I agree

Louisiana has more area of inshore waters per licensed salt water angler than any other state in the lower 48. (~250 to 300 thousand anglers fishing ~4 million acres of water, works out to 10-15 acres per angler.)

Further, due to the high quality habitat of silt laid down by the Mississippi River over the eons and the nutrient loading of the Mississippi River (due to fertilizers from mid-West farmers washing down), Louisiana waters are about 4 times more productive than Gulf waters not directly impacted by the Mississippi.

The system is so productive and resilient that even Louisiana politicians and Texas conservation groups have not been able to screw up the fishing too badly yet, and Louisiana has escaped the consequences of mismanagement that greatly damaged fishing in places like Galveston Bay and Chesapeake Bay decades ago. However, the productivity and resilience that provided a 30-40 year buffer in ongoing productivity won't last forever if we allow the habitat to continue to be degraded.

It is a fact of wildlife management that inshore species are resilient and will quickly rebound to whatever population levels the habitat will support. Focus on lower limits and guarding the "stocks" is misguided and narrow minded because it ignores the reality that those stocks need to be fed from the habitat in which they live. It's like pretending that beef production means protecting the cattle from harvest while ignoring the necessity to protect the pasture to feed the beef. You can't grow beef with 10 cattle per acre.

Man you guys crack me up. "W" i have to agree with you on this one. Most folks that hire guides want a quik limit and get home.

Half of you on here want to be game wardens. Do you guys really think anyone keeps count of how many fish they are catching when the limit is 15/25 a person? Do yall keep track of your own fish when fishing for fun? Do yall put down your rod when you get to 15/25 fish, or do you keep fishing until you reach your boats limit? Yall sound ridiculous, who cares. All the fish go in the same ice chest on the boat.

Agree, but the law is 15/25.

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Word.

If it was that way most of my friends wouldn't fish with me.
Been quite a few 28 - 2 days.

thanks, I did not know that. but im sure you better have a receipt from the charter trip in order not to get ticketed

I don't understand why they are they making an allowance for a double limit like that? it seams to not be logical because if a limit is needed then its needed and weather I pay a guide or go on my own the amount I am allowed to keep should be the same.

I suppose its meant to help guides get more business or something but it makes no sense.

Three pages into a thread from W and no slickfish. Did he die? Where's W's other duck?

Thanks you !!! Not one person on here ever said

Hey I got my 15 fish I can't fish no more I'm going to watch

Lmao !!

Now I have buddies who catch 3 and sit back and drink beer !!

Heard he was still counting all the trout I been putting on my boat deck this week !!
Don't think he made it to my Sunday trip yet ! he had to ask Momma for more rocks to count