re: LDWF wants your thoughts on Speckled Trout

I saw someone further up mentioned redfish. They are now a problem in the marsh. Almost any day I can put my boat in the water and be back at the launch with a limit of reds within an hour. Several times I decided to keep a couple and they were slap full of baby specks. Now I don’t know how much predation of this sort goes on but I would imagine it’s pretty common. Multiply that by millions of redfish and to think they eat nearly constantly means they are probably a significant predator. In addition to the specks I think the over abundance of redfish are also hurting the crab populations.

Hell before Paul prudhomme came along fricking reds were considered trash fish. They used to sell them for fertilizer and cat food. Then the blackened redfish craze hit and they nearly wiped them out. When the strict limits were placed on them and they stopped the purse seines and fill nets the numbers exploded. I don’t target them much but that to me is where the limit should be raised rather than lowered.