Thread: June Grass Questions

I just moved down last year and so am just beginning to learn a lot of details about the Gulf.

I know the June Grass is just getting started, but I'm wondering if it is more of a near shore problem. I've been to the Trolling Corridor when it was thick so I know it extends that far out at times, but I'm wondering if it thins out within about 20 miles (about as far as my wife like to go in a small boat).

Can the head boats get past it easily on a short trip?

When it's thick it can pretty much dictate fishing tactics.

Also, I know it thins a little by August, but if anybody has any more insights into the general pattern I would appreciate it.

Don't confuse "June grass" (beach algae) with sargassum grass (floating) or other freshwater plants like hyacinth that float out of the marshes.
True "June grass" is more of a Florida panhandle phenomenon and though we have some along the Alabama beaches it isn't usually here for long.
But there can be some 'stubborn' brown algae blooms along our beaches that can interfere or even disrupt surf fishing.

Thanks. I am aware that June Grass is algae, but I have been out at the Trolling Corridor when it was impossible to troll in June and it was definitely not Sargassum, nor was it all at the surface. It was pretty stringy, so maybe something other than algae, but it didn't have leaves like the hyacinth I am accustomed to.

All depends on currents, eddies, winds, etc... No way to really predict when it will be clear offshore or not. And you may go five miles one way or the other and find completely different conditions.