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Originally Posted by eman
Like i said in the post .This goes on all the time down there . The thieves (which is what they are) know the odds are in their favor on not getting caught.
I have watched a group of 4 guys catching reds in a canal that we were fishing keeping every redfish they caught. my son and i each caught over 100 reds a day and one of those days only had 6 keepers. All 15" reds so i know that they were keeping ileagal fish .Called ogt gave them discription of the guys the truck and the location and got no response.
i have seen a PU truck bed full of bull reds leave that same area at 2 in the am.
The outlaw metality is still alive and well.
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You and I both know that this time of year down there is when the reds are like catching fish in a barrel in some spots. Lil bro Goathead was down there a couple weeks ago and the small rats were the issue he had. He and his son eventually caught a limit, but said he saw others keeping way more than they should and he's sure some were too small. A lot of people definitely take advantage of it unfortunately. We have been in that situation before catching nothing but rats, but we always trow em back. You gotta put in the time and weed out the small ones so you can keep some legal ones. You would think that being on the side of the road would be easy access for the enforcement agents to do their jobs. I know anytime they check me, I'm legal and let them know I appreciate their service no matter how they approach me.