Re: Catching trout gotten harder?
Posted: June 25th, 2018, 9:07 am
Y'all have it so much worse over there - and get a much higher propensity of environmental impact as well. I've seen many guides, as you say, go to C&R - and thankfully most of them are fly so the clientele falls inline with that move.CaptMikeSavedow wrote:There are fewer Trout and Redfish here on the east coast, plenty of pressure from all directions on the fish, more boats and fishermen every year, continuing open commercial hook and line Seatrout harvesting for 5 months a year with 75 Specks per commercial fisherman a day, enormous loss of most of our seagrass beds in the non tidal areas to algae blooms , not to mention more fishing guides than ever. Several Mosquito Lagoon guides have gone to catch and release only over the past few years to try to protect what is left.
The recreation (& guide) will continue to get crushed by the commercial guys. And the greater strain there are on resources and availability of them, it seems the more lobying power they have to maintain limits and increase length of season.
