Know Your New Snook Regulations

Snook season opens at midnight tonight! Before you break out that new Zara Spook or Redtail Hawk and head out to your favorite snook haunt, you had better look over the new fishing regulations for snook. The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission has changed the slot, bag limits, and closed season on snook and the new rules take effect Saturday, September 1st. You can read the new rules at the FWC web site, http://www.myfwc.com/marine/docs/07FLSalt_webregs.pdf. Click on this link and it will take you to the new regulations page. It is a PDF file so you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view it. This is a free program so if you don't have it on your computer all ready go to www.Adobe.com and download it. I wrote a summary on the new regulations a couple of weeks ago so you can also look for"New Snook Regulations" in the archives section on this web site. The biggest changes are for east coast anglers, but slot sizes have changed for the entire state. Ignorance is no excuse so know your rules before you drop that first line sider of the fall in your cooler.