Amberjack - read it and weep

[cmdrost]

i've been preaching this for a while, but no body seems to really care. This is a domino effect that will continue until the red snapper fishery is healthy again. People stop catching snapper, they turn to a.j.s or grouper, now those are in decline, people turn to triple tail or tuna, and those are getting hammered too and severly under regulated. The whole Gulf Coast Council is a joke.

[mikedatiger]

Originally Posted by cmdrost

i've been preaching this for a while, but no body seems to really care. This is a domino effect that will continue until the red snapper fishery is healthy again. People stop catching snapper, they turn to a.j.s or grouper, now those are in decline, people turn to triple tail or tuna, and those are getting hammered too and severly under regulated. The whole Gulf Coast Council is a joke.

If you want to read an interesting post on triple tail go on over to the sportsman - was a bashing going on hot and heavy over lack of a limit. Letting some poor b-stard have it!

This is an interesting discussion though - do you take what you can just because that's what the limit is, or do ya let em swim? I don't know the answer, but I imagine only a matter of time before this spreads to everything. They're trying like heck in TX to get the speck limit to 5!

[cmdrost]

Originally Posted by mikethetiger55

If you want to read an interesting post on triple tail go on over to the sportsman - was a bashing going on hot and heavy over lack of a limit. Letting some poor b-stard have it!

This is an interesting discussion though - do you take what you can just because that's what the limit is, or do ya let em swim? I don't know the answer, but I imagine only a matter of time before this spreads to everything. They're trying like heck in TX to get the speck limit to 5!

Well LA is really the only state on the Gulf Coast without a limit on triple tail. Talk to the older guides both here and over on Ponchatrain and they will tell you they've witnessed a huge decline! Dudley has impossed a limit on them for his clients and encourages everyone else to do the same.


PS - I wonder if that discussion on LAS got anchored because I couldn't find it?