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[Ammo7]

I'm preparing to make a trip to PINS and camp for 3 days and was wondering about bag limits on fish.

Let's say the daily bag limit on a particular fish is 3 fish per person per day. The question at hand is...how does that work If I am camping there for 3 days? Can I legally keep 9 fish(3 per day)? If the game warden walks up and sees 9 fish in the box, will he ticket me and I possibly stand a chance of losing my gear? What proof can I offer him as to the number of days I have been there? I've looked in the regulations and I can't find anything about multiple day trips pertaining to bag limits.

Can anyone help on this or offer some advice?

[TexasFish]

Heres what TP&W says in there Book

Bag and Length Limits for Saltwater Fish
• Daily bag is the quantity of a species of a wildlife resource that may be taken in one day.
• Possession limit is twice the daily bag on game and nongame fish, except as provided in this guide.
• Possession limit does not apply to wildlife resources in the possession of or stored by a person at their
permanent residence.
• There are no bag, possession, or length limits on game or nongame fish, except as listed in this guide.

So in other words you can only have 6 reds in your possession. So you can NOT keep 9 reds, that would be a big fine if cought by TP&W.

If you have any more Question just drop me a line

Your local Coastie
Kevin

[Ammo7]

US Coastie,

so, if I fish for one day, I can only go home with three fish or...

If I camp for three days I can only go home with three fish?

[TexasFish]

If you go out for one day, and you are catching RedFish you can only keep 3 Slot Reds. If you fish for 3 days you can keep 6 fish. In your possession of Redfish you can only have 6 at one time for 2 day or more.

Species Daily Bag Length in Inches
(Minimum — Maximum)

Catfish, gafftopsail (No limit) 14" — No limit (length)
Cobia (2 daily bag limit) 37" — No limit (length)
Drum, black (5 daily bag limit) 14" — 30" (length)
Drum, reda (3 daily bag limit) 20" — 28"a (length)
Flounder: all species, their hybrids (10 daily bag limit) 14" — No limit (length)
and subspecies (in any combination)

Species Daily Bag Length in Inches
(Minimum — Maximum)
Mackerel, king (2 daily bag limit) 27" — No limit (length)
Mackerel, Spanish (15 daily bag limit) 14" — No limit (length)
Mullet: all species, their hybrids No limit No limit — 12b
and subspeciesb (during Oct., Nov., Dec. & Jan.)
Seatrout, spottedc (10 daily bag limit) 15" — 25"c (length)
Shark: all species, their hybrids (1 daily bag limit) 24" — No limit
and subspecies
Sheepshead (5 daily bag limit) 12" — No limit (length)
Snook (1 daily bag limit) 24" — 28" (length)
Tarpond 0 Catch and release onlyd
a Red drum special regulation: During a license year, one red drum over the stated maximum length limit
may be retained when affixed with a properly completed Red Drum Tag and one red drum over the
stated maximum length limit may be retained when affixed with a properly completed Bonus Red
Drum Tag. Any fish retained under authority of a Red Drum Tag or a Bonus Red Drum Tag may be
retained in addition to the daily bag and possession limit as stated in this section.[/size]
bMay not take from public waters, or possess on board a boat, mullet over 12 inches during October,
November, December, and January. No limits apply during other months.
c No more than one spotted seatrout over the stated maximum length may be retained per person per
day and counts as part of the daily bag and possession limit.[/size]
dTarpon special regulation: One tarpon 80 inches or larger in length may be retained during a license
year when affixed with a properly executed Tarpon Tag.

[Ammo7]

Okay, I can keep 6, it doesn't matter if it's 2 days or more. Got it. I've always thought the fish had to be alive if you kept in possession. Learn something new everyday.

thanks.

[rabbit]

Also I believe they may have changed the flounder limits. They were talking about stopping the overnight bag limits for flounder gigging. People would go out and fish before and after midnight and come back with 20 flounder, they were going to change that to be 10 flounder per fishing trip. Havent seen the new regs yet so I dont know if they did that or not.
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[Lat22]

You can keep as many whiting as your little heart desires. I haven't fished the surf in a while, but whiting were always willing to cooperate if you had fishbites.

[Mike Rog]

Actually you can have 7 in the box as long as one is over 28" and has a tag on it.

MR
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[texancare]

Maybe you need to have a fish fry on the second day
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[Ammo7]

I just wanted to get a full understanding on the bag limit. I rarely keep any gamefish for myself but my mother may be coming along and she likes to keep a fish or two. It's better to be safe than to gearless and broke.

[MJW]

CAnt blame you wanting to play it safe and have all the info!!!
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