red fish question

[BowSlayer]

It's 3 fish. If you use your tag it counts against the 3. Try to read it however you want but this is what is enforced. If you feel like getting a lawyer and fighting it you may win

lol, wrong

[glen]

I will tell you this keep your 4 and fight it. Unless things changed this last year it is 3 redfish a day with or without tags. Watched a guy get a citation at Froggy's for trying to pull the bonus fish as his fourth.

[BowSlayer]

I will tell you this keep your 4 and fight it. Unless things changed this last year it is 3 redfish a day with or without tags. Watched a guy get a citation at Froggy's for trying to pull the bonus fish as his fourth.

There's nothing to fight. If he got a citation for using his bonus tag in addition to his daily limit he must have tried to use it prior to using the one on his license.

[Tmag]

Nice bull. Congrats

[captainsling]

Some people just don't get it. Reread the part where he said he kept two legally tagged fish.

[Txfire409]

you can have 4 total if you use the oversize tag. 3 for you daily bag and one tagged oversize. you do not receive the bonus tag until after you have used the first one.

[BowSlayer]

you can have 4 total if you use the oversize tag. 3 for you daily bag and one tagged oversize. you do not receive the bonus tag until after you have used the first one.

Read the posts above yours... that has changed. You can buy the bonus tag any time now.

[coker737]

Daily possession is three reds 20"-28". In addition to that a person can keep one over 28" by applying the annual red drum tag. A person can then get a bonus red drum tag. So in total a person can keep two redfish over 28" a year if tagged properly.

Ray

[BowSlayer]

It's funny that this should come up. My son and I are going down to try to catch some this weekend and he asked me if he could keep an over-sized one. I told him he would have to use the tag on his license. Then I got to thinking and he doesn't have a license...he's only 15. I was wondering how to get him an over-sized redfish tag...now I know I can just go buy him one. Might as well get myself one too while I'm there.

[AtTheWall]

Remember this if you were to keep an oversized Red w/o a tag you will have to pay the state the cost of raising said fish - this can be 30 - 40 years and this can be VERY costly!!!! We were fishing in Port A and everyone was catching big Bull Reds and when I was walking out on the jetty there were two guys with poles out and when I went to duck under their lines I noticed no lines and price tags on their reels?? I asked em bout it and they informed me they were Game Wardens and they were writing people up for keeping oversized Reds and one of em told me that each Redfish kept that night was averaging about $3,000 to replace plus a fine plus confiscation of vehicle and tackle!!

I'm wondering if those rods and reels were decent quality models...to be used for another day....maybe on a day off perhaps?

My son and I got into the redfish blitz on the Port A jetties one October. I sat and watched a few outlaws catch oversized redfish, quickly running down the rocks with each fish caught, and carried to a guy, who was inside a panel van without any windows. Two guys on the jetties, hauled probably 4 -5 bullreds down, over the course of an afternoon, working with a couple of guys inside the van, at a jetty side campground, further way from those catching bullreds. I suppose the guy in the van was working on the fish and hiding the carcasses inside the van in various ice chests?

Several women and a couple of guys sat in lawn chairs, under a canopy and tended several surf rods, with several ice chests and such in a common fish camp setting. If and when a Game Warden walked up, they had a legitimate front, with licenses and the few fish they legally caught within reach, with the van shut tightly behind, with illegal redfish inside.

On another trip to PINS, Drifter and I got hard into a massive school of bullreds. Every cast made was hooked up on a huge bullred. This went on literally for 3 hours and we caught and released well over 20+ bullreds. As this crazy scene played out, 27 miles below the pavement end, a pair of Gamewarden's had pulled up at a distance, and glassed us a bit. I couldn't tell if it was a GW or not at the time, way up the beach to the North of us but, we were in a catch & release mode of having fun (I don't keep bullreds) when they eventually drove up. I was hooked up on yet another bullred and had my wallet on the front seat of my truck. I simply told the GW to open my wallet, my license was inside the cash area and he can check out my ice chest, in the back of my truck as well...I was a bit too busy to address it myself LOL!

They were amazed, for what ever reason, we didn't have any fish in our coolers and commended us for being catch and release guys. I thanked them for the kind words, their service in the Game community and letting me stay engaged with the bite. They wanted to join us BADLY LOL! Then further off to the South they rolled, looking for bullred violators. In all of the years I've fished PINS, this was the first time I've ever had a GW check my license and cooler on the strand.

[BowSlayer]

Why would they thank you for being catch and release guys? Is it frowned upon to keep and eat a fish? Heck that's why I fish, to eat them!