I have been thinking about pulling a overnighter. Can you guys tell me how it works with the limits? Do I get 2 days worth of limits or just one? If two how do I prove it if I get pulled?
Thanks!
You cannot keep more then a day’s bag limit, regardless of what time of day you leave a dock. There isn’t any method to report such in the first place.
To keep more then a day’s bag limit, you must exceed fishing 24 hrs on the water, which is only typically reserved to charter and for-hire portions to the recreational sector, who can properly document with DNR and USCG. The closet long range for-hire boats I know of are in Tampa and Keys…
if u have commerical lisense u go by weight not count
Some folks do this alot. Just file a float plan and be careful. I have been checked before and there was no problem.
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It is ultimately going to come down to how you can prove your time on the water. If you file a float plan with DNR, you can double bag limits on some species. If “per trip” bag limits then you cannot double. If “per day” bag limits, you can.
Red porgy, for example, is “per trip,” so you cannot keep more than 3 per person.
Swordfish is per trip as well, I believe.
A day is defined differently than “24hr period” in our state law. I will not go into it anymore than that. I’d advise you talk with DNR enforcement officers about how they interpret and enforce these things. Not worth having to go make your case in front of a judge over a couple more fish you wanted to keep, whether technically wrong or right.
Ask 5 different enforcement folks, and you’ll probably get more than one answer on this…
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My uncle came back from a week of fishing in Bimini with a metric chit to of fish. DNR in Florida got him coming in with 5 limits of fish… He got busted pretty good! think his fines were over $3k, but says he is fighting it.
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as several dnr and nmfs officers have told me it is possible, carry duct tape along with you, seal the first days catch in a cooler with two bands of duct tape around the cooler preventing it from being opened, at or before midnight, have each crew member initial it with a waterproof sharpie marker as well as the coordinates and contents of cooler. Also if you keep a gps log with time and ccordinates on the hour every hour as well as filing a float plan you are ok.
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