Impact from "Idalia"

We are coming into the most active weeks of the Atlantic Hurricane Season as proved by the rapid development of "Idalia" into a tropical storm.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at...start#contents

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graph...e_and_wind.png

It looks like our biggest impact will be large long period swells Wednesday, as the hurricane parallels the Florida Peninsula...
https://marine.weather.gov/MapClick....0#.V8VxuJgrLcv

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Wednesday

North winds 10 to 15 knots with gusts up to 25 knots. Seas 5 to 7 feet, building to 6 to 9 feet in the afternoon. Dominant wave period 12 seconds.

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Strengthened overnight quite a bit. Now they’re saying major hurricane at landfall likely.

I doan bleev innit-none of it!😂

Few Spanish sheep head couple of trout and small mangrove-that’s what my first thoughts were when I woke up this morning It’s hard to quit dude Remembering Mitch’s location looking at Idalia- that was an incredible head high swell at the old pier from way down there !! I told Pat Wednesday night Tampa 125- just sayin

Son is a lineman for comcast and he is on the storm team, he is prepping to leave out Wednesday

I hope he stays safe.

⛑Fujiwhara- run!!!

Just talked to Miku over in Appalachicola He said people are tripping They had a little push already He said folks are fleeing!!

Supposed to come ashore as a 4, son went to Agusta Ga with a load of 60 generators yesterday, hope it misses them as it passes by. hate mother nature sometimes

It's probably insensitive for me to bring it up, but I well remember the time, back in the last century, when a hurricane went in at the Big Bend area and sent a zillion grouper over here. We caught them until it was a shame. I caught two ten pounders in my bait trap in Terry Cove where they'd forced their way in after the baitfish. People were filling their boxes with grouper at the jetties at Perdido Pass. No limits back then. The price of grouper plummeted. It was quite a couple of days.

The three mile barge was covered up with grouper. They would follow a hooked fish to the surface. My brothers and I almost sunk our 14 ft B-Craft with a load of them when we crossed a small boat wake coming back in the pass.

Elena 85 Hollis banned light tackle on the second day of the run😂

I was thinking we may get a surge of fish here like grouper or bluefish, my son-in-law in Charleston sent me a photo of his 16# bluefish and says the ones he caught here are just "bait".

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Originally Posted by Haywire

It's probably insensitive for me to bring it up, but I well remember the time, back in the last century, when a hurricane went in at the Big Bend area and sent a zillion grouper over here. We caught them until it was a shame. I caught two ten pounders in my bait trap in Terry Cove where they'd forced their way in after the baitfish. People were filling their boxes with grouper at the jetties at Perdido Pass. No limits back then. The price of grouper plummeted. It was quite a couple of days.

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Originally Posted by Haywire

It's probably insensitive for me to bring it up, but I well remember the time, back in the last century, when a hurricane went in at the Big Bend area and sent a zillion grouper over here. We caught them until it was a shame. I caught two ten pounders in my bait trap in Terry Cove where they'd forced their way in after the baitfish. People were filling their boxes with grouper at the jetties at Perdido Pass. No limits back then. The price of grouper plummeted. It was quite a couple of days.

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I remember some being caught off the old pier because of a hurricane but I can’t tell you what year or the name of the storm.

Doesn’t look too bad- bit of a beach washer I could sense the trout underneath the pier two light posts back from the t! Spillway looks like a class 4 rapids November 1st they’re sayin