R/L..
A few questions if I may?
I am on the Gulf Coast of Florida near Ft Myers. We have proposed regs in place that might shut down grouper fishing for 3 months next year and also a reduced bag limit from 5 to 3 fish per angler.
Needless to say it has a lot of people up in arms, especially the Charter Captains, who BTW are held to a higher standard with equipment needed to fish. No 2 bass rule down here if you get my drift. They also need Federal Reef Permits ($$$) to fish in Fedral waters.
Lets face it down here rule of thumb is air temp = water depth. So if it's 90 + degrees air temp, running 80-90+ miles during the summer is almost a lock for Red, Gag, Scamp, Black Grouper, and ARS. You want what you catch it's even deeper and further. With cost of fuel and the reg changes I have just about had it.
First where do you fish out of and how far off do you run for these types of catches.
I am seriously either thinking of packing fishing entirely or relocating to N/C. No BS it is that bad down here and what I had mentioned is only off shore, same ridiculas regs changes are being proposed for inshore fishing also with even stronger regs and closure for snook.
This post edited by baywatch 08:06 AM 04/30/2008
