P-cola_Native

Does the new reef fish circle hookrule apply to sabiki's? We use the heavy dutysabiki's for catching trigger fish and other small fish for use as live baits around the wrecks, the way the new rule reads I think that is now illegal.

jamessig

This law is going to be very difficult to enforce. As long as there are no other boats within a few miles of you, who's to say what gear you're fishing. If you were to do something illegal, you'd have to be pretty stupid to keep doing it when you noticed that another boat started running straight at you. It would take at least a few minutes before they arrived which would give plenty of time to remove any bait from your sabiki, stow it, and break out another rod rigged with circle hooks. This is all just hypothetical, of course.

Oh, and using "other small fish" that have size or bag limits is also illegal now.

countryjwh

have they put a size limit on the endangered hardtail yet.

Salt Life

Spoke to an FWC officer that gave a ticket to someone using strips from a sheepheads belly

bonita dan

Not sure how that would work. The FWC was going to look into the use of non-stainless steel hooks for snapper fishing but I didn't hear them say anything definate about there use out in Panama City. Sabikis were primarily designed for bait fishing,not for catching snapper or trigger so theres no way it would hold up in court against ya. Then again I never did win any of my court cases:doh

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whipper snapper

Yes, the proposed rule will go into effect april 1, the new hardtail regulations are as follows:

Bag limit of 4 per person

min. length5"

max. length6" with 1 fish over slot.

TOBO

Those are some damn funny hardtail post! Not to derail, sorry.

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P-cola_Native

It's not derailing, it's only highlighting how stupid the fisheries management laws are becoming.

I'm thinking the circle hook rule is going to be enforced about as hard as the treble hook laws are pushed inshore. Have any of y'all ever had an FWC officer check to see if you are fishing with treble hooks and live bait inshore? I know I have not ever had one check my hooks.

Just One Fish

I hear alot of people on this board complaining when someone keeps an oversize red fish but I alos here alot of ya talking about geting around other rules... dumb or not its the rule. follow them or not I dont care just stay one one side not both follow the rules or dont....

sorry ive been known to bend a few rules but I also dont chastize someone for bending other rules.

sorry if I upset anyone

its just how I feel

P-cola_Native

I don't brake any rules, but I do openly deplore rules that I think are stupid.

The regulations pertaining to redfish make since because they are a viable candidate for catch and release. Red snapper are not.