Official Trout Limit Survey. Please Vote.

[SaltwaterJunkie]

IMO keep 5

[finaddiction]

I vote for keeping only 5. I have witnessed the benefits of this reduced bag limit in Port Mansfield. Just 3 - 4 years ago, we would catch plenty of redfish but the trout were not as plentiful and downright hard to find. Now we are catching plenty of trout and the average size is increasing. I mean honestly, keeping 5 trout and 3 reds is a great stringer. How much more do you need in one day? Now what I don't like down there is that the possession limit on trout is also 5. If you are down there for a couple of days and you can only have 5 trout in your possession - I don't like that.

[El Capitan de No Fish]

Originally Posted by finaddiction

I vote for keeping only 5. I have witnessed the benefits of this reduced bag limit in Port Mansfield. Just 3 - 4 years ago, we would catch plenty of redfish but the trout were not as plentiful and downright hard to find. Now we are catching plenty of trout and the average size is increasing. I mean honestly, keeping 5 trout and 3 reds is a great stringer. How much more do you need in one day? Now what I don't like down there is that the possession limit on trout is also 5. If you are down there for a couple of days and you can only have 5 trout in your possession - I don't like that.

Gotta say I agree with this.

For guys who fish a lot and keep your 10 every time you catch it, what do you do with all that fish? Do you give some to friends/coworkers or does a good amount go bad? Do you keep 10 so you'll have a cool pic?

[A1]

10

[24Buds]

voted.

[SSST]

I voted 10, but i'll be making my first trip to Baffin soon, that trip may get me on the 5 fish bandwagon, we shall see.

[netboy]

Originally Posted by wickedwader

Every person I have talked to that fishes the LLM has claimed the fishing has dramatically improved since the limit went to 5. Of course that is pretty unscientific but to a man/woman...they all say the same thing.

I gotta agree with this. I have a freind that fishes Port Isabel and he has seen a dramatic improvement in the quality of the trout fishery down there. He fishes a lot so he rarely even keeps his 5. He says nowadays a typical 5 fish limit that you see strung up at the dock will weigh more than a 10 fish fish limit before the change.

[justletmein]

Originally Posted by finaddiction

I vote for keeping only 5. I have witnessed the benefits of this reduced bag limit in Port Mansfield. Just 3 - 4 years ago, we would catch plenty of redfish but the trout were not as plentiful and downright hard to find. Now we are catching plenty of trout and the average size is increasing. I mean honestly, keeping 5 trout and 3 reds is a great stringer. How much more do you need in one day? Now what I don't like down there is that the possession limit on trout is also 5. If you are down there for a couple of days and you can only have 5 trout in your possession - I don't like that.

Aren't they recovering from a freeze a few years back?

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[Wompam]

10, mother nature monitors the bay system just fine.

[Wompam]

[QUOTE=justletmein;4058950]Aren't they recovering from a freeze a few years back

Freeze didn't affect the trout much down there, I think the record rainfall the llm had several years back has more to attribute to the population boom than anything else, just like the upper coast this year.