cuppednlocked
Ten Pointer
Or you’ll need to wait until June 15th.
Get your Speckled Trout Before 5pm Friday
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TH80
Ten Pointer
Goes out Friday at 5pm. I think we all saw this coming
Starfan
Eight Pointer
If they don’t all die, we will have epic trout fishing next fall. Now how to tell my 77 year old pops that he can’t keep trout anymore.
HotSoup
Old Mossy Horns
I knew it was coming...
odie408
Twelve Pointer
What would it hurt to wait a few more days and at least let a few fish be salvaged. They close it before the fish float and just let them all rot. But that's the fish cops for you.
odie408
Twelve Pointer
NCDMF, Starving fishermen since 1976.
HotSoup
Old Mossy Horns
Saltwater fishing in NC has been don't ask, don't tell for a while...
If you know...you know
FowlHunter09
Four Pointer
It was already coming, they were just looking for a reason. It’s been in talks about changing the limit and/or making it slot sorta like they did red drum. I’m sure they been watching the weather past few weeks waiting for a hard cold like this to try and not get all the blame for doing something about it.
Buxndiverdux
Old Mossy Horns
If current trends hold true....(when the closure lifts) The mullet marshalls will cut the recreational limit, and increase the commercial harvest when they open it back up.
Fisheries management is crooked as hell. They are abusing the resource for money in their pockets. The people making the most money don't wet a line, don't wet a net, don't even get on the water. Just count $$$$. Recs and Comms are just pawns to the politicians.
HotSoup
Old Mossy Horns
Yep and they have turned recs and comms against each other in the process
odie408
Twelve Pointer
They're up. Pick up 2 100' from my front door. I now know what is for supper. 
Sportsman
Old Mossy Horns
A lot of dead trout. I have a feeling this die off is going to be a significant one. Hope I’ lm wrong, but it’s not looking good.
odie408
Twelve Pointer
I don't think you're wrong, I think it's going to be bad Saturday and Sunday when all the snow has melted and run off.
Wyle1
Spike
I have followed your posts here from when I joined the site and have great respect for you as a trout fisherman. I’ve always thought the cold stun events have been a way bigger factor on trout populations than any “overfishing “ from anglers as our commission wants us to believe. It’s been quite a few years since I remember a cold stun event like this and it seemed to definitely hurt the population then and being that the trout numbers have probably been the best the past few years I’ve ever experienced in my lifetime and you’re probably right that this event will significantly hurt the population being that there are as many fish congregated in waters that are affected. I hope there are enough that survive that we can continue to have decent numbers to fish even though I believe there will be tighter restrictions from the commission. Only time will tell.
HotSoup
Old Mossy Horns
We had a good run though.....been a few years
oldest school
Old Mossy Horns
oh they have done better that that. recs versus comms has always been a deal.
they got recs versus recs going big time now. CCA (catchers) versus those that want to eat their catch.
In the past after one of theses stun die offs have they closed down until June? I missed that part in the past.
Well that sucks. I wasn't expecting a closure until mid-June.
So now during our family vacation this year, it will be illegal to keep flounder AND trout. Thanks NCDMF! My mom just sent me a picture yesterday thanking me for her trout lunch she was having. Won't be any of that this year.
I swear we have the most fisherman-hating management for our coastal fisheries.
So now during our family vacation this year, it will be illegal to keep flounder AND trout. Thanks NCDMF! My mom just sent me a picture yesterday thanking me for her trout lunch she was having. Won't be any of that this year.
I swear we have the most fisherman-hating management for our coastal fisheries.
Unfortunately, I think what they may end up doing is creating outlaws..... 
agsnchunt
Old Mossy Horns
So I've been told...
SC limit: 10 trout, 5 flounder, 2 drum
NC limit: ...........1 drum
The difference? A little dotted line on a map. It's not ALL about eating them, but it's at least a little bit about eating.
Sportsman
Old Mossy Horns
This too shall pass. Last cold stun event that I recall was 2018. We caught a lot of very nice trophy size trout Fall 2019 and Winter 2020. I do think this event will be more significant than the last due to the vast spread and amount of snow from Raleigh to Hatteras, Currituck to Shallotte. However, it won’t kill them all. Hopefully they bounce back soon.
oldest school
Old Mossy Horns
interview with a bio from the marine division.
looks like thye will want to extend the ban thru the entire month of june.
looks like thye will want to extend the ban thru the entire month of june.
Hunting Nut
Old Mossy Horns
Jeeze.
I wonder what the fish did way back in the day before the NC gooberment was here to save them.
It's amazing there's any fish left in the water on the NC coast.
I wonder what the fish did way back in the day before the NC gooberment was here to save them.
It's amazing there's any fish left in the water on the NC coast.
I was there...and from all accounts we had a far better fishery before the suits started regulating it into oblivion...
CRC
Old Mossy Horns
Except SC has been busy tightening saltwater fish limits on a number of species as well
You want liberal limits go to Georgia
They make your point better
15 trout and flounder per day no season closures or boat limits
I agree the flounder situation is ridiculous and needs to change
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odie408
Twelve Pointer
Maybe Musk could cut ncdmf a give it back to nc wildlife. I think they did a better job. It's been down hill since the mf put their hands on it.
CRC
Old Mossy Horns
Or just do what they do in SC and Georgia and let the legislature set the fishing limits
Get rid of the DMF and just leave saltwater fishing to the politicians answerable to the voters
Get rid of the DMF and just leave saltwater fishing to the politicians answerable to the voters
wilykyote
Button Buck
bbuTTttt SsoouUuThh cAaRoliNnA let's you keep more FiIsHh... Lawl to the logic.
You didn’t have all these big steel hull trawlers in the sounds shoveling back millions and millions of dead fish. You had local commercial fisherman in small boats trying to make a living. It just a big conglomerate now. Just like small family farming, small farms couldn’t survive. Where I grew up I could stand in the yard and see 6-small family farms now one farmer leases and farms it all. Small commercial fisherman are pretty much going the same way. Too much money and politics in all of it anymore.
Nevermind, it's a waste of time...
The last sentence of that garbage is the only part with any real basis in fact...it's about money and politics.
The last sentence of that garbage is the only part with any real basis in fact...it's about money and politics.