Heading to Destin at the end of June and wanted to see if anyone could recommend an inshore fishing guide. I've read some reviews on a couple of guides with horror stories from customers and don't want that to be me. Thanks.
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Heading to Destin at the end of June and wanted to see if anyone could recommend an inshore fishing guide. I've read some reviews on a couple of guides with horror stories from customers and don't want that to be me. Thanks.
[QUOTE=boskeet;546785]Heading to Destin at the end of June and wanted to see if anyone could recommend an inshore fishing guide. I've read some reviews on a couple of guides with horror stories from customers and don't want that to be me. Thanks.[/QUOTE]
My neighbors just got back from Destin Florida after a week down there. She told me that they had all kinds of dead fish washing up on the beach. I said it was from the oil that spilled from the Gulf a few years back. That oil sank and sits on the bottom of the gulf and it's being absorbed into the food chain. It must still be killing the fish. A lot of money was spent on commercials trying to make everyone think that the gulf coast has fully recovered from the oil spill but evidently that's not true. I would avoid that area if I were taking a vacation. Sorry for those that live down there and make a living off the ocean but it still has a lot of fish dying and washing up on the beach. That's disgusting.
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Most of the oil that leaked out of the deep water horizon blown out oil well on the ocean floor is still sitting on the ocean floor. It doesn't just go away.
If this was a low oxygen thing then many other fish species would have died. With the currents in the ocean the oxygen levels don't normally get low enough to kill that many fish of one species. It's probably some sort of disease that's spread though out this one species. But I'd still bet that the root cause of this fish kill is coming from the oil that still out there on the bottom of the gulf of Mexico. Everyone knows that oil contains lots of toxic organic compounds. And they can get into the food chain starting with the smallest of creatures that can bio accumulate the toxic materials up higher in the food chain. With each additional larger animal going up the food chain the toxin are concentrated more and more.
I'd bet big money that the Florida Area Chamber of commerce people who's job it is to bring tourist and money to that area are not happy with the fish kill or the oil spill and it's continuing results and like the movie JAWS will try to deflect any mention of that oil spill which could turn off tourist. But I know that my neighbors had a bad experience at the Beach in Destin Florida. Who wants to go lay out or swim in waters filled with dead fish? Not me. Maybe that area needs more time to fully recover from the disaster of the oil spill. Things living in and on the ocean bottom are still being effected by that oil is my guess.