Dead Dolphins

No, I'm a native of South Walton, and have fished in the bay, and surrounding areas all my life. It is distressing to me that the bay has problems, and very little seems to be done about it.

this morning St Andrews Bay smelled like a dead animal on the side of road - i don't like the looks of things either - not nearly enough baby fish or shrimp in the bay, no huge bait balls to speak of like last May - i was talking to some folks from PCML yesterday and they pretty much as said that the red tide never went away in the bay and the flippers that have died had upper respiratory infections like most of us have had this year - could possibly be from hurricanes last year, so nobody is sure

of all the problems noted in st andrews bay (possibly the same for choctowatchee bay) the eelgrass and turtle grass being covered with fuzz is probably the most alarming - i can't ever remember seeing it this thick before

however, on the up side, there were plenty of live happy dolphins playing around the boat last evening (with babies), they were even pulling off hooked fish in the pass, and big redfish were all over the rocks, so it may be just a natural recovery process at work