LSUengr

My favorite color is Brown!

Headed up with the family for tonight's game before heading onto Gatlinburg for a wedding. Sitting in left field GA. Screw the rebels, bears, landsharks or whatever they go by these days.

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but the rulemakers are bought and paid for.

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They are and until the recreational fishing community makes it known that this needs to change, they will go where the money is. Losing votes affects their ability to get those campaign donations. It's sad that only a small contingent of that community makes their voices heard.

The chairman of both the House NRC and Senate NRC have taken multiple donations. The prevailing thought is that HB 855 isn't getting out of the house committee, but if it does the senate committee will kill it. Landry has threatened legislators over this issue. He won't sign 855 if it reaches his desk. We need a coalition of fisherman and sportsmen to put pressure on him. Not enough opposition at the moment.

Was just coming to post this. I plan to attend. Everyone should email if they can. If you have friends who aren't very engaged and will only email once, saving that email for the Senate NRC would be better.

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How then can you prove you have a valid stamp if you don't have the physical with you?

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You can't. If you decide to buy a digital stamp, you must always have your phone with you. I can't make sure you have enough battery and if you don't have service you have to take a screenshot of it.

Someone else mentioned it in the thread, but you don't receive the hard copy until after the season since you could allow someone else to use the hard copy and you use the digital. The other option is to go to the Post Office and buy the hard copy. I went to four different post offices in Baton Rouge this year the last week of November and couldn't find a single stamp. Had to buy digital. Just got my hard copy in the mail this week also.

Winner winner chicken dinner

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Orgeron is doing a great job. This 22' contour bill is the actual correct way to regulate the menhaden industry because the most recent LGL bycatch study showed that at about 22' the bycatch of reds, trout, flounder, croaker, etc drops off dramatically.

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Seems like a distance is still better for enforcement. How is anyone going to tell if they are operating at that contour? Simple elimination or at least 1 mile is the answer. Still don't know why La, with one of the best fisheries in the world, can't figure this out. All our gulf neighbors have.

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Big chunks of plaquemines parish too.

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Yep, have a camp in the marsh with year to year lease. Been that way for 20 years. We built ours so materials and sweat equity is what we would lose. Ownership changed on ours from parents to kids and they continued lease so it worked out. Always a risk with year to year lease. If losing $30k unexpectedly will sink you (it would for me), then don't do it. More times than not though these things continue on for decades because the family doesn't want to do anything on the land and mailbox money is an easy source of income.

Went and cut the grass at the camp downriver Friday. Went to Empire/Buras area Saturday morning. 3 of us caught 20 specs ranging from 16"-18". Bite was slow, but all nice fish.

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And funny he used the number 350

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Obviously reads TD. No one else uses 350 in normal conversation.