EP 678: New Redfish Slot Sizes??? Thoughts?

Salt Strong Fishing

Joe Simonds

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

There's a movement brewing in Florida to change the slot size for keeping redfish. Although the idea is to shrink (aka make smaller) the slot, it does lead to a healthier fishery (more redfish to catch - but not keep).

Listen in and let us know what you think.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Salt Strong podcast, Disrupting Fishing Entertainment as you know it.
0:10.9	Prepare to laugh.
0:12.2	Prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way.
0:16.8	And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing.
0:20.3	Here's your host, Joe Simons, like diamonds.
0:25.2	An all new redfish and maybe even Snook Slot.
0:29.9	Guys, it's Joe Simons, like diamonds and...
0:33.0	Hey, Luke Simons.
0:34.1	Like diamonds.
0:36.2	So we came across this video. It's called Bring Back to Fish in
0:41.1	Southwest Florida. And Captain Rhett Morris is, I guess, kind of the main guy behind this. And
0:48.4	we wanted to open this up for discussion. I don't have the answer. Luke doesn't have the answer.
0:52.6	Captain Red, I will give him a lot
0:54.9	of credit for at least coming up with the solution. And we'll talk about the problem first and foremost.
0:59.9	The problem, and he states it very well, this is a very well done video, is that if you've been
1:05.5	around for 10 years or more and the state of Florida in particular for this video, but this applies, I'm sure,
1:12.1	Texas, I know I've got friends there and a lot of members there and the Carolinas, Georgia,
1:17.4	my wife's family is all in their Savannah area.
1:19.8	They all would agree that fishing, indoor fishing, offshore fishing, all of it is not the same
1:25.6	as it used to be, meaning, you know, the pictures you see of some of the older guys, you know,
1:32.9	catching these monster snook one after another.
1:37.1	It's certainly not the same.
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