I’ll still a noob here, so always looking to get educated. There’s an algae-looking growth on top of the pluff mud. Halfway thru the outgoing, I see some tailing and chunks of the algae floating up. It’s at the end of my range, but toss slim shadies, paddle tails etc. Not a nibble. Plenty of finger mullet schooled up and not getting bothered. What are the reds feeding on? @barbawang?
Good question, if they were feeding it sounds like it must have been small stuff. There are bristleworms in the mud, but I kind of doubt they’d be rooting for those.
Best guesses would be:
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Mud snails are spawning all over, if you pick up some of the stringy or hairlike algae off a mud flat these days, it’s probably covered in thousands of their tiny adhesive eggs, which look a little spiky on the outside if you squint real hard
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postlarval spot and mullet are in the estuaries after having been born a month or two ago, if you see a school of 1/2” long shimmery things near the surface, that’s the young of year mullet crop. Some of the baby fish might be hiding in the algae, causing the reds to break it up looking for morsels
Metabolism is of course directly proportional to body temperature for endotherms, and at 60 they still don’t need a whole lot of energy… but that’s all about to change in the next couple weeks!
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And grass shrimp are a good possibility too I guess
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