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• Offshore32234 Posts: 223 Officer

  July 2013 #2

  I believe they posted this about a week ago, so it's probably right on the 30 day time limit. One weekend in the peak of hurricane season many thanks!

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• DoradoDreamin Posts: 2,105 Captain

  August 2013 #3

  Offshore32234 wrote: »

  I believe they posted this about a week ago, so it's probably right on the 30 day time limit. One weekend in the peak of hurricane season many thanks!

  
  Gotcha. I've been traveling and this was the first I saw of it. Was hoping someone had the scoop on why they reduced it from last year.

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• aquadoc Posts: 63 Deckhand

  August 2013 #4

  The scoop is they want us to support other country's and only buy/eat tilapia.

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• aquadoc Posts: 63 Deckhand

  August 2013 #5

  Or fish the gulf....they just announced October 1'st the gulf is getting another 21 day season.

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• Thefourseas Posts: 320 Deckhand

  August 2013 #6

  In the gulf you don't need any fishing gear. Just ride out and pick the dead ones off the top.

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• Edgewater220 Posts: 488 Officer

  August 2013 #7

  Caught this guy trolling in 75ft of water hit a surface bait they are starving to death!! Maxxed out a 30# boga.

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  Edgewater 220IS (Dan)
  Mercury 250 Verado
  Minn Kota I-pilot
  2 Simrad NSS 9 evo 2
  1 Simrad NSS 7 evo2

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• jacqueo Posts: 1,272 Officer

  August 2013 #8

  I am SO thankful that the FWC is giving me this GREAT birthday gift! Thankfully they are giving us the weekend, since my actual birthday is the 20th. lol Sooo gracious. lol

  Yes, as a matter of fact I DO fish... like a girl. [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

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• Phinatical Posts: 864 Officer

  August 2013 #9

  I went back and forth with them on the 30-day thing and basically they showed me a loophole they have where they can enact it at any time and not have to give the 30 days.

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• Fishin Blue Water Posts: 219 Deckhand

  August 2013 #10

  A couple of items to note: the powers that be say that we overfished out allocation during last year's 6 days (that were all but unfishable due to weather). The commercials sector under fished theirs. The only reason there is a season at all is the commercials not catching theirs.
  
  The model they use accounts for a very hefty amount of snapper interaction (read this as release mortality) over the winter months, a time period that anyone who actually fishes knows there are few trips offshore due to weather and when virtually all troll instead of bottom fish (when they can get out) due to closures to grouper, snapper, Beeliners and sea bass. We need to be pounding them with the fact that there is almost zero interaction with snapper in the first few months of the year. Those fish that they say are dying due to wintertime release mortality would be added to what we can catch when they open the season.
  
  Brian

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• Optimum7 Posts: 351 Deckhand

  August 2013 #11

  or they want you to burn 3 times the gas to get to the spots!!!!

  aquadoc wrote: »

  Or fish the gulf....they just announced October 1'st the gulf is getting another 21 day season.

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• Captnathanstuart Posts: 689 Officer

  August 2013 #12

  Looks like ill be heading to the gulf, ill be out of town for the atlantic opening. Figures

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