Caught my first barracuda today...in Stoney Bayou!

[woopty]

Seen some absolute bruisers not far offshore here.
Bigger and meaner looking than cudas I've seen in the keys.

[MudDucker]

Judging by the temp change this morning, we are experiencing our 4th climate change of the year this morning.

I suspect it has to do more with rising salinity due to lack of rain, but I only stayed in a Holiday Inn Express earlier this year.

[silverking]

Uh huh. That's probably why the numbers of snook, a cold-sensitive and brackish-tolerant species, are growing around here.

[GaryDroze]

As a SMNWR paddler since the late 1980s, who also drags my kayaks & canoes through low water, I literally feel the bay and creek water temps on almost every outing. I cannot remember the water temp in general ever being as warm in fall/winter as it has the last three years (when I started encountering snook for the first time up here).