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Bow Fishing regulation!!!!!! Same as gill letters in late 80's.

Is the limit factor a result of federal counts being seriously off reality?

It’s easy for clueless fisherman to be mad at good fisherman. They get jealous and want to limit other peoples fun. Old as time.

Quit whining you get more than Texas!😆

Just put deck hands out of work 😢

In Florida your aloud 1 fish 18 to 27 inches and it's the same gulf were saving them so yall can keep them. It the same gulf so if you can keep 5 it should 5 anywhere in the gulf

Does Louisiana stock reds like how TN/NC stock trout etc? I love catching redfish and pomp’s, saltwater fishing is awesome

In Florida the bag limit is only one per person, 18” - 27"

Great job

Glad to hear it Louisiana fisherman keep way too many fish period.specks,reds ,sheepshead.Honestly you will be glad in a few years

I see them all the time in Galveston bay shallow areas over oyster beds.

lol like talking to his 5 year old kid lol

Come to NC then complain about your limits...

Oceanfront states shouldn't be allowed to export to interior states. They have catfish and crappie they should eat.

This applies to Everglades City and the Florida Keys!

It’s 1 in the Florida panhandle

Oil!!!! Kills!!!

Spent four days in Lafitte for the 4th. Had some of the best redfish action in awhile. Had 16 keepers. One undersized throw back an six or seven bull throw backs

Bro I don’t wanna hear it we can only keep 3 specs 15-20 inches in Texas and 3 reds a day and 1 bull a year lol

Similar stuff to what’s going on in North Carolina with Flounder. Just because we are still catching them doesn’t mean the population isn’t overfished or that recruitment isn’t bad

I'm glad LA is reducing its bag limits. As a Texan the limits over there have always seemed egregious. There's even talk here of going from 3 to 2, and I support that. Our 2021 freeze was particularly detrimental to the fishery, and I think proactive measures are needed to promote a faster recovery. Anecdotally, the flounder season was closed from NOV-JAN in Texas and I think the flounder fishing overall has gotten much better. I seldom used to catch them as a plastic chunker for reds and trout and now I regularly catch one a day which is a lot for me. My hope is that these reductions in bag limits will mitigate the need for more extreme measures.

4 is plenty for goodness sake, hell 2 is tons of meat to eat

They should not allow bowfishing for game fish period. If you going to allow it it should be limited it from April to end of September when the ducks start to migrate to our coastal waters.

Go to Texas. It'll make you more grateful. Texas is tripping.

I enjoy watching your videos and using your tips on the Outer Banks, glad to see your doing good buddy.

ohhhhh what a shame that we are keeping the big breeders with good genetic in the waters.... Yeah sound crazy too me to be complaining about something that's literally there for the betterment of the fishery. As Some one that grew up in Louisiana but have fishing literally around the world (thanks navy) i can say we have always kinda been behind most states in the Quality department for big inshore species. One that really stands out to me is FL where it felt like they had no small trout at all. I crushed my PB multiple times with in the 3 years I lived there. So i 1000000000000000000% support way stricter limits because i feel so man people take way more then they need and that natural resource is not just for you its for everyone.

Come to Florida so you can only take ONE per day per person 18-27". No tears for yall here.

One of the worst attacks on the redfish population is illegal gill netting in the waterway canals. Gill netters getting back in the marsh areas and blocking the whole width of the canals. They then sell them to restaurants, etc. I've had days when I could easily catch 20 or more redfish in a day back in the canals / marsh, then finding out gill netters had been there since the last time I went fishing. Next trips would result in 0 - 5 per 8 hour day. By the way.. I wasn't keeping my 5 most trips. This also was killing the Spec fishing as well. Stop the poachers and reduce the limit more, as you suggested, or the Redfish fishery is gone!

So is it fair to me to travel 3 to 4 hours to fish and then travel 3 to 4 hours to get home for 4 fish

The limit was changed because you have a government controlling your food supply. When we start blaming a person with a fishing pole, that is catching food to eat, to feed himself and his family, it’s over. When everyone realizes the problem is not the fish population, we’re well on our way to recovery.

Very intriguing insight. To add, I think it’s a misnomer to call it bow fishing, more like bow hunting for fish…..trapped in a pond usually. As well, the pogey boats might only be killing 2 percent of total reds annually but more like 20% plus of bull reds killed annually. Great piece!

I’ll always throw back more than I keep. I love the look on people’s face when I get back to the launch with my sight stand and when they ask I tell them the number of reds I caught. Then they’re even more shocked when they see no ice chest because I’ve tagged them all and threw them back.

I think it is great that the wildlife and fisheries is making a conservative change for once in our state. Louisiana has been known for years as a quantity over quality state with regards to hunting and fishing. Now I hope this trend will spill over to deer hunting and freshwater fishing. It’s time that we stop taking a back seat to the surrounding states.

I agree that a 3 fish limit 18_24 inch slot is the way To go I will follow this limit regardless others will do so

Your assessment of The Freshining is spot on. I have been fishing Hopedale since the mid 90s, and the marsh in that area is MUCH fresher now than it was 10 years ago. There are ponds that are choked with grass that used to not have any grass in them. My observations have mirrored yours.

I never keep more than one. One five to seven pounder is more than enough for me to eat. Anything else is gluttony.

Well said. Thanks for putting in the work to get this information out there.

I'm an offshore boat for over 40 years and every time I seen a Pokey boat raise his nets I passed through a school of dead red fish as long the eye could see.

When y'all have poor fishing you can blame the gov of la

FL is 1 red and 5 trout. It's bullshit fishing has become a joke here from poor management and the government doesn't do shit when we have spills from Mosaic cause a red tide and whip out the entire Tampa bay

I don't salt water fish anymore but they could have went 5 fish limit and made slot 16-24 anything bigger doesn't eat as well

Nobody needs that many fish all you need is one fish for a meal and then the rest gets thrown in the freezer and then from the freezer it goes to the garbage and nobody's going to tell me that frozen fish taste the same as fresh it doesn’t and all these pictures on Instagram and don't tell me Fish and game it's not looking at those pictures with piles and piles of fish look at the red snapper 20 pound fish egg bearing females that's the breeding stock there killing them by the hundreds nobody gives a damn anymore about the fishery

When I was a kid in Florida redfish were pretty rare. The state closed the harvest for years. Between that and banning commercial netting in state waters, the reds made a comeback.

I'm in Florida and in my region you are allowed 1 redfish per day 18-27 inches in length. They need to do a limit like that to really make a difference I feel like. However due to all of the factors in you mentioned the change will be minuscule at first and for a long time it will be slow.

I'm in Florida and the limit is 1 per person between 18"-27". Spotted sea trout 15"-19" 3 per person. Mangrove Snapper 5 per person. And many more fish that the size and bag limits have been reduced. Offshore fishing bag limits for grouper and snapper are laughably low and none of them are in season at the same time. The rules change so often I can't keep up with them. They about have it to the point going fishing isn't even worth it.

I could agree on 2 per person if we could still keep 1 bull red. I know plenty of people who feed there whole family with one bull and 2 smaller ones. I personally believe we have a bull red problem because they are everywhere in south Louisiana and I think they are over eating. You can catch 25 bull reds a day at the causeway but none under 28.

In Texas I blame the lack of blue crabs on the states over stocking of redfish.

Need to limit bow fishing to a few weeks . In the year. The pogey boats need to have a limited season and pay a restoration fee for the redfish they will kill. There also needs to be a study done on the pogey harvesters and how many breeder reds and other sport fish are being killed. These boats if they are causing major kills may need to be put on a limited season.. as far as the bow fishing,again they kill a small red they must keep it and count it in the creel limit. I know I’m probably going to get blow back but I believe that needs to be done.

Back in rhe day the limit was limited because of the blackened redfish explosion.

Our 16 inch population dropped because of 2 consecutive years of near 0 hatch because of low salinity. That gap has already been filled js