Smiling JOe said:
We were down last weekend and the dredging at Eastern Lake outflow is a thing of beauty!!! We would all rather have Mother Nature do her thing but the county has done a fine job moving the outflow back to the East since Ivan, Arlene, Cindy and Dennis have pushed it to the west and jeopardized some homes on the corner there at Gulf Drive.
This outflow is not open and flowing well between the lake and the gulf and the kids are having a ball skimboarding on the beach where it dumps into the gulf. Fishing is also good on either end of the outflow and we found live shrimp, crabs, crawfish, and minnows aplenty. We were told by 3 young boys that if you go to were the outflow dumps into the gulf and throw a castnet, you can/will catch "shiner" minnows and then go to the lake and use a slip rig at dusk and catch some of what folks were calling "mango" Snappers and Reds. :clap_1: