A year later, how do you feel about the Texas trout limits?

[slayr]

Wrong. It is rights taken away... slowly but surely we'll be Florida with fishing seasons. It's coming and you're cheering it on. We've gone from 10 trout to 3 in 5 years. We'll be at zero before you know it. And I hardly keep any fish, but hey keep cheering 👍 you guys trip me out... full out conservative men asking your daddy to take away your rights to keep fish.

lol….I think you’ve labeled me wrong. I’ve watched this same scenario with ducks unfold right in front of us over the last several years….which why folks are screaming for reduced limits and seasons.

We will just agree to disagree here.

[BRUTE 23]

lol….I think you’ve labeled me wrong. I’ve watched this same scenario with ducks unfold right in front of us over the last several years….which why folks are screaming for reduced limits and seasons.

We will just agree to disagree here.

He has to label you what he wants to justufy his bs.🤣

[glen]

As far as guides- I can only speak for the ones I see daily. There are two that will only run 1/2 day “trout trips” and one guy that is running 3 hour trips and doing 3 a day. Can’t blame any of them take advantage of the situation presented to you.

I can not remember ever keeping 10 trout to take home but it makes me boil that TPWD took that away. 5 trout limit- Now a temporary 3 fish limit that will become
permanent. Next freeze and it will be catch and release or a “fishing” season like in Washington State. Soon we will be thanking TPWD for expanding our fishing days to 3 months instead of two weekends like red snapper fishing has become

[kyle1974]

I have kept 10 fish a day....a bunch of times. we had a lot of fish fry's with friends over the years. we gave fish to family members. probably lost some too from freezer burn, but 90% of it was eaten. was I standing in the free government cheese line? no. but I like eating fish and so does my entire family so there's that.

this isn't directed at anyone on here as a disclaimer, but I am sick and tired of the "conservationists" next step ALWAYS reducing limits. always. when it was 10.. "just keep 5!!!" then it was 5 .. "Just keep 3"... I'm going to get ahead of the curve and advocate "just keep 1 and 1/2". I'm a true conservationist and can divide by 50%!

fish are a renewable resource and the bays have a carrying capacity. it wasn't that long ago that TPW was encouraging people to keep their limit of black drum from baffin bay because the fish were emaciated. did they change the limits? of course not. that would take work.

I'm a meat haul advocate and want to take advantage of the RENEWABLE resource we have.

[glen]

Kyle. I 100% support your stance. Im
very fortunate to have instant access to the resource whenever we want it. I do have people come visit that want a “meat haul” and I try my best to help out even if it means keeping my limit everyday for a week before they get there

[ultrastealth]

I hate it. Period!

[kyle1974]

Kyle. I 100% support your stance. Im
very fortunate to have instant access to the resource whenever we want it. I do have people come visit that want a “meat haul” and I try my best to help out even if it means keeping my limit everyday for a week before they get there

maybe it's irresponsible, or viewed that way, but memories of me and my boys out loading a box is something i'll have forever. I have a lot of great memories too of big fish we released but I'm not going to say our "best" trips were the ones we didn't catch anything! LOL.

the BEST trips, the most memorable trips were the ones we absolutely hammered them on.

[BigJimmyRustler]

It's a temporary band-aid fix to a permanent problem. They just did the easiest thing to feel good about the situation and then said "look we did something!"
If they really wanted to fix things they'd have been worried about real issues like grass & oysters vanishing and the unbelievable amount of dolphins & sharks

[DUKFVR]

It's a temporary band-aid fix to a permanent problem. They just did the easiest thing to feel good about the situation and then said "look we did something!"
If they really wanted to fix things they'd have been worried about real issues like grass & oysters vanishing and the unbelievable amount of dolphins & sharks

And TOO many guides.

[walker1983]

I would do away w/ the minimum size limits all together - set the daily bag limit at whatever is sustainable - and let people keep their first 3, or 5 or whatever is sustainable...


Also - get more regional w/ the bag limits by bay system it if necessary i.e Baffin or Rockport may need to have different daily bag limits than the northern bay systems.

[Quackerbox]

I wish I had the stringer Pic of 39 trout (we miss counted) from LLM back in the day. I caught 4 fish over 25 that day. With one being 30.5 and a 31. The 31 was the last fish strung. We ate em all.

[Mexico]

I have kept 10 fish a day....a bunch of times. we had a lot of fish fry's with friends over the years. we gave fish to family members. probably lost some too from freezer burn, but 90% of it was eaten. was I standing in the free government cheese line? no. but I like eating fish and so does my entire family so there's that.

this isn't directed at anyone on here as a disclaimer, but I am sick and tired of the "conservationists" next step ALWAYS reducing limits. always. when it was 10.. "just keep 5!!!" then it was 5 .. "Just keep 3"... I'm going to get ahead of the curve and advocate "just keep 1 and 1/2". I'm a true conservationist and can divide by 50%!

fish are a renewable resource and the bays have a carrying capacity. it wasn't that long ago that TPW was encouraging people to keep their limit of black drum from baffin bay because the fish were emaciated. did they change the limits? of course not. that would take work.

I'm a meat haul advocate and want to take advantage of the RENEWABLE resource we have.

Bunch of GD pansies on here amigo.... they sure fry up nice 😅

[Mayhem]

Bunch of GD pansies on here amigo.... they sure fry up nice 😅

Who is that guy in the pic with you?? He looks familiar.

[Mexico]

Who is that guy in the pic with you?? He looks familiar.

Haha... I miss that guy!

[friscopaint]

I wonder what the percentage of fish taken by anglers vs natural causes, freeze, red tide, the hated flipper (would love a day on the water with an AR), etc......most migratory birds, and even quail and pheasants, it's more environmental than hunters. I live near Lake Texoma and no way the anglers put a dent in Stripers vs mother nature with floods and shad die offs and some lakes have algae blooms, wiped out PK years ago and not sure if it ever recovered but droughts hammered it too.......most likely any "study" TPWD does is an educated guess and not sure how educated.....and the percentage taken by anglers vs nature is most likely completely a guess on their part. Need to open a season on flipper and let the Asians have at it, put an export tariff on them.....