[MadMike]

will the storm kill the grass in maty/p. ocon.? if so will it screw up duck season for awhile? just curious what everyone thinks. and do you think my hogs in the marsh will survive so i can kill them?

 

[pirogue man]

The surge will put salt water into all of the reshwater ponds and marshes along the upper and middle Texas coast killing all of the freshwater plant life. TS Francis did that back several years back and it took a coupe of years for the marshes to recover. It will hurt a lot of the coastal hunting.

 

[wet dreams]

It will free up lots of area lost to water hyacinth, natures way of flushing the marsh...WW

 

[MackerelMan]

Will have a major negative impact

After Claudette's storm surge 5 years ago the ducks were pretty much non-existant along the affected coast for the entire year. It will recover quickly if we get lots of rains next summer, but don't expect any decent hunting this fall. Remember how fantanstic our hunting was after Katrina/Rita, all those ducks that used east Texas and Louisianna coastal marshes were all over here. This year our ducks will be in Port Aransas or further south.

 

[Masked Duck]

AvianQuest over at World Waterfowl is in the wildlife habitat business and can give you a report on that.

www.worldwaterfowl.com

 

[chad]

I noticed yesterday that the marsh grass is turning brown between Rockport and Aransas Pass. There are even some small oak trees dieing on the West side of business 35 from the salt water encroachment.