I was sitting on one of my favorite ship channel holes fishing today after coming in from offshore and as I was sitting there some guy pulls up in one of those aluminum cabin boats and tells me he and the other similar boat are working for the coast guard checkiing boats coming in from offshore for signs of oil. He told me that since I did not stop when flagged down by his buddy that he was going to take my boat numbers and report me to the coast guard as being non-compliant! So I told him to go ahead and I did not care who he was and all I know is that he was right on top of the reef I was fishing and to get the hell out of the way.
This guy had no official marking on his boat and got nervous when I stood up to him. By the way I saw their two boats on the west side of the jetties when I reentered from the gulf but never saw one flag me down. One was following me up the channel but I thought he was hanging close to me since I was chopping down the waves for his flatbottom aluminum boat.