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re: 2025 Red Snapper Season Thread
Posted on 5/5/25 at 1:27 pm to deeprig9
Posted on 5/5/25 at 1:27 pm to deeprig9
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Or the crew prefers to get methed-up on the job to increase productivity.
That is not out of the question for certain....most of them seem to be of the type you would not be shocked to find were indeed methed up most of the time.
I spent a lot of time as a kid and a teen in Johns Pass Florida/ Madeira Beach. Even back in the 70s and 80s the grouper boat deck hands were certainly on something most of the time LOL...it was a fantastic educational experience for a young man!
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Posted on 5/5/25 at 1:38 pm to miramon
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Also think they should allow you to keep the 14 and 15 inchers as opposed to having a trail of dead ones floating down current from your boat. That would let guys get done and quit killing them every time they drop a squid down. My .002
SO the season on the Atlantic coast is one day and that is infinitely more than they usually get. They still allow head boats to drop squid on hard bottom and eerybody knows what going to happen when you drop a chunk of squid on hard bottome where A) there are red snapper about and B) red snapper have more or less been closed to recreational angling since jesus wore short pants. You are going to catch a LOT of red snapper....on a full half day head boat they will catch 50-100 15-25 pound red snapper, out of season, and have to vent everyone of them. About 2/3s never even try to submerge after being vented....they simply turn belly up and drift off to feed the tax man. Of the 1/3 that do submerge I would bet half do not make it past the tax man and half of those who do probably succomb to being caught and vented. I have been offshore on the Atlantic coast behind head boats and there is a steady line of BIG red snapper drifting off to feed the tax man. They really should simply ban ALL bottom fishing in that scenario....if Red Snapper is nearing extinction (its not, or at least not that you can tell by the number caught and vented) and it is nearly impossible NOT to catch them and equally difficult to succesfully release them all bottom fishing should be closed or some limited catch and keep of red snapper should be allowed....because it is a damn shame to see 20 -20+ pound red snapper floating belly up
Posted on 5/5/25 at 2:05 pm to AwgustaDawg
Thought some of y'all might find this interesting...not snapper related but fishing related.
That friend of my stepdad's had a 26 foot Chriscraft center console boat and no compass or any sort of navigation aid. He used an A.M. radio, batter powered. When he thought he was close to where he wanted to fish he would whip that fricker out, turn it on, pull up the antennae and find the general direction of Tampa, Clearwater and St. Pete....not actual music or broadcasting but a change in the static LOL...he would then maneuver the boat until he knew he was where he wanted to be and he was not wrong often....I do not know to this day how big these areas he fished were but I do remember at times we wouldn't catch anything and move just a little and wear them out.
He did the same thing to return to the hill. He'd turn that radio until the static sounded a little different and say "There's Tampa" and off we would go....we usually wound up within a mile north or south of Johns Pass....but many times it would be dead on....
He also had a hook and line dolphin permit. When we went dolphin fishing he would get carboard boxes and we would break them down and the next morning we would have a stack of the damned things, soaking wet 'cause theyre on a boat in the morning, stacked about 8 feet high. barely room in the boat for folks. We would run offshore and start slinging those boxes out of the boat....3-8 of them and then we would another mile or so and do the same thing....until there were no more boxes. We would then run back to the first bunch of boxes and it would be loaded with bait and school dolphin - 10-25 pounders. He did not like bulls LOL...to much work. We would toss a barbless hook onto one of those boxes with a chunk of squid or cut bait and drag it off the box and it would be on immediately....and we always left one fish in the water while we de-hooked one....they would simply stay right at the boat waiting to get on ice I think cause that is certainly where they wound up. We would literally lowed the free board on that boat by a good 18 inches with the weight of fish and head back to Tampa with that AM radio....and no, he did not ever bother to pick up those boxes....
That friend of my stepdad's had a 26 foot Chriscraft center console boat and no compass or any sort of navigation aid. He used an A.M. radio, batter powered. When he thought he was close to where he wanted to fish he would whip that fricker out, turn it on, pull up the antennae and find the general direction of Tampa, Clearwater and St. Pete....not actual music or broadcasting but a change in the static LOL...he would then maneuver the boat until he knew he was where he wanted to be and he was not wrong often....I do not know to this day how big these areas he fished were but I do remember at times we wouldn't catch anything and move just a little and wear them out.
He did the same thing to return to the hill. He'd turn that radio until the static sounded a little different and say "There's Tampa" and off we would go....we usually wound up within a mile north or south of Johns Pass....but many times it would be dead on....
He also had a hook and line dolphin permit. When we went dolphin fishing he would get carboard boxes and we would break them down and the next morning we would have a stack of the damned things, soaking wet 'cause theyre on a boat in the morning, stacked about 8 feet high. barely room in the boat for folks. We would run offshore and start slinging those boxes out of the boat....3-8 of them and then we would another mile or so and do the same thing....until there were no more boxes. We would then run back to the first bunch of boxes and it would be loaded with bait and school dolphin - 10-25 pounders. He did not like bulls LOL...to much work. We would toss a barbless hook onto one of those boxes with a chunk of squid or cut bait and drag it off the box and it would be on immediately....and we always left one fish in the water while we de-hooked one....they would simply stay right at the boat waiting to get on ice I think cause that is certainly where they wound up. We would literally lowed the free board on that boat by a good 18 inches with the weight of fish and head back to Tampa with that AM radio....and no, he did not ever bother to pick up those boxes....
Posted on 5/5/25 at 4:06 pm to Icansee4miles
Didn’t Trump eliminate NOAA ????
Posted on 5/5/25 at 4:43 pm to AwgustaDawg
That’s a great story. My Dad (who is almost 99) said they would throw out squares of 1/4” plywood tethered to bamboo poles in the Mississippi Sound during the summers they stayed down there and fish them all summer for Tripletail. I’m old enough to have started fishing offshore using Loran-C, what a POS that was compared to what we have now.
As an update to my own OP, my buddy that guides trout and reds out of Venice just posted a box full of absolute hammer snapper from today. From his 24’ bayboat. He really knows how to hurt a guy.
As an update to my own OP, my buddy that guides trout and reds out of Venice just posted a box full of absolute hammer snapper from today. From his 24’ bayboat. He really knows how to hurt a guy.
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