This weekend I went back home to Beaumont and it was rather beaten up there from the hurricane. An interesting thing that happened there was the ditches in the suburban neighborhoods had a large amount of fish in them swimming. The high winds and waters had pushed the mullet from the gulf of mexico and catfish, carp, and bass from nearby lakes and ponds. There were hundreds of catfish about a foot long swimming together in the 1 foot deep water. Carp over a foot long were swimming around struggling to room to swim.
I got a castnet and caught hundreds of the fish. I threw them all back since they were probably unsanitary due to hurricane waters and things in the ditch. Overall it was a rare sight that I will most likely not ever see again. That was one of the biggest things I remember from this weekend.
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