Grouper ban in effect

[DirtySteve]

Originally Posted by 4thIDvet

That looks good Pogo..
This grouper ban will kill the party boats. Those poor guys have millions invested too take people out. One hairy spotted owl lover decides their endangered. Stop catching them.
Dont think this ban battle is over quite yet.
With the FWC down here. It is all about the money. They could give a damn less about the wildlife.
Our gators are so thick down here you can walk on them.
After 6 people were killed by them a few seasons ago. Then they decide too let the trappers loose.
Tourists come too Florida to see wally the gator. Oh look honey an alligator. I love Florida.
Then when the damn thing is crushing their pet poodle with 3,000 p.s.i. of jaw.
They understand why we want them thinned.

Yeah, we saw lots of Yankee tourists feeding 'em doughnuts down in Sanibel....dumbfucks.

[Rick in NY]

Don't feel bad, DirtySteve. Up here in NY we hear about idiots feeding bears and then wondering why they, like Yogi, come back for more.

[Pogo]

Originally Posted by DirtySteve

Yeah, we saw lots of Yankee tourists feeding 'em doughnuts down in Sanibel....dumbfucks.

Many years ago when I was fishing in Florida's gulf I camped out at Oscar Scherer State Park in Osprey, Florida. I was cooking breakfast one morning and I heard a large alligator making a grunting noise in the little creek behind my campsite. I went over and looked at him. Then I got a piece of bacon and put it on a long stick and held it above his nose. When he opened his mouth to snatch the bacon I threw a big glob of sand in his mouth. Dang he was mad then. He started snorting and splashing water in the creek and swam away.

I wouldn't do that anymore. That was a mean thing to do. I was just young and unthoughtful. I just leave them alone whenever I see them now.

[4thIDvet]

Me and my buddy were walking down at Loxahatchie State park.
Gators all up in the canals.
"Whip a rock, see if you can hit the gator in the noggin."
That little SOB chased us all the way too the tourist shack.
Damn I will never forget that.
That little SOB was friggen pissed.

[DirtySteve]

My wife and I have been canoeing/hiking/biking alot recently, we give 'em a wide berth and careful in areas like this.....

[4thIDvet]

Originally Posted by DirtySteve

My wife and I have been canoeing/hiking/biking alot recently, we give 'em a wide berth and careful in areas like this.....

We have backwaters I take my boat through fishing down here just like that.
Gators aint gonna bother you.
Narrow channels like that, keep yer eye up in the trees.
You spook a moccasin or cottonmouth sunning in the tree. They drop straight down too the water.
If your boat is under them. Start swimming.
One missed my boat by inches. He came in that boat. I would have been the second person, since Moses, too walk on water.

[DirtySteve]

Originally Posted by 4thIDvet

We have backwaters I take my boat through fishing down here just like that.
Gators aint gonna bother you.
Narrow channels like that, keep yer eye up in the trees.
You spook a moccasin or cottonmouth sunning in the tree. They drop straight down too the water.
If your boat is under them. Start swimming.
One missed my boat by inches. He came in that boat. I would have been the second person, since Moses, too walk on water.

My wife was with me, so I'd have to summon my inner Conan the Barbarian with the paddle and shit my pants later.