I hope this has something to do with the opening of Cedar Bayou. Not only are the fish all over the marina and mitigation site, but this drum caught by the guest in 101 shows the drum are also in the bay behind the condos.
This morning an owner, I won't say who, took seven keeper trout out of the marina on split tail grubs. A bit more than the limit so he will remain unnamed. Below Jesse(wow he's getting tall)Westburg gives the mitigation site a try this afternoon. I think Jerry donated a split tail grub he was given to give Jesse a good chance at a trout too.

The fish feeding frenzy in the mitigation site continued yesterday. There were very few people here. Between showers I saw maybe six people fishing at one time at most. They were landing reds, trout, and drum with nearly every cast. I didn't get any pictures because everything was being returned to the water, even keepers. Mingo did keep one 25.5 inch red on Wednesday evening.

Today was pretty unique as far as fishing is concerned. Jerry sent me a text at 8am saying the mitigation pond was full of nice fish. I didn't feel real great, but I went out to see. It was amazing. The pond was literally boiling with big reds, trout, and drum. You could see oversized reds coming to the surface to grab terrified mullet. Jerry said the first cast he made yielded a big red that broke his steel leader. He had a 22 inch red on the stringer that had a girth as large as you will ever see on a 22 inch red. I told him I would rather have a trout. I went back out about noon and took Jerry a gold spoon and one of my rods. He came over a few minutes later with this 19.5 inch trout. Stories abound about who caught what today, but the bottom line is everyone had a great day fishing. Limits of reds and drum were taken and several large trout.
I took this trout to Alice Faye's and will have several more meals with what I brought back.

 Workers from D&C Fence came out Tuesday morning to deliver back the exit gate they had taken in last week. It had a bow in it that they had to work on at their shop. The gates are now officially completed. This all began last March 17th. It took awhile, but as of now everything is working perfectly. They are likely as happy as we are now that it is finally a finished job.

 Jerry has successfully modified the pier gate to allow more air to pass through rather than make the all wooden gate all but impossible to open when the wind was blowing at all. We had the gate tied open the last few months because it was unsafe to operate it with the forces it exerted on anyone trying to open it.

Jim caught this 27 inch red behind his condo the day after landing the 30 incher that I posted last week. Others fishing last week also caught a  few big reds and very large drum. Three of the drum measured 35, 41, and 44 inches long. They were all caught on dead shrimp. Most all perch have left the area and the dead shrimp will last on the hook until something big finds them.
I'm hearing that Cedar Bayou is not navigable unless you have an air boat or really shallow running boat. I'm hearing that it never was intended to be navigable. The only purpose was to be a fish pass and exchange water in the bays with the gulf. I had hoped to be able to reach almost to the gulf as in days of old.
I have enjoyed my Time Warner HD box with expanded channels. Last Saturday I could watch the football games on the SEC channel, Longhorn Network, and Fox Sports One. I didn't miss anything. I've heard from two winter Texans that they plan to have a box installed for their stay. There is no service contract so short term installations can be done. With all the extra channels it surely is worth the extra $20 per month. If the whole complex would subscribe, the cost would drop to only $8 per month. I would think that even summer guests might make their selection of condos based somewhat on the quality and quantity of channels available. I know I would choose a condo where I could watch baseball on the MLB channel. There are so many children's channels too.

I guess the black drum were not the only big fish roaming around behind our condos today. Jim(210) caught this 30 inch red at the new bright light at the corner of the bulkhead and breakwater. By the time he go it up, he was behind my condo. Just like my black drum earlier, this red drum hit a perch. After this picture, Jim released the red.

 I had to have some help with this one this afternoon. I couldn't stop it until we got down to about 102. I knew there was no way to just pull it up. A crowd had gathered while I was dueling with it. The young women in the yellow shirt volunteered to jump in. She asked how deep the water is and I told her about two and one half feet. She did jump right in and lifted it up to the guys.

The new owners of Alice Faye's will be renovating the building as well as the marina. This picture of today's dredge shows why fishermen get hung up when fishing the marina. It looks as if they will tear out all the piers and pilings and start all over.
Also Walmart is moving out the McDonald's there and a Subway will take it's place.

I contacted Time Warner Cable to come out today to connect a digital box for me. Look who showed up. It's Jamie who worked at the rental office for years. It was good to see her again and she really knew what she was doing.
The box will be about $20 per month, but from what I see, what took me so long? I can finally get the Longhorn channel, MLB Network, Smithsonian Channel, Fox Sports One, and about 100 more. Even all the On Demand channels are available. Now all I need a good recliner.