re: Louisiana’s Redfish Population Has Collapsed

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eah I get the concept but I don't see how this is a specific science to blow boats, you do the same thing with a mud motor and the only difference is you till the ground with the mud motor. Plus sounds like a flat bottom would be way better than any kind of V bottom

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They are both destructive in their own unique way. An air boat is gonna ride over the marsh grass instead of going around a point after a few passes that spot is bare dirt then not long after it’s a narrow cut and soon after is a gap. The pro-drives make passes chewing up water bottoms and getting into places that 25yrs ago nobody went into.

As for where does the problem lie it’s a multiphase issue but yet ldwf and CCA are willing to sit back because of not wanting to rock the boat is my opinion. Back when gill nets were banned everyone but the couple of fisherman who commercial fished were in favor for it. Now all of a sudden if changes are going to be made to any sport fishing regulations everyone knows that it’s going to have to affect everyone so if you cut bowfishing cca knows rodnreel limits and Quotas on how many guides can get lic will be on the table. If the guides push for recreational limits they know what’s gonna be said by the several hundred thousand recreational lic holders.

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You just described every boat ever that's not on plane

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My boat drafts like 14" I'd have to hit the bank going 40 knots to have my Keel hit grass. Anywhere my boat hits bottom hasn't been land in a long long time.

The difference is air boats are running where the Keel is on bottom the whole time, and depressing the bottom/bank while doing it.