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    Im hearing that the limit may be going down to 2. Its way overdue. 10 was absurd. Id rather it be 3. A six fish day on the water is plenty. 4 seems a bit slim, but Id rather see it 2 than 10.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GMAC View Post
    Im hearing that the limit may be going down to 2. Its way overdue. 10 was absurd. Id rather it be 3. A six fish day on the water is plenty. 4 seems a bit slim, but Id rather see it 2 than 10.
    Saw that in the paper the other day. Sounded like a done deal.

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    They have been studying this population for awhile now. Look for a regional trend of new regulations to come through as its not just SCDNR working on this.

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    NC has been closed,
    When gigging, I see lots of flounder and 85% of them are undersized.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ecu1984 View Post
    NC has been closed,
    When gigging, I see lots of flounder and 85% of them are undersized.
    My observations fishing are similar.

    The larger/legal flounder are mostly females which is especially concerning why this section of the population is seemingly absent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SouthernWake View Post
    My observations fishing are similar.

    The larger/legal flounder are mostly females which is especially concerning why this section of the population is seemingly absent.
    I thought any flounder over 12-13 inches were All females but I may be misremembering what I heard.
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    I dont know how it was done. For all I know that weird bastard that determined it's gender licked it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GMAC View Post
    Im hearing that the limit may be going down to 2. Its way overdue. 10 was absurd. Id rather it be 3. A six fish day on the water is plenty. 4 seems a bit slim, but Id rather see it 2 than 10.
    3 would be perfect. Maybe we will see some growth in the population in about 5 years? My dad and I were having the “I miss how it used to be” talk the other day and we were talking about how it’s a cycle. Deer, doves, fish... For example deer come up and he said “there was a few years we had some good ones down there, then a couple bad years, last two years they come back”. Hope this cycle theory holds up... If not we all gone know how the injuns felt when there wasn’t no more Buffalo.
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    A fish bites 2 times a day, right before I get to the water, and as soon as my boat gets back on the trailer.

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    Hasn't it been stated that they do not believe gigging has contributed to the decline? I don't see how this can be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by b35w View Post
    Hasn't it been stated that they do not believe gigging has contributed to the decline? I don't see how this can be.
    It certainly hasnt contributed to their population growth.
    Selectively harvesting females. I used to gig a lot when I had more time but been a few years. I also have gigged way more than I have ever caught with rod and reel.


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    Quote Originally Posted by b35w View Post
    Hasn't it been stated that they do not believe gigging has contributed to the decline? I don't see how this can be.
    I don’t know what they said, but if I get to the ramp and I see a certain feller loading his boat up I won’t even bother with the flounder that day. He’ll clean the creek out in a minute. No hard feelings towards the guy, just know you’re pissin in the wind fishing for flounder after he spent the night on the water.
    A fish bites 2 times a day, right before I get to the water, and as soon as my boat gets back on the trailer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by b35w View Post
    Hasn't it been stated that they do not believe gigging has contributed to the decline? I don't see how this can be.
    I don’t think you could pin the decline on gigging but as islandguy stated, it can’t help.

    My thoughts are environmental factors driving it. Some studies have linked rising water temps driving less female development.
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    Atrazine? Birth control infused pee? Pesticides?

    The rivers are full of it all. The white bass may have been the canary in the coal mine, but their population collapse went largely unnoticed...

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    Quote Originally Posted by SpottailSpecialist View Post
    3 would be perfect. Maybe we will see some growth in the population in about 5 years? My dad and I were having the “I miss how it used to be” talk the other day and we were talking about how it’s a cycle. Deer, doves, fish... For example deer come up and he said “there was a few years we had some good ones down there, then a couple bad years, last two years they come back”. Hope this cycle theory holds up... If not we all gone know how the injuns felt when there wasn’t no more Buffalo.
    All species go through population cycles by design. We certainly have an influence for sure as you alluded to regarding bison. However sustained, static and growing populations are a goal and product of human influence and management. And I'm a big fan of it. but Earth is gonna Earth whether we want it to or not. I like flounder and hope any efforts we put forth keep em around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JABIII View Post
    Atrazine? Birth control infused pee? Pesticides?

    The rivers are full of it all. The white bass may have been the canary in the coal mine, but their population collapse went largely unnoticed...
    Oyster, shark and collard man said they find levels of a certain pfizer product in sharks on the reg. Stiff competition out there in the blue water.

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    Yup...

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    Gigging used to be something you needed a mentor to ever get started. There just weren't many people doing it. I can remember gigging one scorching, steamy hot night in Charleston Harbor in my tighty whiteys. There was never anyone on the water at night. We had it all to ourselves any night we went. I have since been out on nights where it seemed like a boat rigged with stadium lighting every few hundred yards on every bank you checked.

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    I loved hearing my grandfather talk about putting pitch pine knots in a candle lantern to go striking at Pawleys. When the water cleared in the fall he said the black folk would walk the south Pawleys creek in a line during the daytime and strike them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hogg View Post
    I loved hearing my grandfather talk about putting pitch pine knots in a candle lantern to go striking at Pawleys. When the water cleared in the fall he said the black folk would walk the south Pawleys creek in a line during the daytime and strike them.
    very cool.....
    My grandad used to tell me he remembered when the Gullah from Daufuskie would row wooden skiffs with the tide up the May, sell fresh seafood and produce then row back through Bull to the island.
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    Sounds like the Mosquito Fleet Scott.
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    Most of the flounder I catch are 14 7/8 inches long. As soon as they hit 15, they're outta the water and in a cooler.

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