Originally Posted by mr crab (Post 684307)

Feel free to release your fish if you want. I'll eat most of the ones I catch tho. I am not interested in buying my fish from h.e.b. just like I don't buy meat from them. My family takes great pride and expense in the fact that ALL our red meat , pork, fish, and most of our shell fish are personally harvested, butchered and cooked by us. That is a hunting and fishing heritage and lifestyle that my grandfather instilled in me as a young man. And one that was instilled in him by his father and so on. It is my responsibility to pass these values and and heritage on to my children. Yet this lifestyle is now considered "greedy" or labeled as a "game hog" or "resource raper". I will not condone this attitude. Why make me and my family feel guilty for harvesting what we will consume. Don't get me wrong.. it's not about "feeding my family" we spend far more money in our hunting and fishing pursuits than we would spend at a grocery store for the same amount of fish and meat. But that's not the point...this is our heritage. And when these limits on legal harvest keep decreasing it makes pursuing that lifestyle much less rewarding and will no doubt deter future generations from keeping those traditions alive. It's like I posted earlier about the snapper....lower the limit enough and most people won't be interested in spending the time or money to catch them. Now there is an overabundance of snapper that far less people than before are interested in pursuing and that overabundance is hurting other marine species(grey triggerfish by eating the eggs) You'd think we would have learned by the failure of that model. But the CCA continues to support lower and lower bag limits....Have you heard that the trout limit just dropped to 5 from Freeport to Brownsville? I see you are a fellow Texan...

Originally Posted by hchol (Post 684336)

Oh yea and all you CCA haters out there...if it wasnt for CCA you wouldnt have a fishery left bc the commercial sector would control it....smells like a bunch of hypocrites in here...

Originally Posted by hchol (Post 684336)

Oh yea and all you CCA haters out there...if it wasnt for CCA you wouldnt have a fishery left bc the commercial sector would control it....smells like a bunch of hypocrites in here...

Originally Posted by awhellnaw (Post 684338)

why the hell yall out in this pain in the neck sun, when you could be fishing on this here nintendos. ya caint eat em but they sure is pretty. and they give u points too son. HOW MANY POINTS YOU GOT MR HCHOL??? HENRYBOY??????

Originally Posted by MathGeek (Post 684339)

Not a hater here. GCCA did some good things in the 1980s and 1990s.

In the last decade, the organization has taken a turn for the worse and focused too much on angling restrictions, higher license fees, and contests to bring boatloads of cash back to TX for real conservation and restoration projects.

Calling that out is not hating or hypocrisy, just hoping to inform the public.

By your logic, one must hate blacks if one wants to cut welfare.

Originally Posted by hchol (Post 684342)

You just completely discredited yourself with that last comment...

Originally Posted by lil bubba (Post 684343)

I am no biologist by a long shot. I grew up shrimping and fishing in the marsh longer than i can remember. imo it soon won't be about limits up or down or big fish to worry bout being caught. There won't be any marsh left to support fish. As the marsh erodes away there is less place for the fish and shrimp forage to grow so you will have less and smaller fish. I don't think it takes a biologist to figure that out. It was said by mr. horst years ago that as our marsh begins to erode we will have a fish bonanza , then you will see it decline within a few years because it won't be able to support itself no more. Looks to me he knew what he was talking about. I think if all this fuss was put into fighting coastal erosion we may buy a few more years for what we have. You can increase or decrease limits all you want but at the rate we are losing marsh your kids or grandkids aren't going to have nothing anyway. rite or wrong just my opinion.......

Originally Posted by hchol (Post 684336)

Mr Crab...the irony of your arguement is that if you want your heritage to continue you better start conserving the resource! Or your grandkids or great grandkids wont know it bc the feds will control it and restrict it. Learn Self preservation or the government will do it for you. Im all for leberal limits and i dont buy any of my fish from HEB either....

Oh yea and all you CCA haters out there...if it wasnt for CCA you wouldnt have a fishery left bc the commercial sector would control it....smells like a bunch of hypocrites in here...

Originally Posted by hchol (Post 684336)

Mr Crab...the irony of your arguement is that if you want your heritage to continue you better start conserving the resource! Or your grandkids or great grandkids wont know it bc the feds will control it and restrict it. Learn Self preservation or the government will do it for you. Im all for leberal limits and i dont buy any of my fish from HEB either....

Oh yea and all you CCA haters out there...if it wasnt for CCA you wouldnt have a fishery left bc the commercial sector would control it....smells like a bunch of hypocrites in here...

Originally Posted by lil bubba (Post 684343)

I am no biologist by a long shot. I grew up shrimping and fishing in the marsh longer than i can remember. imo it soon won't be about limits up or down or big fish to worry bout being caught. There won't be any marsh left to support fish. As the marsh erodes away there is less place for the fish and shrimp forage to grow so you will have less and smaller fish. I don't think it takes a biologist to figure that out. It was said by mr. horst years ago that as our marsh begins to erode we will have a fish bonanza , then you will see it decline within a few years because it won't be able to support itself no more. Looks to me he knew what he was talking about. I think if all this fuss was put into fighting coastal erosion we may buy a few more years for what we have. You can increase or decrease limits all you want but at the rate we are losing marsh your kids or grandkids aren't going to have nothing anyway. rite or wrong just my opinion.......

Originally Posted by "W" (Post 684354)

HCHOL

Name 1just 1 thing the CCA has done to improve fishing in Big Lake as per there mission statement

I got rest of day

Originally Posted by lsuriot (Post 684332)

Louisiana’s Top 10 Speckled Trout
Weight Angler Location Date

8. 10.65 Jason Ellender Sabine Lake March, 2013

Originally Posted by schol (Post 684357)

Pulled the gill nets out of the water, that's a tough one "W"

Originally Posted by lsufish (Post 684341)

Is that a coherent sentence?