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Matthew or anyone else in the know: What is this about?

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/salt ... id=4975762

At the moment the biggest part of this bs has to do with the grouper and snapper fishery along the SE coast from NC down to Key West. Our wonderful Pres. and congress have allowed the tree huggers to get to them and have totally shut down the grouper and snapper fishery along this stretch of the US. There is no harvesting comercially or recereationaly of any grouper and several of the major snapper species at this moment in time. No matter if u catch them while fishing for other species, you must throw them back. Even though u can supposedly pop the air bladders and stomach and they should make it, many times the fish dies and just floats off. This went into effect back in mid December and is in effect until May 1. However the bill is out there still that could shut this fishery down for a long time. In the short amt. of time this has been in effect it has had major implications on the on both fisheries. Many restaurants no longer offer grouper and snapper on the menu here and the ones that do have had to raise the price drastically due to having to import it into the area. What ashame; we can't offer locally caught fish in our coastal restaurants. Many of the commercial fisherman,tackle shops,and marinas have been drastically impacted by this bill already.Some of the commercial fisherman have gone under and others are just barely hanging on. This bottom fishery is way more consistent year round than the bluewater fishery for many of the states invoved especially during the winter months and with not being able to harvest these fish many people have quit fishing. I know of several caravans of people from SC who have gone to Washington to protest on the days the bills were talked about and voted on and none of them could say they felt that it did any good. It appears that this has the possibility of effecting many different fisheries from coast to coast and it appears that the public will have no say in the outcome which is a real shame. Seems like a great way to help help the unemployment rate as well doesn't it. You can't imagine just how many peoples livelyhood are being affected by this.

Thanks for the info. It seems right in line with a lot of Obama's anti-sportsmen policy and political appointments. F'in Democrats. I hope every one of them learn what it's like to be unemployed come next election.

On a MUCH lighter note, I just read your signature and laughed my ass off. I remember Langford saying that at Big Lake and I still think it's possibly the funniest thing I heard last year.

its for sale cheap-unless it squeals like it used to- sounds like we better catch em while we can-mabey bama needs to try some grilled carp

i think people of color prefer grennel/gar. woops did i say that?

Whats a normal sounding call cost a man these days. Not sure i can afford one of those squeaky ones.
Joe, yall's democrats must have a more sophisticated pallet(grennel/gar) than ours. Ours prefer those "sweet breams". The local roadside bridge fishery still seems to be on stable ground.

what you don't remember all those fancy flat's up the big lake rd. nice dig's fo-sho!! these fool's eat anything in missippi county.

i dont fish off the bridge but im pretty partial too them 'sweet breams' myself

Okay, I'll bite. This redneck has no idea: What's a "sweet bream"?

its a fish-namely called bluegill-they have a bit of a sweet tasting meat-where are you REALLY from-some northern place

Oh I know bluegills. I grew up on them and still consider them my favorite fish to eat. I've just never heard them called sweat bream before.

No, No, No. A sweet bream here in SC is those little tiny "tree" finger sized bream and smaller that most people normally throw back. However the local democrats here in SC call them sweet breams( not bream,add the s) and when asked why they are keeping the smaller ones they just say those is sweet breams. No bs.

if i get seasick on the big water i'll be beside em on the bridge but i'll stay a publican

hey old man ,how's that workout/weight-loss thing going for ya? u publican u!

im printing me aname tag so youn's know its me-seriously lost ten lbs so far

maaaaaaaaaannnnnnn think about two things,, the money its gonna cost u for new smaller clothes!! on the other hand, u should be able to reaaaaallly get ur swagger on or off whichever it is.

Im not sure but I believe thats swaggle.

SWAGGLE -joe most people have swagger to some degree- but few have SWAGGLE

heres a sweet breams story-my brother went to the local bridge to catch sweet breams for walley bait but only caught big redear-the only other person there was a large black lady who was catching sweet breams- in a last ditch atempt for bait he approached her and suggested a-trade his fish for hers- after looking in his bucket she allowed theys could sho nuf trades fish after the trade she told him theys was things about white folks she wasnt ever gona understands