gotta start somewhere

The one on paradise Louisiana .

A real fist wringer.

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Sat out in 2011 & filleted a 19' boat 6.5# Spec

If you don't want to give your money to the CCA that is 100% your right, but why would you take the opportunity for someone to win something away from them by killing or removing a tagged red????

That is also my right!

Never said it wasn't. Just asked why????

And I may have spent too much time with my grandson this weekend. Why PawPaw, why??????????

haha... I would do the same as him... ill eat a tagged red or a big trout this year... and take pics of both actions aswell... and send them to CCA

ha
 

probably better chance of him frying that fish than it would be for that same fish to be caught by another angler, so eat it or never see it again,

i will probably not sign back up again next year, but like said before that will be the year i catch a new boat or something

If I catch a tagged red I'm throwin it on the bank

Lmao

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ill just tag CCA on facebook with a picture of it on the grill.

With the tag still on it. Lol
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oh for sure man!

Jus pull tags let fish go. Keep tags for necklace. Or make some fish art with um. Or start side pot for non CCA members.

Yep side pot.

The CCA contest does not own the fish and cannot reserve it for their members by putting a tag on it. I'd take it home and fillet it like any other legal redfish.

Catching a legal fish is "dibbs." Tagging a fish for a contest is not.

That was soooooo not his point. LOL :shaking:

well I can only speak for myself and say that by taking that fish I reduce those who gain by supporting an organization that does nothing for my benefit and ONLY works against the interests of recreational anglers in Louisiana.

one less person taking pictures with their bribe from CCA to get others to send them money to hurt fishermens interests and also one less picture to show joining star pays off.

if I didn't want to keep the fish I would pull the STAR tag out and throw the no longer tagged fish back.

Would anyone like to start side pot for fish cought by non CCA members.

Rules are can not be member or in CCA turny . 20 dollar entry fee paied to salty Cajun . And most tags takes pot.

What are thoughts? We do this and stop the squabbling and it will be a real protest. CCA would have to take notice and we won't be left out of prize money possibility .

Seems to be good solution.

Another side pot for LWF tags too.

Anyone know whats leading it? My bud caught a 6.7 Toad flounder the first day of it but it was on my duck lease.

Should weighed it. The flounder that won last year came from private water.

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woa
 

2.55lbs on top right now

http://www.ccastar.com/index.php/current-leaderboard-57

Can someone please explain to me what the Star tournament is

A bottomless money pit you put your money into to watch a few select people utilize the money for personal interest and gain disguised as an organization (CCA) to support and protect recreational fisherman.

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A waste of money, kinda like the lottery, except it goes to support the certain few who benefit directly from contributiuons and tax write offs.;)

Got a text forwarded from someone about the STAR

This is what the forwarded text read "came from a CCA worker in Baton Rouge

" what's going on with Lake Charles area? We are not getting any fish weighted in for STAR and sign ups are down tremendous this year "

that is good. i hope we stay hard and they can notice that we see through them.

CCA gets none of my money. Like a lot of organizations CCA reached a point of being so big that they now spend all of their energy raising money to feed the beast instead of doing anything worth a damn. And a "Conservation" organization putting a bounty on big breeder trout? Really? Remember what it was like fishing Big Lake before the tournament vs the crowded **** show it has turned into now? If I catch a huge trout I'll photograph and release. If I catch a tagged red I'll eat it, put the tag into the cooked fillet and send pictures of it to the CCA.

I thought it had to be public water??? Too late now, that dude was good stuffed doe.

By the rules, yes. The guy was even reported and they still didn't give him a polygraph!

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Can't stand a cheater. Basically makes him a thief

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I'm a member of CCA for the cool stickers I can put on my truck

I didn't know there were any other reasons

STAR is just another CCA scam. Seems to me that an organization that claims to be an advocate for concervation shouldn't sponsor an event that encourages more fishing. There's enough people on the water as it is, no need to increase that with visions of sugar plums. Just a way to generate funds to lobby for more regulations. If I catch a tagged redfish, I'll grill it and use the tag to pick my teeth.

No side pot ?...... I guess y'all Gunna just keep on keeping on.

Ever hear of tag Louisiana I got word I'm be tagging . U can get a tshirt. No side pot with that one too.

wat? wat? wat? :confused: :shaking:

certaily a troll, right?

:rotfl:

A troll as in a big scary creature under a bridge? Or a troll as in someone looking to provoke an argument by posting a preposterous response on a message board? I've lived under a bridge before but I was simply voicing my opinion. Sorry. I bet the first thing that pops in your head when you see a parking lot full of cars on a Tuesday is "what this place needs is a few more boats". A troll, please. I wouldn't know what you were talking about if I hadn't have heard my little sister say it.

This is exactly the type of nonsense that I was referring to. This clown is obviously incapable of throwing a cast net or running a trot line or baiting his own hook, but he has beef with cca b/c he doesn't like them encouraging more people to go fishing. He says we don't need any more boats on the water.
If this is the best argument for a boycott of cca then I think cca will be just fine.
(I bet he's a Landrieu supporter!)


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That's racist bruh

#thuglife
#saltlife

[QUOTE=The shop in Broussard;702446]This is exactly the type of nonsense that I was referring to. This clown is obviously incapable of throwing a cast net or running a trot line or baiting his own hook, but he has beef with cca b/c he doesn't like them encouraging more people to go fishing. He says we don't need any more boats on the water.
If this is the best argument for a boycott of cca then I think cca will be just fine.
(I bet he's a Landrieu supporter!)

apparently you must have only read what you want to see. do some more reading, even on this site.
look into the profits vs what they do for us.
how about how they dont voice our conservation opinions when they have the power to.
how about grouping with big money and politics.
there was a time when they (CCA) meant nothing but good for the sportsman. the year isnt 1999 and they arent looking to be a voice with all our money.
YES, conservation would have a lot to do with less people fishing... take a look at florida.. theres places where they thought the snapper population was low, so they put a 35 year ban on fishing them!! not everything is black and white and you cant believe what will drost writes about himself for the public to read.

i feel like it hit a lot of random topics.
oh yea, oysters, weirs, shrimp, lower speck limits, braid.
nailed it

STAR money

Taking it year after year with the motto of

"Sit Tight "

Not me bruh! I support cca b/c they practice "colorblind conservation". This multicultural approach to fisheries management is designed to eliminate the racial component that has plagued conservation efforts for years. By lobbying equally for redfish, bluefish, white trout, and the historically frowned upon black drum, the effort is underway to eliminate descrimination on the water.



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But CCA wanted to stop the shooting of Redfish But still allow the shooting of Black drum???? Sounds racist to me????

Lmao

Dont forget the main rule of contests. If you want it you will not win it. Seems to me kinda like the lottery, a tax on the poor...

Like all of the other politicians, they started out with good intentions but got to the capital and people started throwing money at them. Greed took over. Now they throw out an artificial reef for "public relations" and say "look what we are doing."

They have been quiet on the snapper regs, tripletail, and took a back seat while the obummer admin wiped out all of the platforms in the gulf that had the only new coral growth in the WORLD.

Good luck if you entered...good eating if you didn't...

Redfish taste good. No reason other than that. When I fish or hunt I'm in full blown predator mode. If its legal and eats good it dies. It's just that simple with me. Others may have their own views.

Why not? MG's argument was exactly on point. CCA doesn't own tagged fish. If they want that to happen they need to build a really big F'n fish tank.