Fire near Chocolate??

[WestEndAngler]

Is it the refinery?

[WestEndAngler]

Fire near Chocolate??

Well sun came up it looks like smoke

[dbarham]

Re: Fire near Chocolate??

Looks like salt grass

[Ibtsoom]

Parks dep has been burning down there on North wind days.

[Xpress89]

Yea, that ain't no flare that's grass burning.

[Gulfcoast13]

grass burning. You could smell it out there yesterday, but could not see anything burning. Guess they really got it going today.

[Rollo]

That marsh is dry I bet it burned pretty good! noticed most of greens is dead now we need rain bad!

[WestEndAngler]

Yeah my blind now needs more brown in it LOL.

[TroutSupport]

yes. the burn brazzoria wildlife refuge and all the refuges this time of year to provide the geese with short tender grass shoots to eat... something they'll eat later in the season after they run through the rice feilds. I just hope it kills a million mosquitos!

[trseato]

Here is a photo I shot a while back from the island near San Luis looking back towards Chocolate. We had a lot of smoke in Houston one day last week so the wind must have switched on them.

[Walker]

I was wondering about the salt grass fires. While we were flying back to Houston form Baton Rouge last Sunday (had to go see the Tigers beat Ole Miss), we flew over the marshes between Lake Calcasieu and Houston. There were lots of fires in the marshes, and lots of smoke in the air. The fires were very far from anywhere reachable by anything other than boat, so it looked like they were deliberately set. We just could not figure out why. Now it makes sense.

[aqua pimp]

Fished West yesterday. They have been doing several controlled burns around Chocolate and along the north shoreline of east. Yesterday they were burning a section right up next to the ICW about 6 miles west of Greens Cut. Couldn't fish one of the areas I like because of the thick smoke.

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