7/7/11 SWS

A little heads up, SWS,Spanish Bay beaches are posted as health hazards,High levels of bacteria found in samples taken on Tuesday.The beaches will be posted until new tests indicate water is safe for swimming or wading.
 It was in this mornings Monterey Herald.
 I went out yesterday not knowing any of this and had a great time out there.
 I got 1 underling,1 legal ling, my PB Cabbie, HUGE weight wise, 4 Olives over 20" 1 Vermillion,1 treefish,released and a couple brown rock cod. Parking was no problem but this weekend will be a mess with the golf tournament going on right there.

Nice mess of fish!!

 

Bacteria...yeah, I've fished and dove during those advisories and not had any real bad side effects! 

Congrats on a great day OTW!

 

Sincerely,

Jim

ps...is there a golf tournament again this weekend? 

The reds are definitely a bonus fish out there! Thanks for the report.
I wonder if the runoff from the golf course has anything with the negative water report?

they probly take there samples right there near the pier...with the calm water and runoff from that pipe , im sure that area stays nasty but im sureonce outside that brown water its just like anywhere else.

A couple of months ago, the SC Sentinel paper had an article about the poor water quality at Cowell's Beach in SC.  I'd always wondered why it was so bad there, and whether it was unsafe to be in the water further out in the cove (Though I'm pretty sure it is unsafe after the first big rains).  The story said that most of the pollution was from rotting seaweed, and that the reading is taken right at the west side of the wharf (in the winter, water from an inland lagoon empties there, so I could understand why there would be high poo levels at that time of the year), but the story said that the pollution level at the stairs around past the Dream Inn to the West was nowhere near as high as at the wharf.
   Stillwater, I suspect, suffers from the same rotting seaweed, no current to mix it out problem , and you can often see how murky the water is for some distance out, then it is clear as can be.  An arm of the Monterey deep canyon goes into Carmel Bay, and can't be more than a mile or so from Pescadero Pt., so I doubt that the water is seriously polluted in that area. 
   At least in Santa Cruz, the water samplers are volunteers -so who knows what their agendas might be?

Have them do some samples at SWS by the stairs there by the golf course runoff 

I swam cowell's saturday AM and now have a very mild sinus infection.  No warning (other than the general "is a dirty beach" warning).  In fact, I asked one of the lifeguards in the HQ on the wharf about bacteria and he said not to worry LOL

Probably just coincidental illness.

I was there Monday and actually saw the sample being taken right by the pier below the steps just a couple of feet from the freshwater.  Talked to the guy and he said that Stillwater always has higher counts because of the still water.  Did not get into much else because we were offloading and couldn't remain there.

This is a concern of mine. With all the bacteria in the water is the fish safe to eat?

This is a concern of mine. With all the bacteria in the water is the fish safe to eat?

If you gift me a ling, I'll happily take it for a test drive for you LOLz

Yes , it's  OK to eat the fish, just don't drink the water !!!