Harvesting Fish?

Pretty much the same as you @Zika.
Difference being, my wife likes fish, I tolerate em.

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We keep them once in a while. A couple redfish a year snook now and then. I really don’t eat fish unless it’s fresh dolphin. I’m taking all of the dolphin if we go offshore or any fresh blackfin

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My kids are getting scuba certified soon. So once they get that cert I’d love to go on a lionfish meat haul.

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That’s the best open season fish there is! Still haven’t tried 'em but heard they are delicious.

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@Zika delicious and plentiful!

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I only keep what is getting eaten that day or next unless it’s sheepshead, triple tail, mangrove, they are too delicious to pass up. I like redfish but don’t keep many. I have yet to keep a snook. I buy a tag but never keep one. :grinning_face:

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About 100 give or take. Pretty fun docklight rod

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Glad that deal worked out well for both of us!

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C&R
I kept 2 redfish last year to eat that day. Zero trout, just dont care for them.
I might need to try Sheepshead, just never messed with them.

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ive kept one red in past 3 years
it was gut hooked .
however them specs go home on occasion.

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I keep Trout regularly and seldom keep a Red. My wife is an excellent cook and can do a lot with fish but we’ve come to the point that a Blackened Grouper sandwich for $20-$24 dollars isn’t better than a Blackened Trout Sandwich. So we eat them at home and with guests once or twice a month.

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My dad and my wife love trout. I’ll keep 2-3 every now and again. I never keep a redfish unless it’s a necessity. Flounder or smaller black drum will go in the cooler if we catch some. If I end up offshore during snapper season, those will come home with me.

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Only ladyfish :zany_face:

It’s tempting to harvest when you see the prices of meat at the grocery store, but we almost always let them go to raise babies…

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I C&R most the time, but I did harvest a couple grouper by spear in the keys this spring, and harvested my first snook in probably 15 years. If I want to have a fish fry I pull out my 12’ mullet cast net, and if anyone tells you that you cannot freeze mullet they don’t know what they are talking about.

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99% CPR. Flounder and Tripletail have much greater chance of going for a boat ride with us but since we
don’t catch them very often, we’re still not coming home with any regularity. I don’t really care for redfish unless it gets gut hooked or in the gills. Occasionally, I’ll box a mid-sized speck.

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Carp, it’s what for breakfast. :rofl:

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I keep plenty of fish. My family likes flounder, sheep’s and trout. With that being said, if I’m on the water a few times in a week I will keep fish one trip. The rest are trips to keep my sanity. But I don’t buy fish at the store anymore. If I’m quoting my wife “why did you even get the boat that’s made for fishing”. So I have to provide :rofl::fish:

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My dad is passed on now, but I am slowly taking on his perspective. He believed it was somehow wrong to go fishing (few times a mo) and not keep a few for dinner. That said it was trout or flounder. He grew up on a farm, so that may have had something to do with it.

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I keep as many as it takes to convince my wife that it’s worth my time to fish to “help us out”.

In all seriousness, we both like fish and keep a few slot fish for dinner (that is if I can catch any).

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Mostly C&R but now that my youngest has got the fish’n fever, we tend to keep some at his insistence!

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