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Grouper
 
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| Does the new reef fish circle hook rule apply to sabiki's? We use the heavy duty sabiki's for catching trigger fish and other small fish for use as live baits around the wrecks, the way the new rule reads I think that is now illegal.
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Ruby Red Lip
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This law is going to be very difficult to enforce. As long as there are no other boats within a few miles of you, who's to say what gear you're fishing. If you were to do something illegal, you'd have to be pretty stupid to keep doing it when you noticed that another boat started running straight at you. It would take at least a few minutes before they arrived which would give plenty of time to remove any bait from your sabiki, stow it, and break out another rod rigged with circle hooks. This is all just hypothetical, of course.
Oh, and using "other small fish" that have size or bag limits is also illegal now.
james
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Snapper
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have they put a size limit on the endangered hardtail yet.
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Mingo
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Spoke to an FWC officer that gave a ticket to someone using strips from a sheepheads belly
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Grouper
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Not sure how that would work. The FWC was going to look into the use of non-stainless steel hooks for snapper fishing but I didn't hear them say anything definate about there use out in Panama City. Sabikis were primarily designed for bait fishing,not for catching snapper or trigger so theres no way it would hold up in court against ya. Then again I never did win any of my court cases
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Snapper
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| Yes, the proposed rule will go into effect april 1, the new hardtail regulations are as follows: Bag limit of 4 per person min. length 5" max. length 6" with 1 fish over slot.
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Trigger
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Those are some damn funny hardtail post! Not to derail, sorry.
I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead
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