Has this been discussed yet? Changes to length limits, anterless season for some counties, no gar fishing at night, etc. I'm trying to post the link.
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- An experimental 20-inch minimum antler spread restriction regulation in Lynn County.
ironmanag said:
About time they start opening more doe seasons.
We are sitting at about a 7 to 1 doe to buck ratio.
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- Statewide: Between one half-hour after sunset and one half-hour before sunrise, no person may take or possess an alligator gar by means of lawful archery equipment or crossbow.
I really wish they would consider a no minimum size limit. Sure, there's times you catch a stringer of 20" fish but more often how many 14.3/4" fish get killed putting together a limit of keepers. At five fish per person, I dont think we could ever hurt the population.Troutslime said:
I don't like the 5 fish limit. I was hoping they would change the limit to the first 10 trout you catch, regardless of size. To me, the guides would be doing more shrimp and popping cork trips, instead of croakers. This almost guarantees the 10 trout would be smaller than fish typically caught on croakers.
tlh3842 said:
Problem with that is it would be pretty much impossible to enforce that. Limit restrictions is the easiest thing for a game warden to check/enforce.
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. At five fish per person, I dont think we could ever hurt the population.
LiveOak said:
Have you seen the projected growth of the Texas population for the next few decades?
If you want your children and grand children to catch speckled sea trout, this 5 fish limit is the correct move.
Ummm, no. There is a reason for the minimum size limit and it is to protect the juvenile (reproductively immature) female trout population. Survival of released fish is way higher than most people think. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1577/M05-181.1 Every undersized fish released has a percent probability of spawning, the reproductive potential of a fish put in an ice chest is zero.CS78 said:I really wish they would consider a no minimum size limit. Sure, there's times you catch a stringer of 20" fish but more often how many 14.3/4" fish get killed putting together a limit of keepers. At five fish per person, I dont think we could ever hurt the population.Troutslime said:
I don't like the 5 fish limit. I was hoping they would change the limit to the first 10 trout you catch, regardless of size. To me, the guides would be doing more shrimp and popping cork trips, instead of croakers. This almost guarantees the 10 trout would be smaller than fish typically caught on croakers.