't matter, I wouldn't try to fillet one of these things anyway. Those spines are downright dangerous.
Boat owners who are used to taking their boats to the The Boat Shop and having Ben repair them, will have to look elsewhere. Ben has officially closed his boat shop and is dealing only in firearms now. I guess it was a matter of economics. Also, Ben is only two months younger than I am and dealing firearms is likely a lot easier on him.

Jerry and JR were out early Saturday morning measuring the pier for the permit renewal. We are looking at adding five new turnouts for fishing and three new lights.  Allowing the new development folks to use the pier will mean more use and the extra accommodations should help.

For a change there were some fish under the pier lights last night. I never got a keeper anything, but it was fun to finally catch something. In the 20 minutes I fished, I did catch 5 different species. The first pair was a double speck on top and a gafftop on the bottom jig.

 Then this sand trout came by. I caught two of these.

 Later this pompano decided he was hungry for plastic.

Then this thing took the bait. I have no idea what it is. The coloring looked somewhat like a croaker, but the shape was all wrong. Does anyone know what this is?

 Work began this week to remove the stucco and rotted plywood and studs on the back of the 100 building. We anticipate the total project can be done for about $6,000. The stucco was slagging off the plywood because there was nothing to hold it up. The stucco is being replaced with hardiplank.

 This type of rot can be found behind nearly all the stucco.

ProBuild delivered a load of material to begin repairs.

This big drum was caught on the end of the pier on Saturday evening. He used a crab for bait. I would not have kept it, but he was pretty proud of his catch and filleted it and the left over fish floated into the boatramp today and the turkey vultures dined all day.

I've tried the pier the last few evenings with the best lures I know and still nothing doing at all.

I got this note from David Schneider(205). Let me know if anyone is interested. The price is right.
I am replacing my condo's sleeper and loveseat.  The sleeper trampoline needs repair and the arms on the loveseat could use a cleaning.  Would you please let folks know in your blog.  If they are interested it is is their's for free to pick up.  If no one is interested I will donate it to charity.