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fishmasterfred
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 Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 1:22 pm Post subject: Bay Fish Census.... |
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Having had a day off i've been online for the most part and have perused through a ton of pages and i must say there are a TON of catches proudly displayed ... NOW while not every fish was kept and some were released by are there any good guess-timates as to how many fish the Bays hold year round?
Any fear of fish numbers declining and not being able to be replenished?
How old is a 15" Spec? 20"
Age on a 18" Red? 28"?
Curious minds wants to know.... |
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speckled.trout
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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Let's see if this might help...
The growth rate of spotted seatrout differs between males and females, with females growing faster. Approximate lengths at various years of age are given in the following table.
AGE MALE FEMALE
1 9" 8"
2 14" 17"
3 17" 20"
4 18" 23"
5 18" 24"
6 19" 25"
7 19" 26"
somemore info you might want to read
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishboat/fish/management/hatcheries/prblhistory.phtml
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Central Scrutinizer
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: Bay Fish Census.... |
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| fishmasterfred wrote: | | ...are there any good guess-timates as to how many fish the Bays hold year round? |
I've had a plan for years to dump bucket-loads of jello into the bay, and when it sets up, we could slice through it and FINALLY get that all elusive, accurate count...... But then, all the fish would be dead, so it's purely an academic exercise.
| fishmasterfred wrote: | | Any fear of fish numbers declining and not being able to be replenished? |
Once I count all those jello-bound fish, they can't reproduce any more, so yea, again, I may have not thought this one all the way through. (TPWD management of the fish has been pretty good so far, so I for one don't have any pressing "fear")
| fishmasterfred wrote: | | How old is a 15" Spec? 20" |
~ 1-2 years old at 15", 2-3 years old at 20". Females are typically larger than the males.
| fishmasterfred wrote: | | Age on a 18" Red? 28"? |
About the same for the 18" red, ~ 1-2 years old. A 28" red is ~ 3-5 years old. Same for the sex differences with this species also. |
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pinsfish
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Central Scrutinizer really enjoy all of your input. Thanks!! Interested: what do you do for a living? Biology somewhere I'm sure.
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rick sanders
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| What about the 22-23 in croaking male trout I have caught? |
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Central Scrutinizer
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| pinsfish wrote: | | Interested: what do you do for a living? |
Only the Shadow knows (and a few people here on the site  ). I have to keep a low profile, and that's not a tangential reference to SB.....
I can tell you that I am a "professional" Weighmaster, and do many, many tournaments a year. If you have competed in some of the larger (or smaller, for that matter) local ones, you may have had your fish come under my inspection. Hence the Name - Scrutinizer.
And yes, the "Thing Fish" album cover is a direct result of me being a major Frank Zappa fan. |
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ironmanstan
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:19 am Post subject: |
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| rick sanders wrote: | | What about the 22-23 in croaking male trout I have caught? |
female that wants to be a male. Or you bent over an cut one and thought it was croaking. 
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Tyler
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| rick sanders wrote: | | What about the 22-23 in croaking male trout I have caught? |
I've got one too in fact was destined to go to Doc Mckee for an otolith check to see how old it was. Somehow it got lost in Captain Billy's bait freezer. 
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