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Congress needs term limits but not nearly as bad as bureaucrats do. These are all regulations not laws. They need to be challenged. The problem is you will have to go judge and jury shopping and it will take 20 years to litigate it. Then the only winner will be the lawyer.
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ARS are never going to have a daily creel limit, too valuable to the commercial fishing industry, they won't give up any of their quota and there will always be a quota. I'd rather possess tags and be able to keep the 20+# fish we catch than trying to get them back to the bottom or throw a dead fish back. One tagged fish per person per vessel a trip or something similar such as cobia, minimum length etc. You'd have some idiots out there that wouldn't tag fish but eventually would be caught and made examples of. Most would abide the rules just like deer and turkey or slot reds, take a few and use their tags judiciously. It's not an ideal solution but it's a heck of a lot better than anything we currently have.
Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal? I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
You might take out a dozen before they drag you from your home and skull fuck you to death. Marsh Chicken 6/21/2013
telecheck?
Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
Dive and voiceover by Goldfinch and Glover. Video lags from the voiceover but gives a little information on what goes on over these reefs. No grouper, BSB, few B-liners, a couple of hogs, few pinkies. Only thing they don't seem to like are ringtails.
Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal? I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
You might take out a dozen before they drag you from your home and skull fuck you to death. Marsh Chicken 6/21/2013
Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.
Black Sea Bass is going to be next………
Here is a question which I think is going to get some major pushback but hear me out. Would you be a proponent of a full bottom fishing closure for a specific time frame throughout the year to allow for an open season on everything?
Think about it….we close deer, turkey, ducks, dove and almost everything else to manage the population and birth/hatch their young we can definitely argue that the ARS population is healthy but I’m not sure we can say the same for other species (grouper/sea bass/etc). I think I would rather have that scenario than what we have now.
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Including commercial guys?
You don’t start killing some ARS, there won’t be any BSB. Places we use to catch 20”+ fish regularly are barren. Holes I had the produced 16”+ fish are empty. Plenty of ARS. Places I’d catch small gags and scamp don’t produce. Grouper is closed from Jan 1 until April 1, not helping. Most of these reefs see limited pressure in the winter anyways. And there’s far more hard and live bottom out there than the charts show coupled with guys that don’t know how to read their bottom machine either. Pressure may affect some places but my spots rarely see a boat and have those issues.
Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal? I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
You might take out a dozen before they drag you from your home and skull fuck you to death. Marsh Chicken 6/21/2013
I agree with you on the ARS and that they need to be harvested or it’s going to decimate the other fish population. I’ve seen the same as you on my spots. Granted, I don’t go often but my spots where I could bank on loading up on BSB and trigger fish haven’t produced worth a crap in the past few years. They are either being eaten or run off.
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I wouldn’t put what I would and wouldn’t do pertaining to fishing regulations in writing for the world to see but that’s just me. The best thing to do on red snapper weekend is stay home, everyone with a 20ft Sea Hunt is out ready to pull up next to you.
Meh that’s just my general attitude toward any law put forth by idiots I don’t know, who pass laws that are unreasonable.
If I ever decided to ride around with my seatbelt off, with a snapper sandwich, and a weed cookie, the law can kiss my ass.
Fine me.
Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.
This has been the biggest thing I noticed, I had a few spots we never caught ARS at, no other pressure that I ever knew of, catch anything you wanted. Since the snapper rolled in, it has been barren, no BSB, B-liners, triggers, they have essentially turned into wolves of the sea.
Curious…. What do you all think these areas (non artificial reef areas I guess particularly) were like before they were fished extensively and left undisturbed? Completely natural, what do you think the makeup of the fish population looked like?
I find a lot of these discussions interesting. Kind of like the Santee delta. Manipulation by man created these areas that are abundant with wildlife. Where I hunt in Canada…. All field hunts hunting over leftover grains etc that accumulate the birds. Nothing about it is really natural.
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Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal? I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
You might take out a dozen before they drag you from your home and skull fuck you to death. Marsh Chicken 6/21/2013
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