what do you think about Texas Law
 

The state of Texas is trying to move the trout limit down to 5 per person!
If this passes we will have a flood of texans moving in on our lake!
I think the state needs to pass a law that you are only allowed to catch what your state allows no matter the waters!

A texas guide should no be able to set shop in LA and catch more trout than the state he is from!

If texas drops there limit or lake will have to do so to keep the herd at bay

i thought you couldn't fish out a lake with a rodnreel? :help:

If that be the case, I could come there and take 25. That may backfire on you...Just sayin.

You can't but you can pressurize it so bad that fishing will suck due to higher boat traffic and more yahoo"s running around with out trolling motors!!

there was ZERO science behind dropping the limit on Big Lake from 25 to 15 in the first place. Some Texans post some pics of a bunch of sow trout and people got the red azz and complained. Nothing good comes out of lowering the limit on trout. These fish spawn prolifically and grow VERY fast. Texas does not have near the estuaries that 'we' have over in Louisiana though, so maybe there was some actual science behind that decision.

The limit was 7 in Texas for years...didn't increase traffic at BL much if any. Few Texans are going to drive an extra 100+ miles to fish because the limit goes down a couple fish. ;)

Texas is a conservation state, so the majority of our decent fishermen are catch and release anyway. It's mostly the Vietnamese and the weekend warriors that keep fish in TX. I can't tell you the last time I kept a trout.

not again......

What I'm saying is you can't exceed the state law of fish for that area... Ex. If the state law ids 5 trout... I can not go to texas and catch 25..... But if you state law says 5 then you can not exceed your state law and come to LA and catch 25!!!

what about states that don't have trout? catch and release only?

LOL...and every game warden in every state would have to know every other state's laws. Sounds like an Obama-esque law. :p

What if you are from the midwest where there is no limit on speckled trout?

Your 100% right.... I have stood behind this ! I do like the lower limits but its not necessary

Also..if texas wants to increase there trout population they need to drop the size limit from 15inch to 12inchs.... At a longer length you take more females out than males...you need to keep a same number ratio.... Male trout grow slower and females have already spawned by 12inch long! You can only hold what your estuary allows... You can stop trout fishing in texas for 5 years and you will not see a big change in numbers...once a trout has out grow the estuary or over populated it... They move !!! Texas is hurting more than helping!

I just wasted valuable time off of my life trying to decipher (look it up) what the hell you just said. I do believe that's the absolute dumbest thing I've ever read in my 26 1/2 years of existence. You should put yourself in a corner and beat your head on a brick wall until you realize what you just said...

You would follow state laws!!! Because your state does not hold a limit on saltwater fish

i almost threw up!:*****:

What don't you understand... Its easy!!! You should not be allowed more than your states allows!!! Why should texas be able to rape our waters. But we can't rape there... Because who wants to rape a 5 trout stringer..... You go on any weekend and our parking lots are almost half texas boats... Yes almost half

Jesus.

Because they pay for a license just like you.

If people from Texas wanna pay out the a$$ to come fish here its ok with me. Its just more money for our state to use on things we need.

X2!!!!! *****!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone go rape lake W!!!!!

O Hell never mind yall think that its ok for Texas guide to leave his State to come guide on our lake and take money from our guides and rape our resources that LA tax payers paid for!

I guess we will have another limit drop also!!! If you don't think it want happen watch.... We have more liberal fisherman on our lake!! They will push what ever they want!!!

hide yo wife hide yo kids, they rapin e'rybody up in herra:work:

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have you ever been out of Louisiana and gone fishing or hunting? I like to turkey hunt in Mississippi personally

There not spending money!! They are buying all fishing supplies from texas...putting gas from texas and using our launch! I would bet the adv. Money spent from a one day trip from a texan is less than 10dollors per trip!

:cry::cry::cry::cry: WHO CARES!!!!!

I guess I'll have to start doubling my trips to make up for it or go to La. more than I do now. That'll be a good excuse to use on the lil lady. lol

Most of the fishery here is in great shape esp. the Galveston Bay complex and Sabine area. The Matagorda area seems to be the area that is in question and getting this started. From what I've heard there's not a lot of evidence that supports a reduction. I know a lot of people release their fish, but I'm one that likes to eat fish and I go fishing to catch and keep them esp with my limited trips. I've also let a ton of em go that were legal to keep. I say let it stay at 10. I've actually been catching more and bigger the last couple years than I did when I first moved here in '02. It really hurts when I gotta let go a 14 7/8 incher when I'm keeping them. Got used to 25 and 12 when I lived in La.

I do along with a lot of other local people!

But when it gets over populated we can always spend our days burning gas and wrapping donuts on the water!!!

I'm sure you have scientific data from NASA to support this claim, right?:shaking::*****:

Why worry about something you cannot control? It is what it is....and I seriously doubt that it will happen. Does it affect you in your wallet? NO,your not a guide. You will always have something to cry about unless they put up a high fence to keep everyone out of lake dubya.

I've heard this through the grapevine that guides (I'm not sure if it Texas guides or not) are dropping waders off and going and picking up more clients at the launch and bringing them out and dropping them off basically not staying with the clients and doubleing their money...guys don't attack me here and I'm not agreeing with anyone....just stating what I've heard.

Rape 'em all !!!

I'm kinda more worried about the local people that go every day and catch limits when their freezers are full of fish than the guy that comes from texas on the weekend and catches 15 fish.

Well I have a good pic I will post when I get to my computer of a Texas numbered boat that dropped off 7 guys and left... Don't know if he is a guide or not..... I also heard that a local guide was dropping off several people then leaving and picking up more... I was told a name and I will not say anything until I witness it myself...

times is tough man, the economy is shot! Double your money, double your pleasure

amen! I can only eat so many fish, and can only give away so many fish. The people who go into their freezer each year and throw out fish/deer/ducks/etc. are the people that piss me off. Catch/kill as many as you want as long as it is going to good use.

Well I'm sure this is pointed at me and I have that right to keep my legal limit as many days a year as I like!
I also give back to our lake as I tag hundreds of trout a year and release them back!

I give all my fish to whom ever fished with me that day! As most can only fish a few times a year!

I also release just about everything over 5 that is not gill hooked! I fish for the sport and have lots of days I just throw them back in or tag em! But I will keep trout also !

actually W, you are not allowed to fill your freezer by law. There is a 2 day limit allowed in your house at anyone one time.

per person ;)

They better bring in the dna lab!!!! All looks the same to me!!!!!

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You honestly think a human could kill the trout population ANYWHERE along our coast with a rodnreel? Give me a break man thats ridiculous.

That's all well and good untill one of the waders he has STRANDED
out in the water has a problem . Then his azz is in court being sued for abandoning his clients. This is Louisiana and in the courts here .HE Loses.

I will be working on that next time I get home.
I will let you know the results at the end of Feb.
I might be doing some hog hunting in Texas in early Feb.,
so I doubt that I can kill the population in Feb., so, I will
try again in March.

NO I do not.....I have said this 100000000 times..........Its not the trout population its the over crowding

I am not a big lake "local" does that not give me or anyone else the right to fish there? :spineyes:

No but do you think its right for a Texas guide to drop off 11 guys ?? When his boat can only legally hold 6 to 8 max:confused:

So, what are ya trying to say?:spineyes:

I think you're worried about a boat that is too tall passing in front of you and you won't be able to see to potlick the next guy. It could be your subconscious working on you, ya know. That's your mind...Didn't mean to speak in terms you may not understand!:*****:

I agree that they need to lower our size limit to 12" and keep it at 10.I see know problem whatsoever with our trout population.Also believe that if they do change it there wont be anymore Texans on Big Lake than there are right now.There are a lot of piers here and I think that people fishing the piers have to keep the first 10 they catch for there (to me)is no real safe way to release the fish.Im not a guide,but dont guides from Texas gotta go through the state of louisiana to obtain a La. guide licence?

You keep changing the subject....now we are talking about coast guard regulations? LMAO :*****::help: