Of course it’s not in the online edition and I left the Outdoors section of yesterday’s Florida Today newspaper at my parent’s house, so I’ll do what I can to remember this stuff correctly, and I’ll try to remember to either edit this for pertinent information tomorrow when I’m at my parent’s house or bring the section home and do that here, but anyway…
Can’t remember what lake it was, but Florida FWC officers responded to a tip on Friday and caught ~two~ people with something near 1800 fish that they had decided to keep… mostly panfish, a few undersized bass, etc… from out of state, stealing OUR fish like that…
People, I don’t care ~what~ your fishing regulations back home are, I follow your state’s regulations when I go fishing there, you better damn follow ours while you’re here, because if ~I~ find you with that many fish, I’m gonna do more than confiscate your equipment and give you a fine… As if your legal limit on panfish isn’t enough… 50 per person per day and you’re allowed to have two day’s limit… that’s freakin’ 200 fish right there and if that ain’t enough for your fish fry you better uninvite some people…
Yeah, can we say “long pig”? Come on, all together now…
Makes me so MAD! And it’s people like that who have made the state put major limitations on harvest of softshell turtles and the like… dangit, even if you’re doing a big fry, you don’t need more than a couple, people, now they’re saying all we can take is one per person per day?! And there’s still gonna be the closed season on ‘em too?! Come on, one turtle isn’t enough to contribute to a fish fry… I don’t need TWENTY like the limit was, but I sure need more than one…
Basalcell, limit’s going down for commercial collection, too, keep your eyes open and be careful… I don’t go after turtles too often, but they come in their own bowl for a reason… mmmmm
Now… to pick an answer….. and yes, for whoever it was, it ~was~ more of a rant than a question, but deal with it, if you’re going to gripe about questions that aren’t questions, there’s plenty of them out there, and as you can see, this one didn’t irk the regular contributors to this category, so , as my bait says to the fish…
BITE ME!
Charles, yep, either the banjo minnow or flying lures… not sure which, the article didn’t say. *smirk*