Grunts and grits.
but they do not cut the commercial slaughters out all the way...wrong!
yep, pretty soon mullet will be all you can catch, then your bait may become your food.
Nothing's wrong with a fat roe mullet. I like a strong tasting roe mullet, pan fried, with a few pieces of fried roe (redneck caviar), cheese grits, and swamp cabbage. A meal fit for a real cracker right there! I'll be snatching a cooler full of roe mullet this afternoon/night I hope.
The NMFS is doing their best to ruin the offshore bottom fishing for every recreational angler. I really hope this closure was based on real science data and doesn't have some political reasoning or something other alterior motive. My brother fished last Wednesday and they brought home a limit of gags (10 for 5 ppl) and released alot of legal-sized gags, as he nearly always does. I have alot of buddies that dive and they say nearly every hole they go to has hundreds of juvenile and adult gags on it from 25-60 ft of water, many of which also shoot a limit o gags everytime they go. Some that have been diving since the 5 fish per person rule and they say there's more overall gag grouper than ever around our coastline. I do believe in protecting our resources but I really don't know if a complete closure is really needed.
I am also hearing from MANY offshore guys that the red snapper are out of control. They say the ARS are so plentiful that you cannot get a bait down to the bottom without them stealing bait. Yet you can barely keep them.
I know a well respected guide up in your area that dove on holes a couple weeks ago where he could not buy a grouper bite(but catching the crap out of snapper,) that had always produced gags for years. He said the water column was stacked with snapper, and the bottom was stacked with gags
I think very little science was actually involved in this, more like Obama's master plan to end all recreational fishing once and for all. If my boat wasn't paid for, I would sell it faster than a hotcake
I am also hearing from MANY offshore guys that the red snapper are out of control. They say the ARS are so plentiful that you cannot get a bait down to the bottom without them stealing bait. Yet you can barely keep them.
I know a well respected guide up in your area that dove on holes a couple weeks ago where he could not buy a grouper bite(but catching the crap out of snapper,) that had always produced gags for years. He said the water column was stacked with snapper, and the bottom was stacked with gags
I think very little science was actually involved in this, more like Obama's master plan to end all recreational fishing once and for all. If my boat wasn't paid for, I would sell it faster than a hotcake
We've had that problem before also with the snapper. The only remedy for the situation (when fishing) is to find the largest pinfish in the livewell and put him on a 10 oz sinker and clip his tail so he sinks fast. It's a dang shame when you have to purposely try and sneak a bait past the snapper in the water column and can't keep but a few and only then during a couple months of the yr!
