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Most fishermen suffer from Lemming syndrome. I may very well wind up in a spot with a group of other boats but not for long. I'll be damned if I'm gonna fish where 500 lines have been raking the bottom for hours on end. Think outside the box, look on the chart and find spots that look similar to those that usually produce. Just because there are no boats there doesn't mean the fish aren't there.
 
Dan it just come to me ol boy instead of you doing fishing charters this year add on another 100.00 a man and do fishing lessons charters...COME IN

LOL, NA, the more guys who enter the tourneys who wont burn gas to find the right fish just add to the tourney winnings for those who do.



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I agree with hammer, It's all based on bait and presentation of the bait in the area. Yes there is good fishing south then it moves north when the warmer water pushes up, after that you need to focuse on the major bait and copy it. Listen all of you guy's pointing fingers at one another needs to stop. Nobody is ever gonna say the right thing but commercial or not, if we don't get along we are only hurting ourselves.
 
I think there is a little disconnect here. We're not all commercial or charter guys and don't all have the resources you do. And so we're not inept just because we don't limit out every day. I'd like to think I'd be better at my day job then a commercial fisherman would be if we swapped jobs for a day too!

I think there are plenty of fish down south, but my throwback to keeper ratio last year was something like 50:1. I still support a smaller keeper size, 17" with a lower limit, say 3 per day. That's plenty of fish for anyone.
 
I have always said I would like to come up with a hook size or and style that would [mostly] hook larger fish and let you keep what every size fish you hook no matter if it is 12" or 18" this would cut back on the mortality rate
 
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