Geotube lake

[Safari6]

Does any one know what the Geotube lake is? and used for. Just curious

[Robalo]

Geotubes are socks filled with sand set by the COE and TPWD to provide a barrier against erosion. Go to google earth and look around G.I.State park. They can be underwater on a high tide and unless you are Coe running his gator-tail boat, it will rip off your lower unit and maybe sink your boat. I never heard of Geotube lake. No such thing as far as I know.

[buoy37]

There are two in Chocolate. One in the upper bay and one in the lower.

[WestEndAngler]

Does any one know what the Geotube lake is? and used for. Just curious

Probably a later dredge disposal site...

[Robalo]

There are two in Chocolate. One in the upper bay and one in the lower.

I guess you could call those "Geotube Lakes"-IMO, they are spill sites or reclamation sites. But WTF do I know opther than there are NFIC.

[WestEndAngler]

Here is one of the "lakes" you are talking about... The geotube lake as you call it is actually an area enclosed by geotubes as you go up Chocolate Bayou. As mentioned there are 2 of them. Yes they are marked on aerials & on the new updates Post Ike Chocolate Map.

[Safari6]

Someone told be that the lower by the inter-costal one holds some fish in it. Is it true?

[Robalo]

There is a common saying used here often-there are no fish in Chocolate. But I personally think that saying relates to Hershey Bars.

Pretty shallow over there by the southernmost set of tubes-and yes, fish prolly move in and out, but I guarantee there are better spots to fish than inside that pen area.

[Muddskipper]

These were created to out the dredge material in....eventually they will be planted with sea grass and the geo tubes will be removed

putting the material in them is good compared to what the did further east to east bay

To adress your question about thre being fish inside them- at first I found reds would travel in them ... but they kept pumpling material/ silt in them and they became to shallow to get a boat in them ... these are shallow pits of soft mud .... fish the spots on out going tide where the water is coming out of them ....

in my opinion the one closer in along the new edges has great potential in the future for fish habitate (sp?)

[buoy37]

No fish in them.....just birds pecking around in the mud

[reeltime]

I dare you to walk across it!

[Gulfcoast13]

X2.

[el gallo]

I burned the one nearest the bridge before they closed it off again. lol Sorry to say that both of them ruined some good fishing areas. Peeode me when I saw them being built years ago. I wonder where the next ones will be built. OH ya, you better believe there will be others!

[WestEndAngler]

I dare you to walk across it!

Already lost one member to that area Chris! That's the potlicker grave yard over there

[Bubbaette]

I went over to the one by the ICW (lower Chocolate) end of last year and it looked like it was gone. Did I just miss it -- is it still there?