i think big lake has it's own set of problems, too many guides, the invention of the bay boat, lower limits offshore & higher fuel = more inshore fisherman.......
but if these numbers are true, the 25 fish limit isn't hurting the rest of the state...
Last year Louisiana's estimated 443,000 licensed saltwater anglers brought home10.8 million speckled trout weighing a total of 11.6 million pounds. That total has been topped only once - in 2006 when the figures were 13.2 million fish at 14.4 million pounds.Those numbers are even more astounding when you consider they came the year after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a period when many anglers had still not returned to the water.
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