Our trash bin (Roll Off) is located at the Port O’Connor Improvement District’s Wastewater Plant. The Roll Off will be at this location October 6. The Next time for the Roll Off will be December 1. Please bring your water bill to show proof of residence.

Lester Construction will continue to work on upgrading our water lines, if the weather permits. These areas will be Tyler St. to Monroe Ave on 2nd St. through the month of September. We would like to ask for your patience during this time. While there will be water disruption and we will be on top of putting out alerts to let you know when water will be turned off. Please note to receive an alert in regard to POCID activities, please sign up at our website pocid.org.

We are also asking customer to make it easier in finding your home when having sewer issues or meter readings that if possible to put the house numbers visible on the outside of your home. We have recently welcomed new employees from out of town and it would be very helpful.

POCID would like to remind customers about having a back flow preventer on your property.

Backflow Preventer is a device that’s installed on your home’s water pipes that allows water to flow in one direction but never in the opposite direction. Its sole job is to prevent drinking water from being contaminated due to backflow. When water enters your home from the main water supply line, it should only ever flow in one direction: into your home, But sometimes, due to pressure changes in the pipes, that water can actually flow backwards and seep back into the main water supply line. For example, backflow can happen when there’s a break in the main water line or when a fire hydrant is opened for use. Because pressure is lost during these events, water is no longer being pushed forward into your home and will flow backwards into the system.

The district has a policy that states:

Section 7. 2—Backflow Prevention devices

No water service connection shall be made to any premises where a potential or actual contamination hazard exists unless the District water supply is protected in accordance with TCEQ Rules and Regulations for Public Water Sytems and the District’s Rules and Regulations. Service of water to any premises shall be discontinued by the District if a backflow preventer assembly required and approved by the District is not installed, tested and maintained or if it found that a backflow preventer device has been removed or by passed, or if an unprotected cross connection exists on the premises. Fines will be imposed and services will be disconnected until such conditions and defects are corrected.

Thank you, POCID

The Christiansen Family knows the importance of raising their children in the Outdoors. – Capt. Jeff Larson

August was a Hot One for sure! The Fishing and the Weather are what I’m talking about. The 1st week of September was also stifling hot until all the rains came and made it Muggy! With all the rain it has become so much cooler but these Darn Mosquitoes about carry me off every time I launch the boat. You know it’s bad when Skeeters are flying around during the middle of the day. Heck I took a deep breath and swallowed one so BIG it about choked me to death. Mosquitoes Suck!

September is a unique month because it’s the beginning of everything that makes Texas so Great! Fishing remains fantastic. Hunting blasts off! Dove Season! Teal Season! Gators! Bow Season! Plus Football kicks off! Everyone still loves Football, Don’t They? High School and College, for sure! NFL, Well!?!?, that’s a personal preference sorta like whether you use live bait or not, lol.

We have had several good Cast and Blast Days between thunder storms. Redfish have been plentiful along with Trout and Black Drum. Dove hunting has been pretty good in local grain fields. Captain Ron Elkins and I took a few days off to run up to Hondo, Texas to meet my buddy JC. JC has been putting hunters on Doves in the fields surrounding Hondo for over a decade. As the weather would have it, we made a great evening hunt right outside of town. The White Winged Dove were flying out of the sunflower fields by the hundreds. They were flying fairly high so high brass loads were in order. Of course, I went with the economical shells that required a direct hit. Needless to say, my shooting was less than amateur with a bunch of birds needing a good neck wringing. It took Dang Near 4 boxes to get the 15th bird in the bag. Capt. Ron had a much better bird to shell ratio. So it was off to Wally World for some high brass 5’s. The next morning was a wash out until the afternoon when the sun poked out for us to get onto the nicely groomed parking lot. It wasn’t long before the white wings were buzzing back to town. The hotter loads and bigger shot size was the ticket for getting the Texas Limit before Sunset. The final morning was met with no rain so Ron, JC and I went for a quick shoot before we had to come back to the Coast. It took a couple hours to get a limit between us and we headed south to get ready for some charters that were coming up on the books.

September is setting up to be the RAINIEST month of the year. It might even be a rainfall record.

Yesterday was yet another rainy day with a break in the afternoon so we put a quick scout trip together. Captains Doug McClung, Doug Berry, his son, Airplane Captain JR and I piled into JR’s Gulf Coast and headed east from POC. It was a classic, “shoulda been here yesterday” scenario. All kidding aside, We poked a few trout and reds in 2 spots then headed back to the dock. It’s always a great fishing trip when we have a day off to team up with one another to go scout and check on new real estate.

We had a Great Month Hunting and Fishing. Come get you some!! Billy Rhyne is at the Helm of Booking. Give him a call at: 713-907-4796.

Should be a Great Fall! Get you some Mosquito Spray, Fogger and a bug suit. Captain Jeff Larson 281-217-0399

“A Worthy Opponent”
Bay Flats Lodge

We made it through June and July this year without being scorched to death, but the sun Gods really strapped it to us in August.  We didn’t have much precipitation to speak of, and bay water temperatures almost matched that of the air temperature around here.  But if there is any truth to the old adage that history does repeat itself, then September should begin to show us a cooling trend toward the later part of the month.  That’s right, September marks the month on the Texas coastal calendar when Mother Nature finally considers turning down the heat in her summertime oven.

We’ll look this month for the Coastal Bend region of Texas to receive this year’s first notable cool front that should, in turn, provide some badly needed rainfall across the state, and to drop daytime coastal temperatures down into the 80’s.  Even if it’s not for but a very brief few days, it will be greatly appreciated by all.  We should also be able to anticipate some cooler water temperatures and less sunshine as a result of a possible increase in cloud cover.

In addition to a cooling climate, another transition also begins taking place this month.  It is in September that we routinely begin seeing a gradual rise in the daily tide levels as we work our way toward October.  Because of this, anglers should start looking for September trout and redfish in many of the area back lakes as the higher tides become more prevalent, starting early each morning in shallow water with small top water baits and then moving to deeper water while throwing soft-plastics as the surface bite diminishes.  Lately, anglers have located the red bite over soft sand and mild mud, with an occasional mixture of shell provided as structure – key ingredients that can all be found in our back lake areas.

Recurring mild and brief northern frontal passages along the Texas coast throughout the month of September will not only signal moderate drops in temperature, but also of modest conditions that influence the ever-popular greening effect upon our Texas coastal waters.  With the approach of autumn beginning this month, we might very well be looking forward to what could possibly become some of this year’s most remarkable fishing to-date.  I hope you’ll join us as we look to enjoy some of the benefits offered by cooler conditions, and the rewards of some heated September action.  Good luck, and keep grindin’!

Bay Flats Lodge, Inc. Seadrift, TX 1-800-888-677-4868