question for people who lives in florida!

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

you can theoretically take pbass, but has to be within the legal size and bag limit

 

[dwilder]

i have some jewel cichlids i caught in the wild locally

 

[tanboy561]

Is it illegal to keep a bass. I live in FL. I cant find anything about it.

 

[Noto]

Email or call FWC if you want a definite answer. I know Florida is pretty easy-going about taking home non-game species, but it is probably different for game fish like bass.

 

[warmouth]

Say you are fishing and you catch an invasive. You can kill that one fish or you can let it go and watch it kill many and wipe out ecosystems. I'm not a fan of killing any animal either, but better to kill invasives then natives..

Your so right!

 

[Louie]

Why? Just let it be i'm not into killing animals

I agree and I ONLY catch and release regardless of native or not esp since I mostly fish canals where to hot 8 to 9 months a yr for native fish nor the enviroment they like and just cichlids.

 

[Louie]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't some invasives introduced by the government down there?

Grass carp -Peacock Bass and Talipa all introduced.

Granted Talipia wasn't on purpose the way it has taken off . Grass carp get BIG and swim in schools big vacuum cleners who shove native bass out of their spawning areas and suck up the egs.
So when the state screams "invasives" they are hypocrites as nothing takes a toll like grass carp .Grass carp are also protected .

"The first record of this tilapia in Florida was that of 3,000 fish stocked in a series of phosphate pits for aquatic plant control experiments at the Pleasant Grove Research Station in Hillsborough County in August 1961 (Crittenden 1965; Courtenay et al. 1974; Courtenay and Hensley 1979a). The tilapia later spread and reproduced, and subsequent attempts to eradicate it failed (Langford et al. 1978; Hale et al. 1995). The species is now considered the most widespread foreign species in Florida. It has been reported or collected in more than 20 Florida counties, and is established in most of these "

http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactS...?speciesID=463