It's time; to head Outdoors!

{%image_id=18965%}While it is in the middle 40-'s outside the water is expected to take a warm turn for a week or two. Come and join this me week. Maybe I will see you on the water. {%image_id=18384%}{%image_id=18383%} Redfish Do whatever you can to keep the number of redfish at one per person for Florida waters. Two per person is just asking for trouble. Spotted SeaTrout In general, an uncescessary overkill by most anglers is taking spotted seatrout over 20-inches. The law is; one can be kept over 20-inches per angler per day. Never will the west coast of Florida have a trophy fishery again unless the one fish over 20-inches is changed to an inside slot measurment only. Years ago, the marine biologist under the Florida Marine Fisheries Commission recommended a one or two fish bag limit. Everyone complained and one month was chosen in the northwest area to be closed; February is not a great month to save the big females. They have mostly been caught up by then. {%image_id=18378%} I just remember the good old days when there were thousands of trout and I suppose a lot less people fishing for them because everyone kept all the fish back then. Maybe the bottom line is there are too many anglers and too few fish or is it that the trout stocks are as many as the good old days, instead caught and divided by a much huger number of anglers? {%image_id=18380%} And how many trout does a person need for a fresh meal? Why not just threw them all back except for a few for the dinner table. {%image_id=18382%}