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LDWF Trying to Change Speckled Trout Size and Bag Limit - THIS WEEK

Posted on 9/29/20 at 9:04 am
Posted by craazyjose
BTR
Member since Mar 2017
168 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 9:04 am
LDWF Commission Meeting on Thursday, Oct 1. A reduction in speckled trout size and bag limit has been put on the agenda. See details below. If you have an opionion - please make your voices heard.
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission will meet at 9:30 a.m., Thursday, October 1, at the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries headquarters, located at 2000 Quail Drive in Baton Rouge.
Due to the public health emergency guidelines established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, only 40 members of the public will be allowed in the meeting room at one time. All members of the public will have to wear a mask to enter the building.
However, in an effort to allow more public access to the meeting, the Commission asks those persons attending for a single agenda item to leave after that item is heard. This will allow other members of the public to rotate into the room.
Agenda:
1. Call to Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Roll Call
4. Adoption of September 3, 2020 Commission Meeting Minutes
5. Approval of October 1, 2020 Agenda
6. Commission Special Announcements / Personal Privilege
7. Enforcement Report, September 2020 – Major Edward Skena, Enforcement Division
8. Receive and Consider Resolutions to Ratify and Confirm the Establishment and Current Boundaries of Certain Wildlife Management Areas – Alvin Landry, Legal
9. Receive a Presentation on the Renovation of Bussey Brake Reservoir – Ryan Daniel, Inland Fisheries Biologist
10. Receive and Consider a Notice of Intent to Modify Recreational Spotted Seatrout Size and Bag Limit Regulations – Jason Adriance, Marine Fisheries Biologist
11. Receive an Update on the 2020 Recreational Red Snapper Season – Jason Adriance, Marine Fisheries Biologist
12. Set February 2021 Commission Meeting Date
13. Receive Public Comments
14. Adjournment
A live audio/video stream of this meeting will be available via Zoom. To attend via webinar register at: LINK . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
PUBLIC INPUT:
The public will have an opportunity to provide comments on the above agenda by attending in person (room is limited to 40 members of the public) or by sending an email to Comments@wlf.la.gov by 11:59 p.m., September 30, 2020. Your email must include the agenda item # in the subject of your email. The body of your message should include your name and address before your comment.
Posted by Splackavellie
Bayou
Member since Oct 2017
9783 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 9:06 am to
Posted by wahoocs
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2004
22267 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 9:07 am to
Receive and consider a notice of intent

I don't think that's the vote

But still worth mentioning
Posted by craazyjose
BTR
Member since Mar 2017
168 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 9:43 am to
If there is no or little opposition, they will vote on it.
Posted by 9Fiddy
19th Hole
Member since Jan 2007
64014 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 9:56 am to
Are there details as to what the limits could be changed to?
Posted by TJG210
New Orleans
Member since Aug 2006
28333 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 9:58 am to
All after one of the best speckled trout seasons in recent memories, what a fricking joke.
Posted by GooDat
The Delta
Member since Dec 2013
241 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 9:58 am to
The limit needs to be reduced to 10 fish at 15"
Posted by CHEDBALLZ
South Central LA
Member since Dec 2009
21903 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 10:00 am to
We had a couple bad years from a high river. I dont think it needs to change. There are millions of specks out there.
Posted by bayoudude
Member since Dec 2007
24946 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 10:02 am to
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The limit needs to be reduced to 10 fish at 15"


Pretty sure that is the current regulation in MS. Just curious how much fatality from throwbacks that would cause. I would rather 10-15 fish and no size. Those 11-1/2” fish eat just fine
Posted by Splackavellie
Bayou
Member since Oct 2017
9783 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 10:03 am to
Looking forward to a good fall. Should be good imo.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
81590 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 10:12 am to
quote:

The limit needs to be reduced to 10 fish at 15"
15" is a bit much.
Posted by craazyjose
BTR
Member since Mar 2017
168 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 10:25 am to
Nothing published, but the department is pushing for 15/person and 13.5 inch size limit
Posted by Jvalhenson
Member since Sep 2017
372 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 10:33 am to
MS is 15" and 15 fish. It used to be 13" and 15 fish. Going to 15" is completely ridiculous. Just about ensures that the vast majority of fish killed will be females while all the males are mostly under 15. Just stupid. As I argued my breathe out in MS if they are really concerned about the trout then they would do a slot of something like 12-18" with only 1 over or something along those lines. But as always it aint about the fish and never is. Sure is curious why commercial size didnt change in MS but rec did....hmmmm.....dont take to much common sense to figure that out.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
81590 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 10:45 am to
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Just about ensures that the vast majority of fish killed will be females
Wouldn't those be killed no matter what?
Posted by LEASTBAY
Member since Aug 2007
14256 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 10:47 am to
Didn't realize the males stay small.

I wish if they changed something it would just be 1 thing at a time and see how it works. Reduce the limit but not the size.
This post was edited on 9/29/20 at 10:49 am
Posted by Ron Cheramie
The Cajun Hedgehog
Member since Aug 2016
5131 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 10:50 am to
Gonna be some mad guides in SE La. 12” fish are their bread and butter.
Posted by speckledawg
Somewhere Salty
Member since Nov 2016
3914 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 10:53 am to
quote:

MS is 15" and 15 fish. It used to be 13" and 15 fish. Going to 15" is completely ridiculous. Just about ensures that the vast majority of fish killed will be females while all the males are mostly under 15. Just stupid. As I argued my breathe out in MS if they are really concerned about the trout then they would do a slot of something like 12-18" with only 1 over or something along those lines. But as always it aint about the fish and never is. Sure is curious why commercial size didnt change in MS but rec did....hmmmm.....dont take to much common sense to figure that out.

'

Yep. Utter BS the way it happened over here.
Posted by TheDrunkenTigah
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2011
17311 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 11:00 am to
quote:

Gonna be some mad guides in SE La. 12” fish are their bread and butter.



Yet no matter how many they kill, those school trout are still there.

Almost like it’s a function of habitat or something.
Posted by KemoSabe65
70605
Member since Mar 2018
5111 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 11:28 am to
Ima kill some after work this week so i can let ya know.
BL will see a yuge bump for the next couple years but it's just fools gold. The environmental damage to the lake isn't slowing down so we will be back to the down cycle soon after the boom. 10 & 13" will not hurt my feels nor 15 & 13.5" but erryone elses mileage may vary.
Posted by Jvalhenson
Member since Sep 2017
372 posts
Posted on 9/29/20 at 11:42 am to
No def not. I and most folks I know MUCH prefer to eat 12-14" trout. IMO at 15" they start getting course and lose their flavor. So for lots of folks like me I would be keeping the first 15(or whatever the number is for the area) I caught that measured and be gone. So most of the time I would have a box full of 12-14" males with a few females mixed in. Now all those get let go and we keep fishing until we get enough 15" mostly all females to fill the need while a pile of those 12-14s that are released die anyways. Going to 15" does absolutely nothing but kill lots of big females that otherwise may not have been caught while also killing a lot of under 15s that are released. Then again it has made me stop fishing for specks as much and now I target flounder, white trout, and ground mullet way more than specks since I dont like the big ones anyways. Which IMO is the entire goal of all of this. Make the recreational guy stop fishing and get him to just buy fish instead of getting his own.
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