Question about the water in Big Lake.

[Afishionado]

Fished the lake on Friday. Had read reports about the only decent water being on the South side of the lake, so we decided to try the flats off of the ship channel for the early morning. Threw topwater in a couple different spots along the channel with no luck. Decided to run Oyster Bayou to West Cove to try for flounder and found better water there. This isn't the first time I've seen this.

My question is how and why does West Cove sometimes have better water than the ship channel? I know it's very shallow, but how can the water clarity be better there than the water coming in from the Gulf? Please educate me.

[PaulMyers]

Depending on tide and rainfall, water coming down the river/channel can be very bad, this water would also bypass west cove.

[Afishionado]

Sounds feasible.

[leafus]

I agree with Paul.
Also, all of the marsh near oyster bayou and west cove filters rainwater runoff better than the river. There's no agriculture in that flood basin, so all the dirty water either comes from wave churning in west cove/big lake, or agriculture/construction silt in the ship channel.

[Afishionado]

Thanks.