re: Cleaning fish at camp - legal question

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When did they institute limits on reds and trout?

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late 1986 or 1987 I know in summer of 86 there were NO limits of trout...

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Where did you find that language? I did a halfassed attempt to find it on their website with no luck.

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LINK

On page 39

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§55. Search with or without warrant

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Yeah, it says place where birds, fish,etc are stored. If you are thought to have any wild game they can search

Your post reminds me of a trip a cousin and I made down the River close to Buras.
We would cross the River and go thru Ostrica Lock to get to his camp down a deadend canal near the River. WE fished Bay Denesse, Raccoon Pt, Quarantine Bay.
This particular weekend we left NOLa Friday morning, fished that evening, Saturday and Sunday morning. Cleaned all the fish at the camp.
Sunday, as we were pulling the boat out, we saw what looked like a W&F boat coming upriver. Guy had on not just green jeans, but a green jacket.

My cousin took the icechest full of fish out of the boat and put it down beside the boat ramp on the other side of the boat from the suspected agent. We finished getting the boat ready and messed around the boat and truck, looking busy.

Luckily the dude just zoomed by not even looking our way. He wasn't in a W&F boat either. If he had been and stopped, we had no idea who that ice chest belonged too. We snatched it up and threw it in the boat. He stored his boat at a shed at Empire so we weren't too worried about having the fish in his truck and not pulling a boat from that point.
Kinda scary, it could have gotten ugly!

Oh we would be screwed if we got stopped.

Last trip was something around 75 specs, a nice mess of bass and some reds. All fillets minus the redfish.

I remember well the pre-limit days. One trip out of Tiger Pass on Jan 2 of whatever year in the early 80s we had to stop fishing. We filled whatever the biggest sized box you could get back then (maybe 100 qt?) and our drink box. Could not put another Red in it. All 12 to about 20 inches, no huge ones. Luckily it was cold as hell!
Another trip we filled two or three boxes with speckled trout. We never would count them. We'd get home sometimes, call the neighbors to help clean ahd fry right out of the box. Good Times!

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We have a hunting camp down off lake decade, so anytime we make a trip we clean all our fish at the camp to make life easy. Well I was going through the fishing regulations, and it basically states you can't have any filleted fish on the boat when you come in.

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You're asking two different things here, really. ONE, is it legal to clean/fillet them at the camp- to which I'd say yes. TWO, is it legal to clean/fillet them on the boat- to which is obviously not legal.

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Those were the days when you didn't have a successful trip unless you caught a "boxfull". Gillnets and the blackened redfish craze started by Paul Prudhomme damn near wiped out the redfish stock and lead to the limits. Same with trout and gillnets. A lot of folks don't care for the CCA (then the GCCA) but without the efforts of that group, there might not be any more reds and specks to catch.

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Yeah I wish I had some of those old times pic fishing reports....


Chef..mixed box green trout, lake runners and reds

Delacroix boxes of trout with a few reds

Etc

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"All saltwater finfish caught in possession of
a recreational angler must have the head
and caudal fin intact until set on shore.
Garfish may have the head and caudal fin
removed prior to the fish being on shore as
long as a sufficient patch of skin that clearly
identifies the fish remains on the fish.

Exception: Tuna, swordfish and shark
possessed by a recreational angler must not
be skinned or scaled until set or put on
shore. Tuna that meet minimum size
requirements may have the head removed if
the carcass length is in excess of the minimum
total length. See Lengths on page 14.

Fillets may not be possessed on the water,
except for the purpose of consumption at
sea aboard the harvesting vessel. An individual
must not have more than 2 pounds
of finfish parts per person in state waters,
or more than 1.5 pounds of finfish parts per
person in federal waters, on board the vessel,
provided that the vessel is equipped to
cook finfish and that the finfish does not
exceed applicable bag limits. These provisions
do not apply to bait species.

Saltwater finfish caught or transported by a
recreational fisherman are presumed to
have been caught in Louisiana waters, for
license requirements.

All regulations regarding these species
apply whether caught in freshwater or saltwater
areas."

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This only applies to saltwater fish, not freshwater.

Also you want your work around the law? put a BBQ pit in your boat, and you are then allowed 2lbs person of fish fillets while on the water.

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Not legal to clean them if you have to get in a boat to get them back to the truck

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Well that is exactly what I wasn't understanding. They have camps only accessible from boat? Dam, that's "camping".

I couldn't understand why they wouldn't put the dam ice chest of clean fish in the truck and not back in the boat.