East Coast Report - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

PapaDave · 12-15-2011, 01:52 PM

Say, I grew up in Florida! Southern part, Miami down to the Keys. Looks like a nice haul on the Yellowtail, and is that a mutton snapper? Nice one. Used to do a LOT of scuba back then, spent my teenage years under the water. Jewfish are the eqivilent of our Black Seabass, they can reach 2000lbs.

There are areas in southern FLA that do have restrictions, and limits, and sizes. And from what my brother tells me, they have helped. When I was out there long ago I would watch many guys use a cast net to catch schooling baby mangrove snappers, and the mahi mahi were being decimated by folks that would fill several trash cans with babies. By the time I gat sent here (was in the Air Force) you couldn't find any snapper, and you were lucky if you found an adult mahi mahi, and forget the snook, people were harpooning them from the flood gates during the spawning season. The regulations implimented, and enforced, saved several species of fish from disappearing.

12-15-2011, 01:52 PM	#18
PapaDave Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Menifee, CA Posts: 1,475	Say, I grew up in Florida! Southern part, Miami down to the Keys. Looks like a nice haul on the Yellowtail, and is that a mutton snapper? Nice one. Used to do a LOT of scuba back then, spent my teenage years under the water. Jewfish are the eqivilent of our Black Seabass, they can reach 2000lbs. There are areas in southern FLA that do have restrictions, and limits, and sizes. And from what my brother tells me, they have helped. When I was out there long ago I would watch many guys use a cast net to catch schooling baby mangrove snappers, and the mahi mahi were being decimated by folks that would fill several trash cans with babies. By the time I gat sent here (was in the Air Force) you couldn't find any snapper, and you were lucky if you found an adult mahi mahi, and forget the snook, people were harpooning them from the flood gates during the spawning season. The regulations implimented, and enforced, saved several species of fish from disappearing.