Pretty much the same as you @Zika.
Difference being, my wife likes fish, I tolerate em.
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
My kids are getting scuba certified soon. So once they get that cert I’d love to go on a lionfish meat haul.
That’s the best open season fish there is! Still haven’t tried 'em but heard they are delicious.
@Zika delicious and plentiful!
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.
About 100 give or take. Pretty fun docklight rod
Glad that deal worked out well for both of us!
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.
ive kept one red in past 3 years
it was gut hooked .
however them specs go home on occasion.
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.
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.
Only ladyfish
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…
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.
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.
Carp, it’s what for breakfast.
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
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.
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).
Mostly C&R but now that my youngest has got the fish’n fever, we tend to keep some at his insistence!