Saturday, January 16, 2010

Tampa Bay Fish Kill

The picture above is from the newspaper.

Here is a nice trout I caught.



I went out fishing yesterday and it was a very slow day. Water temperature is still way low and the fish are not chewing. The water temperature in the bay and along the beaches went down into the low 40’s which has caused a pretty major fish kill in Tampa Bay and in fact in most areas of the state of Florida. So much so that the Fish and Game has decided to extend the block on keeping any Snook this year. There are literally thousands of dead snook floating around the Bay and with the season scheduled to begin on the first of February, they decided to keep it closed for at least the rest of this year and they may extend it for another year after some final research on the total kill.


Jim

2 comments:

  1. FWC says season will be closed until September?

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  2. I actually heard today that the Snook ban may be continued another year and that will be decided based on some more definitive fish kill counts in the coming weeks. So no Snook keeping for quite awhile!

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