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Hey Louisiana Fisherman, you guys are getting to keep 4 snapper a piece ?
Posted on 3/14/25 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 3/14/25 at 8:45 pm
frick that’s awesome, and everyone knows you guys have the least robust enforcement on the Gulf. We are stuck with two damn fish per angler.
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Posted on 3/14/25 at 9:24 pm to TutHillTiger
We did last year for a while. We should get to keep the most. We have the most. I just wish there weren't all the special considerations for commercial and charter fishermen. If anybody is wrecking the population, it ain't the recreational guys.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 9:41 pm to TutHillTiger
Yes, and for every snapper I can't keep, I kill a shark.
allegedly
allegedly
Posted on 3/14/25 at 9:51 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
quote:Louisiana has more snapper than Florida?
We should get to keep the most. We have the most.
This post was edited on 3/14/25 at 9:52 pm
Posted on 3/14/25 at 9:55 pm to highcotton2
I honestly thought bama had the most with all the artificial reefs, but your coastline is bigger I guess. My best two spots are completely sharked now and I don’t mean little wormy sharks but big 12 foot tigers, Makos and shits. We used to be able an hour or so in between the twins came in, (pair of 12 foot tigers) then the damn makos just sat under the freaking boat but we still could catch a limit but now first damn drop and it’s sharks, sharks and more sharks. I thought I had a grouper last year which I fought for an hour and half to only discover it was a huge shark with the line wrapped around his tail.
It used to be the big AJs we worried about but the sharks are unreal. My buddies are catching them on tremblers, high speed wahoo plastics, you name it. I had a buddy last year that hooked 9 yellowfins, he got the head of one them in.
We need some shark tournaments, the pendulum has swung too much their way
It used to be the big AJs we worried about but the sharks are unreal. My buddies are catching them on tremblers, high speed wahoo plastics, you name it. I had a buddy last year that hooked 9 yellowfins, he got the head of one them in.
We need some shark tournaments, the pendulum has swung too much their way
This post was edited on 3/14/25 at 10:05 pm
Posted on 3/15/25 at 1:41 am to highcotton2
quote:No, but Florida has a LOT more anglers going after snapper. You can catch snapper less than a mile off the coast in the panhandle which makes it possible for baws in skiffs and bay boats to go after snapper in Florida
Louisiana has more snapper than Florida?
Posted on 3/15/25 at 7:03 am to TutHillTiger
Be careful of those snappers down in Grand Isle. That shite don’t wash off
Posted on 3/15/25 at 7:10 am to highcotton2
Snapper numbers only count natural bottom.
They don't count snapper on platforms in Louisiana.
They don't count snapper on platforms in Louisiana.
Posted on 3/15/25 at 7:19 am to highcotton2
No, but I don't care about florida.
Posted on 3/15/25 at 7:30 am to TutHillTiger
Goodness your stories just never get better.
SSS
Shoot, sink, shut up
SSS
Shoot, sink, shut up
Posted on 3/15/25 at 11:55 am to snapper26
quote:
They don't count snapper on platforms in Louisiana.
Platforms are almost nonexistent on the shelf. We have been losing reef fish habitat for over a decade.
Posted on 3/15/25 at 11:59 am to Novastar
That whole idle iron rig removal thing was downright stupid.
Cant have all this great marine habitat laying around. Noooooooo. Gotta get rid of that shite
Cant have all this great marine habitat laying around. Noooooooo. Gotta get rid of that shite
Posted on 3/15/25 at 7:48 pm to snapper26
quote:
Snapper numbers only count natural bottom. They don't count snapper on platforms in Louisiana.
The study I posted did. LINK
quote:
Sampling efforts over the Louisiana shelf used C-BASS and TARAS towed gear methodologies (described in Section 7 below) over natural banks and UCB, including oil and gas infrastructure.
This post was edited on 3/15/25 at 7:50 pm
Posted on 3/16/25 at 6:46 pm to TutHillTiger
4 snapper each = good
2 cobia per boat = no good
2 cobia per boat = no good
Posted on 3/16/25 at 8:21 pm to TutHillTiger
Why not bring a high powered rifle? Would rather have fun shooting sharks, than losing fish to them
This post was edited on 3/17/25 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 3/16/25 at 9:48 pm to TutHillTiger
Preach. Sharks are unreal, most of our encounters have been packs of Bull Sharks, unfortunately, neither of the guys whose boats I fish on will allow me to bring my bangstick, and the few we are able to wrestle up to the boat are too big to easily split their belly open, which is my backup plan.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 9:52 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Obama used the Macando fear factor to award a bunch of contracts to his buddies to dismantle and haul off almost all of our iconic rigs. And didn’t even convert them to reefs, hauled them onshore. Didn’t help that Bobby Jindal raided nearly $20M out of the Rigs to Reefs fund that oil companies had been paying into so he wouldn’t have to raise taxes.
Posted on 3/17/25 at 6:48 am to Icansee4miles
Just to chime in with the shark problem
I saw/hooked/had a trout eaten by sharks no less than 10 times last summer alone. They were everywhere even in the trout spots. Unbelievable
I saw/hooked/had a trout eaten by sharks no less than 10 times last summer alone. They were everywhere even in the trout spots. Unbelievable
Posted on 3/17/25 at 8:23 am to TutHillTiger
4 per day is twice as worthwhile as 2 LOL.
I don't get people running too far offshore to catch 2 ARS. I go with a group once a year and they are ate up with it, 100 miles from the hill at a minimum, and we catch some pigs for certain BUT it takes 2 hours there and 2 hours back and you are limited out in 5 minutes. To get there in 2 hours or less and back costs about $1500 in fuel. Trigger fish are not open, almost all grouper are closed, the red snapper are far more aggressive than any other species so its almost impossible to get a bait pass them to the mangroves or Muttons...It is really not worth the effort. I only go because we have been going for years and its a fun trip but it would be just as fun to sit at the marina bar and drink beer....living in the Carribean spoiled me I guess but if it ain't a 150 quart cooler full of 10 pound plus queens and silks I don't get it....
I don't get people running too far offshore to catch 2 ARS. I go with a group once a year and they are ate up with it, 100 miles from the hill at a minimum, and we catch some pigs for certain BUT it takes 2 hours there and 2 hours back and you are limited out in 5 minutes. To get there in 2 hours or less and back costs about $1500 in fuel. Trigger fish are not open, almost all grouper are closed, the red snapper are far more aggressive than any other species so its almost impossible to get a bait pass them to the mangroves or Muttons...It is really not worth the effort. I only go because we have been going for years and its a fun trip but it would be just as fun to sit at the marina bar and drink beer....living in the Carribean spoiled me I guess but if it ain't a 150 quart cooler full of 10 pound plus queens and silks I don't get it....
Posted on 3/17/25 at 8:26 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
quote:
We did last year for a while. We should get to keep the most. We have the most. I just wish there weren't all the special considerations for commercial and charter fishermen. If anybody is wrecking the population, it ain't the recreational guys.
I saw a study once that indicated that a pound of red snapper caught recreationally in Florida added like $6 to the states revenue where the same pound caught commercially added less than $1. The idea that commercial fishing has to continue simply because it existed previously is fricking insane and immoral. Fortunately real estate prices are getting to the point where docking a commercial boat is unsustainable. Its bad for consumers but most would not know a red snapper filet from a tilapia filet anyway.
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