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re: Louisiana Flounder Fishing Closed 10/15 to 11/30 Officially Official
Posted on 7/21/22 at 7:56 am to YOURADHERE
Posted on 7/21/22 at 7:56 am to YOURADHERE
We've caught some nice flounder this summer down around Fourchon. Would really suck to have to throw one of those bad boys back
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Posted on 7/21/22 at 8:49 am to dandyjohn
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I think y'all don't seem to be understand commercial fisherman are targeting flounder deliberately under the cover of trawling for shrimp.
Talked to a friend who is a guide and asked him if there is anything different about this year where we are seeing much better flounder numbers. He told me it's probably due to less shrimpers out with fuel being high.
This post was edited on 7/21/22 at 8:51 am
Posted on 7/21/22 at 8:54 am to YOURADHERE
Thanks for posting. The reported harvests have been steadily declining. Flounder fishing has never been more popular in Cameron though. From October through November there's a fishermen every 20 yards for 2 miles at the gulf. And they're all catching. The game wardens are gonna need to police that area. The uneducated on the law are gonna be all over that place this year. Mostly Texicans.
Posted on 7/21/22 at 9:01 am to YOURADHERE
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including any flounder caught as bycatch in any other fishery
This is the biggest thing. I've seen guys specifically target them. Bring home several 100 quart ice full of flounder as by catch. At Robinson Canal every fall they do this.
ETA; IMO, Shrimpers should be 100% shellfish harvest only.
This post was edited on 7/21/22 at 9:06 am
Posted on 7/21/22 at 9:05 am to Ron Cheramie
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The shrimpers on calcasieu lake were targeting flounder intentionally. They are allowed to sell flounder bycatch from shrimping but the way the rules were before nothing stoped then from trawling the ship channel during their fall migration under the disguise of shrimping
This rule should keep the shrimpers from targeting these areas during the flounder migration which is the only reason they were trawling there to begin with.
I don’t think any other gamefish are allowed to be kept while trawling or purse seining?
all correct
Posted on 7/21/22 at 9:09 am to Dead Snake
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Would really suck to have to throw one of those bad boys back
Really suck, yes, but would suck worse if you could never catch them again... I'm willing to suffer a little if it means we finally get the commercial in check
Posted on 7/21/22 at 3:24 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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market has negligible impact on any salt water fish populations besides bow fishing reds
This is negligible as well.
Posted on 7/21/22 at 6:26 pm to choupiquesushi
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Yep. The shrimpers would “accidentally” catch them when they were “shrimping”. Come back to the dock with 10 lbs of shrimp and a thousand flounder.
so throwing brine dead flounder over the side will help?
It will stop them from targeting flounder. They aren't actually shrimping, the flounder are their catch. When you see a bunch of Asians on a shrimp boat in the fall they are not going for shrimp.
Posted on 7/21/22 at 6:28 pm to iron banks
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Here in SELA is really won't matter to rec fishermen. We rarely catch them anymore.
Flounder have been out all over this year and it isn't even the best time of year to catch. Fishing in general has been hot all over SELA. It is because it has a been a while since they diverted a bunch of fresh water.
Posted on 7/22/22 at 6:39 am to armsdealer
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It will stop them from targeting flounder. They aren't actually shrimping, the flounder are their catch. When you see a bunch of Asians on a shrimp boat in the fall they are not going for shrimp.
They aren't burning a bunch of diesel and ice for flounders.
Posted on 7/22/22 at 7:26 am to armsdealer
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It is because it has a been a while since they diverted a bunch of fresh water.
Nothing to do with less pressure over the last year? I remember something like this happening after Katrina.
Posted on 7/22/22 at 8:31 am to Capt ST
quote:This... and PLENTY specks were being caught east bank in plaquemines parish near where river water was flowing freely through gaps...
Nothing to do with less pressure over the last year? I remember something like this happening after Katrina.
But I'd say we've seen less than half the boats we saw at marinas in previous years.
Posted on 10/12/22 at 8:57 am to choupiquesushi
Going to be at Big lake Friday through Sunday. If we catch flounder on Friday, is there anything we need to do to keep them through the weekend? Is there a tagging situation?
Posted on 10/12/22 at 11:40 am to armsdealer
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It is because it has a been a while since the river has been this low.
FIFY
Posted on 10/12/22 at 1:19 pm to YOURADHERE
My guy in Hackberry knows a shrimper that caught 2000 lbs a day for a week last year and my 10 a day is hurting the population? lol@ Louisiana
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