it is a shame....but in all honesty, personally, i hate black drum...but that's just me though... _________________ Trophy whitetail and exotic hunts on some of the finest ranches Texas has to offer, www.mcoutfitterstexas.com www.baffinbayrodandgun.com
So this could eventually affect all fish that consume things such as crabs and small scallops, clams. That would be redfish also. I guess the drum would really be hurt if we had a huge cownose ray migration because the eat anything with a shell. _________________ I LIKE MINE FRIED.
Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 479 Location: Corpus Christi
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:07 am Post subject:
Myself and friends have also noticed a decline in the trout fishing in the Baffin Bay complex, so I doubt it is just affecting the Black Drum. _________________ CARPE DIEM
Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 3260 Location: Flour Bluff/Kingsville
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:21 am Post subject:
Any major fish kill is of concern. Do not particularly care for hardhead, but if they started dying off in large numbers, that would be a red flag that something is wrong.
Joined: 12 Jun 2008 Posts: 243 Location: Corpus Christi
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:39 am Post subject: Limits
Unfortunately bag limits seldom if ever go up. It sounds like a change in bag limits could help here if this is truely overpopulation. Drop the trout limit to 5 and bump the drum limit up to 10 or 15. This would give people (especially the guides who spend alot of days on the water) an incentive to fish for them.
Drum fight harder and taste better than trout anyway.
Just my 2 cents...no science here so don't jump on me.
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:42 am Post subject: Re: Limits
KingKilla wrote:
Unfortunately bag limits seldom if ever go up. It sounds like a change in bag limits could help here if this is truely overpopulation.
That was a viable option a few years ago, but one of the local "conservation" groups fought it, ...... so the limits remained the same, despite the data showing that drum populations were growing.... perhaps too fast.
And yet im still concerned that i take too many drum out of the areas i fish =/....I wish there was a way to know how many drum are really in the area because it seems like a outstanding number....
I hope this all turns around...ill feel better when the drum run comes around and baby crabs show up in the water like '11...brown tide seemed to kill all of that this year...
Drum are looking better though than they were earlier in the year, starting to get fatter... _________________
ltorna1 wrote:
I can just imagine a prehistoric nomadic version of AcousticTennis, padding around in a dugout canou with long unkempt hair (not much a stretch lol), catching drum on some 3000 BC version of fishbites.
Acoustictennis - its your fault dude! You're slipping! Drum overpopulation? Not a problem for mr. fishbites - step up your game - get out there and get some drum! _________________ ...if my boss ever finds this forum I'll be unemployed...
No rain, no freshwater, no freshwater no shrimp or blue crabs, and all that equals no drum fish food.
Droughts effect everything even the fish in the water......and the Brown Tide doesn't help things.
Joined: 13 Aug 2009 Posts: 4659 Location: The First Sandbar (a.k.a. Flour Bluff)
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 1:41 pm Post subject: Re: Limits
KingKilla wrote:
Unfortunately bag limits seldom if ever go up. It sounds like a change in bag limits could help here if this is truely overpopulation. Drop the trout limit to 5 and bump the drum limit up to 10 or 15. This would give people (especially the guides who spend alot of days on the water) an incentive to fish for them.
Drum fight harder and taste better than trout anyway.
Just my 2 cents...no science here so don't jump on me.
No rain, no freshwater, no freshwater no shrimp or blue crabs, and all that equals no drum fish food.
Droughts effect everything even the fish in the water......and the Brown Tide doesn't help things.
ST
Double BINGO on the freshwater. _________________ I LIKE MINE FRIED.
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