Went out with the Hurricane fleet for the full-day Gulfstream trip.
Long ride out and back, but the seas were probably the best I’d ever seen.
The boat slayed the fish. Largest caught was a Almaco Jack @ 19lbs.
We got our limit on b-liners, a grunt, two triggers, and a bluerunner.
There was one thing that pissed me off to no end though. I was so ticked that I wanted SOOOO badly to call the NCDNR to report a guy. He was Asian, about 65 years-old, and kept at least 50+ snapper – all species, ANY size. He had many different, undersized grouper, too. Seeing things like that piss me off to no end. He was “warned” about keeping them time and time again, but he didn’t care. He was using an electric reel and was rippin’ them up left and right. It took everything I had not to push him off the dock.
Yeah, who does get the fine? The Captain should’ve been the one to enforce the regulations and, typically, they do here in SC. I’d have pushed the guy off the boat!
The captain is not a law enforcement officer… The captain’s duty would be to warn the guy that he needs to obey the limits and that he would turn him in to DNR. It’s not the captain’s job to pull out a pair of nunchucks and start beating the guy down. What will the captain do if the guy tells him to “**** off”? There isnt’ much he should do, except radio the proper authorities on the way back to the dock and have them waiting to write the guy tickets when he get’s back.
Agreed USMC - you should have said something, but its hard when its not your boat. The captain is to blame also if he did nothing. Greedy, fish-heads are one of the reasons our oceans have been decimated to the levels they are now. Good luck, sir with your new boat!
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The captain is not a law enforcement officer… The captain’s duty would be to warn the guy that he needs to obey the limits and that he would turn him in to DNR. It’s not the captain’s job to pull out a pair of nunchucks and start beating the guy down. What will the captain do if the guy tells him to “**** off”? There isnt’ much he should do, except radio the proper authorities on the way back to the dock and have them waiting to write the guy tickets when he get’s back.
I am sure the DNR waiting at the dock after getting ratted out by the captain really helps business in this rough economy.
If you can’t fix it with a hammer, you’ve got an electrical problem.
quote:I am sure the DNR waiting at the dock after getting ratted out by the captain really helps business in this rough economy.
I would think the people who this would turn away are the exact kind that the captain would not want on his boat in the first place. It would actually help the captain in my eyes.
The boat was with the Hurricane Fleet, and the deckhands kept telling the guy that he couldn’t be keeping all those fish, it was illegal, and he would get a ticket if they were checked. There was another Asain guy, who’s name is Lee, and he’s supposed to be some sort of multi-millionare and goes out on that boat a couple times a week. He was with the other dude and he kept too many fish, as well.
So, the crew tried, but their comments fell on deaf ears.
Multi millionaire type guys usually don’t go out on head boats, but I suppose it could happen.
The Captain should have called ahead and notified DNR. What DNR does is kind of stand off to the side incognito like and wait for the people to get off the boat with their coolers in their possession, then pop them. Someone mentioned the Captain not wanting to loose a customer during tough times. I bet that Capt would much rather loose an $80 a day customenr than pay a $1000 fine
Multi millionaire type guys usually don’t go out on head boats, but I suppose it could happen.
I bet that Capt would much rather loose an $80 a day customenr than pay a $1000 fine
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I wouldn’t expect rich folks to take headboats either, but I asked one of the deckhands who talked to Lee like he really knew him and asked, “What’s that guy’s deal?” He just had an attitude about him and kept on acting like everything on the boat was there for him. Anyway, that’s what I was told. He’s filthy rich, and bored…
As far as the $1000 fine, it would not be the captain’s from what all the deckhands said. They said obey the rules, or you get a fine, not the boat, and the deckhands, not the captain.
There was another Asain guy, who’s name is Lee, and he’s supposed to be some sort of multi-millionare and goes out on that boat a couple times a week.
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You would think he would buy his own boat at that point. Then again maybe he had one and lost it to the feds for keeping over limit.:smiley:
Even with all the fish over the limit he was catching. Did he cause the boat to go over the limit per the number of people that were on board?
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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.
Even with all the fish over the limit he was catching. Did he cause the boat to go over the limit per the number of people that were on board?
This has been debated before…but technically it’s a personal possesion limit. Someone else on that boat would have to lie and say the extra fish were their’s to protect him.
If he’s carrying a cooler across the parking lot with more than his possession limit they can get him.
If DNR was tipped and wanted to do it right they would know how and when to check him.
If the captain wouldn’t do anything about this then what would he do if I had my handheld GPS on me and saved all his spots? Would he not do anything their either?
And to S4G there was another comment that the grouper were undersized so I don’t think there is a way to avoid these…
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