[eman]

There are a few here that can remember the old days.
My best trip ever was back b4 anyone worried about limits.
8 of us loaded up in a van and another 2 guys drove a pick up truck w/ the ice chest in the back.
Went to our favorite lil bank fishing spot . An old sand pit along la1.
rented a camp for 1 night and commenced catching specks on wobble rite spoons EVERY CAST FOR 1 1/2 DAYS. . We would fill an ice chest 2 guys would go fillet. next ice chest 2 different guys fillet.
We came home w/ enough ice chest of fillets to fill everyones freezer and sell the rest to pay for our trip. Everyone fished that way back then.
I'm figureing probably 16 or maybe a few more 48 qt chest at least 2/3 full of fillets w/ ice on bottom and top.
Now before all the bashin starts : This is a true story and it did happen every day all along the coast.
The area that we caught all these trout is now just a big exspanse of open water the camps are gone and so is the marsh. if you didn't know there was a sand pit there you'd think it was just a big flat.
And yes the trout are still there. You just have to have a small boat or kayak to get to them.
I am not proud of the slaughter that we did to our resource but back then it was the way we all fished . you counted a good trip not by how many fish but how many boxes of fillets.

BUT!!! Now. How can ANYONE SAY That a 25 fish limit is going to deplete the speck population? We would clean thousands of fish in a weekend . we weren't the only ones doing this, Everyone fished that way.
I'm Not against a limit of 25 fish at all. I'm just against the chicken littles that cry that 25 fish is to many and that we are killing ALL the trout.