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I heard thru the Saltvine.. Snook season might possibly closed statewide due to fish kill.....

Has anyone else heard this from your respectful neighbor Fwc officers...

Glad I stocked up... :D

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Snukes, bones & poons all closed till sept. Not sure why close the last two if theres no harvest to begin with. Just our fine gov @ work! :D

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Hey ryan Where ya been I sent you a pm about a sword trip also invited rainmaker... I guess im not good enough to fish with.. LOL Yeah I heard from from a friend of mine.. He was hiding in the bushes waiting for people to come in so he could check the guys coming in....
I thought he was pullling my leg.. Well I never really paid much attention to those seasons........

Hey

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Yeah, I was told the same.

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At least other species seasons remain open...Way out here where government credit gets less than junk bond status from Wall St., they don't muck around. They just close entire fishing areas. Never mind re-considering bag or size, or seasonal limits - they just shut it down...never mind the economic impact...Arnold "the governator" and his wife's super eco cronies hav become a sportsman's nightmare as he begs Pres. Obama for Fed dollars... sorry to change the

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Actually red snapper is closed for 6 months and all "shallow water" grouper are closed until the end of April. So we can fiddle with junkie bottom fish or stay inshore and look for scarce redfish and frozen seatrout. What I thought the Magneson Stevens Act would do for us has backfired.

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Shallow water grouper will soon be joined with anything from the bottom caught in 240' on out out! Start purchasing lotsa books about fish cause looking @ photos is about all were gonna be able to do! Which reminds me, I need to get a grille for my boat! ;)

Chris, been crazy around here. Let me know when you want to put a trip together. Haven't fished since Oct & it's killing me (&my wife). :D

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What I have seen said no bottom fishing for anything from 90 feet out to 240 feet. They reason that you "might" catch a grouper or snapper and release mortality is high from 90 feet and deeper. Releasing shallower than that has a greater survival rate. At any rate - to save the grouper and snapper they are just going to shut all of it down from North Carolina to the Florida Keys. Good old SAFMC - damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. Ready shoot, aim...

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From what I've read 17b they are trying to attach a closure from 240' on out to "save" the warsaw, snowies, tiles, yellow eye's, queens, vermee's (already closed) till March & all other bottom dwellers. The part about 240' on out means that even if caught in bahamian waters they are still illegal to posess. :mad:

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The new rule for Spanish/ Key west grunts goes into effect Feb 1st
Slot limit is minimum length 12.25" Maximum length 12.910"
4 fish per boat limit.
No fishing for grunt using dead or live bait, artificial baits only.
All female Grunts must be immediately released after properly being dehooked with a state approved dehooking device.
No fishing for Grunts on a full moon or incoming tide. Grunts caught using a left handed reel will be exempt from above rules as they are considered "Left handed Grunts"


Its just a matter of time.

:D :( :o :eek: ;) [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] :D

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Hello Everyone,

I did a little reading today and WOW.. Surprising... I Now have bandits port and starboard.. LOL Can afford the fancy electric reels... Many Commercial friends of mine are just dealing with it and staying true with the law.. <SNAPPER GROUPER>

The snook and bones are always fun to play with on light tackle close to sundown.. It is always nice for the kids to get a keeper during season Its all they talk about when fishing comes up with guests.. Just shocked when Phil local FWC Officer told me...

Lately up my way Im sure all the local guys on here have had the same problem... You cant get away from the undersize grouper and snapper.. The Vermillion off of lake worth in the shallow have been as bad as the CHUBS....

Will get in touch Ryan.. Have a good week to all... STay warm Mr. Ron Brooks.

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Ryanandrenee-
I think the same rules apply to pinfish and catfish as well. Only dehookers are not permitted on catfish - they must be released by hand only... ;)

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So it appears that the only legal fish now are grunions, which must be caught by hand only during a high tide of a full moon, and bonnet-head sharks, which must be caught with your teeth, and may be kept only on every third left Friday before 4:30 a.m.

Have they outlawed underwater hunting of bears yet?

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If it get's too bad, we'll need to have a CSC gathering up here and go fishing! Wouldn't the sight of a CSC convoy coming up 95 turn some heads! :cool:

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Gathering in the Carolinas!!!!!! Lets go Who's gas card am I using.... I can make it To Jax with trailer no problem.... Some body on here has got some Loot.... I'm ready heading to Ft. pierce next week.... THen to the cape the week after....

Chris

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Just got off the phone with my attorney brother - and I am now reminded. We can still bottom fish for "bottom feeders"...

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There were reports of massive fish kills from the cold snap...

http://www.reel-time.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69935

"Onshore" is a good guy and tells it like it is.

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I'm 100% in favor of a snook closure in my area after what I saw in Pine Island Sound and lower Charlotte Harbor. I will even go as far as no target. Tarpon on the other hand are highly migratory and the overall population shouldn't have been hurt much. Some of the "river residents" were killed though. Time will tell.

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Wow how cold did the water get down there?

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Gulf was 47 for a couple days. Inshore was even lower. Mid 50's is the coldest I've ever seen the Gulf.

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In the mid-forties off Jacksonville and in the St Johns River system for about two weeks during that cold spell. Slowly coming back up. I fished yesterday - temperature at Mayport - the mouth of the St Johns River - was 51 degrees. It was warmer offshore.

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Excerpt from The Stuart News :(

Vero Beach’s Matt Fahmie and his friends used the rare opportunity to clean up the waterways a little bit of dead snook.

“We went out during the freezing temperatures just to look around and saw some snook struggling,” Fahmie said. “We went into some of the canals behind homes in John’s Island. The homeowners were pretty happy we were helping to clean up.”

Fahmie said his friends picked up over 70 large snook, 10 of which he estimated to be larger than 40 inches in length. The fish were taken to a tree farm in western Indian River County and used as fertilizer.


http://media.tcpalm.com/media/img/ph...48301_t607.jpg

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I was just down that way running a 60' Searay from Merrit Island to West Palm. The water in Merrit Island was freezing cold. At night in West Palm I tried fishing off the swim platform with the underwater lights on...but the huge snook swimming in the lights were not cooperating because of the cold temps. The only thing that would bite the shrimp was catfish...

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Luckily the cold weather did not affect the redfish population. Caught this 27 incher and another just like her on 1-20 off the rocks in North Florida. Water temperature was about 51.

http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/s...ck/redron3.jpg

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Braggart.

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Hope those reds keep working. I'll be down in crystal river area yak fishing in a few weeks.

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Hey, Ron. Listening to the fishing reports for the Outer Banks, NC, the reds are working the shoreline in massive amounts, reports of schools over a mile long. Surf fishing yields a catch almost every cast when in the school. Been too busy with mom and work to go. :(

Just talked to David. We're going to get together soon. Thanks again!!!

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I'm trying to find a good older Seacraft for him to buy - one that does not need a lot of work, because he can't afford to fix one and does not know how anyway. He is shopping for a boat - Currently he is fishing out of an old 15 ft Duracraft aluminum boat I gave him several years ago. All he wants to do is fish for rockfish in the sound and for shad in the spring. So he will keep the Duracraft to take to Weldon a few times in March and April. He's looking to spend 10K or less if possible.