straight from the "frontlines" in Gulf Shores Alabama. Water is awesome..beach is awesome...just caught a bunch of spanish mackerel and a few blues and ladyfish off the beach. There are cleanup guys all over the beach from tim to time and, yes, there are a quite a few tarballs but very comparable to th old days on Galveston or Grand Isle for those of you in their 40's or so. Will update later. Market out.