so it seems
Yep. I remember the good ol days. As a kid growin up, I used to fish the Indian River down in Melbourne Beach, and I always caught 3 or 4 whiting for dinner almost every day. Sometimes used to get a nice surprise and get a nice hawg trout in the surf or wading on the flats. Now, I can actually go fishing in the river or in the surf and get skunked. Commercial fishing is killing the recreational fishery.
I can tell you that it is always the guides pushing for all these Regs. You see they don't want to have to become better fisherman. They want there fish in a barrel. I guarantee you that there are plenty of snook around Tampa Bay. Right now most of the good fish are off the beach spawning. The freeze did hurt them some, but mostly the smaller fish" undersize". You can't keep these any way. We are already restricted to a small window of opportunity with a 5" window in size limit. Allowing the fall 3 month season will not hurt a thing. If they have to close it some than I say open up the month of September, and close Oct., and Nov. Stop the chumming with sardines, and do not allow snook charters if they are so concerned. It is always the recreational angler who pays the price in full. I still say we have plenty of snook. Don't force me to go out, and catch a few to post some pics. to prove my point. I am still catching up on my honeydos for deer season.
I can tell you that it is always the guides pushing for all these Regs. You see they don't want to have to become better fisherman. They want there fish in a barrel. I guarantee you that there are plenty of snook around Tampa Bay. Right now most of the good fish are off the beach spawning. The freeze did hurt them some, but mostly the smaller fish" undersize". You can't keep these any way. We are already restricted to a small window of opportunity with a 5" window in size limit. Allowing the fall 3 month season will not hurt a thing. If they have to close it some than I say open up the month of September, and close Oct., and Nov. Stop the chumming with sardines, and do not allow snook charters if they are so concerned. It is always the recreational angler who pays the price in full. I still say we have plenty of snook. Don't force me to go out, and catch a few to post some pics. to prove my point. I am still catching up on my honeydos for deer season.
I don't agree with you. What is the difference between a recreational fisherman and a guide? Guides get paid to take out recreational anglers. I don't get your point of why the guides are trying to ban the keeping of snook it doesn't make sense. Guides get paid for it and if the angler wants to keep a fish then he keeps a fish. No guide in his right mind would try to put restrictions or bans on his source of income. Do you think the charter captains and guides are the people responsible for the grouper fishing limits and season closures too? No cause thats how they make a living and to think they want all these extra limits and restrictions is just crazy talk.
Most inshore fishing charters in our area are out of towners who are not here to harvest a snook. They just want to catch 1.The guides, and there organizations are the ones who have pushed for the stiff regs. we have in place today. Maybe you do not agree, but what do you know, or have to say about the snook numbers. All I am saying is I have seen plenty of fish this summer, and had no trouble catching any in the Tampa bay area. I do not by the B.S. on why they want to keep it closed. It is just another decision being made with out any science behind it.
