Well, it could have been a lot worse in the low country, I’m thankful that it wasn’t.
Not so much in the old North State.
This video is hard to watch but holds a lot of good information, ,but like I said, it could have been a lot worse on @Optiker and the 20 inche breaders, not to mention the shrimp 
, so there’s that
Until next stun lets be listening in…
EF
I feel it in my gut!
HaltySalty does a lot of good stuff. He’s a great stick and proponent of Release Over 20.
Latest data showing a nice recovery.
Fished with Capt Stephen Flook yesterday north of town and had a great day. 30 Redfish (I tagged 25) and I caught 1 trout 
We came across a redfish around 20" that looked to be dead. I poked it with a net and it shot off (!) #notdead Well, it may very well die but not yet. I thought that was interesting. Water was 43 F in this particular spot but we saw temps as high as 50 F in the ditches.
Thanks for the follow ups 
Ive been known to forget that the pot is in the water. Pulled it yesterday to find two keeper trout in it. There’s at least two trout swimming around as of yesterday. I was surprised they were alive, but they flopped in and swam off strong.
Just to tie this in a bow. Here’s the final result of the freeze of January '25. We’re back in the 50’s and seem to have avoided a significant fish kill this time thankfully!
Good work sir, I will be sure and mention your efforts in my report. You are in line for a big promotion and raise.
Seriously, good work. Thanks
This was a good read, looking forward to the 2026 data.
Kinda
Will update. Water currently ~48F using the same sensor as the rest of this data. Sat/Sun is concerning.
Thanks EF for encouraging this. This actually makes me feel a little better. As you can see, by this time of year the temps are usually beginning to head back upward. So hopefully if we can get through this weekend and get a warming trend (hopefully) we may be past it? That being said, purple is last year, and we definitely had a trout kill to some extent. I expect our trend to look like last year given how cold it will be this weekend.
We seem to have cold winters on a 7 -10 year cycle. The data don’t lie!
Below 45 for at least 5 days is the metabolic distillation from many studies around here. For specks and white shrimp, that is.
After the blizzard of ‘26, it does look like a tiny “warming” trend into weds next, and my predecessor swore that the fish were more acclimated to bad lows by the end of the winter instead of right off the bat when it had been “warm”
Stocked on groceries and standing by…
You better be stocked up son
A lot are depending on you
Unlike me
But I remember them days
