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Post by crazedpaul on May 13, 2021 13:12:01 GMT -5
Wooo Hoooo I think Snook and Trout will be opening around june 1st on the west coast down to sr64! Let me edit i was wrong its Redfish and trout .My kid just let me know i was wrong LOL...
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Post by Flatsrunner on May 13, 2021 13:26:11 GMT -5
Wooo Hoooo I think Snook and Trout will be opening around june 1st on the west coast down to sr64! Snook most likely will not open till Sept 1 2021, but trout and reds will open hopefully on June 1st with a different bag limit.
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Post by crazedpaul on May 13, 2021 13:37:13 GMT -5
Yes its red fish and trout on june 1st... My bad... this one was almost slot...a little over 26
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Post by crazedpaul on May 13, 2021 13:42:32 GMT -5
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Post by carlf on May 13, 2021 13:55:05 GMT -5
Yep: FWC will make changes in SW Florida catch-and-release area The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will make changes to snook, redfish and spotted seatrout management in the area of southwest Florida where they are currently catch-and-release only. As a reminder, snook, redfish and spotted seatrout were temporarily made catch-and-release only in this area after these fisheries were impacted by a 2017-2019 severe red tide. Starting June 1, 2021, the following changes will take place: Pasco County and Tampa Bay: • Normal regulations will resume for snook, redfish and spotted seatrout in all state waters in Pasco County, Pinellas County and Tampa Bay. • These regulations are for all state waters north of State Road 64 in Manatee County plus the Braden River but not including Palma Sola Bay. Sarasota Bay through Gordon Pass in Collier County: • Snook and redfish will remain catch-and-release through May 31, 2022. • Spotted seatrout harvest will resume with a six-fish recreational vessel limit. Commercial harvesters will also be held to the recreational three-fish bag and six-fish vessel limits. • These regulations are for all state waters south of State Road 64 in Manatee County including Palma Sola Bay through Gordon Pass in Collier County but not including the Braden River or any tributaries of the Manatee River. The current catch-and-release measures for snook, redfish and spotted seatrout in all waters from Pasco County through Gordon Pass in Collier County remain in effect through May 31, 2021. “The Commission understands the significance and importance of this fishery for the southwest region. You can hear a lot of diversity in the public stakeholder positions on this issue but I think we found the right path as an interim step,” said FWC Vice Chairman Mike Sole. “It is going to be important though, in my opinion, to consider long-term management of snook and redfish.” Under normal regulations, snook will open to harvest on Sept. 1, and seatrout will be under new, more restrictive regulations that took effect in 2020. A new statewide stock assessment was just completed for snook and one will be completed for redfish in 2021. The Commission might consider statewide regulation changes as part of the long-term management of these fisheries. Learn more about regulations for these species by visiting MyFWC.com/Marine and clicking on “Recreational Regulations.” View the Commission meeting presentation at MyFWC.com/Commission by clicking on “Commission Meetings” and the agenda under “May 12-13, 2021.”
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Post by Flatsrunner on May 13, 2021 15:32:57 GMT -5
Yes its red fish and trout on june 1st... My bad... this one was almost slot...a little over 26 Nice Snook, I had to release a 25" red Tuesday, Could almost taste it on the grill..
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Post by crazedpaul on May 13, 2021 23:16:51 GMT -5
Thanks it was a fun fish on a 3k reel.. My kid has been stomping me these days i need to get my game on.. But He use's live bait and lures. I use almost nothing but lures...I wish they would make the slot limit smaller like 18-25 anything smaller or bigger could swim free . I remember keeping smaller snook when i was young they taste better. Then the Big momma's can go free...We fished tonight from Redington to past Passagrille...Nothing but Jacks etc . But we did see some Really Big Snook Mateing well one Big one and some small ones... My Son spotted them i was like what are they doing? He was Like What do you think??? Hahahah One was around 40" She had a tail as big as 2 hands fanned out...They were not interested in anything...
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Post by seabird on May 14, 2021 5:01:29 GMT -5
Wooo Hoooo I think Snook and Trout will be opening around june 1st on the west coast down to sr64! Let me edit i was wrong its Redfish and trout .My kid just let me know i was wrong LOL... Will be good to get back into some wade fishing again.
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Post by carlf on May 14, 2021 6:30:02 GMT -5
I agree on the slot limit thing for snook. Let the big ones go, eat the middle size, which are most likely males anyway.
On a similar note, why dont we have a different size limit for Tarpon, swordspine and fat snook? Given the difference in the anal fins & dorsal fins, they should be relatively easy to tell apart. And they dont appear to get as big as "regular" snook, most probably never even reach the slot limit. Maybe I'm giving the average fisherman too much credit on fish ID??
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Post by shadowxmas on May 17, 2021 13:06:41 GMT -5
Wooo Hoooo I think Snook and Trout will be opening around june 1st on the west coast down to sr64! Snook most likely will not open till Sept 1 2021, but trout and reds will open hopefully on June 1st with a different bag limit. I heard Dylan Hubbard on his fishing segment this past Friday morning on Fox 13 say that snook, trout and redfish would revert back to the original rules re closed seasons and size and bag limits. Dylan also specified the areas that this would apply.
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Post by Flatsrunner on May 17, 2021 15:20:18 GMT -5
according to fish rules app. you can keep only 3 trout 15"- 19" and one of those can be over 20" ,reds are still catch n release south of SR 64 until 2022.
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