Cypress
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Fish limits/seasons
The Feds. intend to lower the catch limit of red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico to 2/day.  Evidently the snapper are being caught before they reach mature
breeding size.  In many area's it's at least a 20 mile one-way run to snapper
producing fishing grounds. Expect a lot of used 4/0 Penns will be on the market.
Question? When's the last time the catch limits were changed in The Sea Of Cortez?:?
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I think 1974. The market in Baja Sur in restaurants is for Entero, the whole fish so all our fishermen are after very small snapper. Our local
pangeros on a good day can make $300 dollars each if they get into really small fish. Somebody posted that it may not hurt the fishery but my
thinking is it sure can't help it.
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Cypress
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Osprey, Thanks.  So, the commercial guys are going for the small snapper
and the tourists, as usual, are going for the big ones.  The big one's are
the breeders.
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Hook
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
Osprey, Thanks. So, the commercial guys are going for the small snapper
and the tourists, as usual, are going for the big ones. The big one's are
the breeders. |
yeah, but the small ones never get to be the big ones and breed even once. At least the larger units have probably had a chance to propagate once.
Up here in SoCal, some of us who still keep and eat calico bass (aka kelp bass) use a self imposed slot limit. The minimum size is 12 inches. I
personally dont keep anything over 16 inches with the idea that the big breeders should also be returned, along with the smaller units.
Keeping and eating calicos is a little bit controversial up here. I still practice it but many have chosen not to. Next to halibut, I think they are
the best eating fish in our inshore waters. I like em better than WSB.
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Cypress
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Hook, Slot limits work.
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yellowtail limits
Do you remember the yellowtail bite in BOLA this spring?
When I showed up at what seemed like the end of the bite I met a guy at Daggetts who had just come in with 27 yellowtail caught off Isla Smith. He
said he was done by 10AM. I wondered how he knew when he was done. He had been there a week and had caught about 30 every day. He would have one on
before the jig hit bottom.
I asked him if he knew there was a limit here. He replied that nobody cared here in BOLA. Nothing is going to waste, he told me. We'll have a big
barbeque back home and all the neighbors will join in.
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Cypress
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Skipjack, It's people like the BBQ guy that give sports/recreational fisherman a bad name. I'd rather see a commercial guy wrap a school up with a net than
some greedy "sports?" fisherman take 'em and give 'em away. It shows disrespect for the law, the fish and other fishermen as well.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
Skipjack, It's people like the BBQ guy that give sports/recreational fisherman a bad name. I'd rather see a commercial guy wrap a school up with a net than
some greedy "sports?" fisherman take 'em and give 'em away. It shows disrespect for the law, the fish and other fishermen as well. |
Quite often folks want to bring something back to show friends and family, I think no matter how you prep and store, nothing beats fresh fish, my
thoughts only.
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