catching fish in the wild

It really depends on what you go after, the hardier fishies of the Atlantic are Angel fish
not reef safe, and also trigger fish, there is a wide variety of Butterfly's but none do well in captivity, they are Neon gobies and several Basslets and Blennies that should do just fine.
The slurp gun does good if they are in the rocks, if they are just swimming you are wasting your time, a cast net works beautiful and also a clear net.

 

I have people using clear nets ... but it all depends on the fish it works for some ; but isnt so effective with others its trial and error i guess

 

I think this is such a cool idea, as long as you conform to state law on the issue, I would love to go out and try to catch a fish or two. Save me some money. This is a little different, and I may already know the anwer, which is I don't think you can, but can you take wild corals from reefs?

 

By the way,, my neon blue damsel went carpet surfing yesterday....lol

 

I still have not had time to go out and catch fish but I read that slurp guns are not that good. That its hard to catch the fish. So when I go out im going to try some kind of barrier net. I went to get crabs and such and the fish were were fast as heck so the slurp gun would be of no use.

By the way here are the rules and regs.

RECREATIONAL HARVESTING INFORMATION FOR MARINE LIFE SPECIES

Pretty much you can take any fish (read the exceptions)

 

i have read all the regs and you CANNOT take live coral also anyone is welcome to come with me when i go to catch them just PM me

 

You can take corals just not hard corals or some sponges. So you can take ricordeas,zoanthids etc..

 

WoW idid'nt know that thank you as soon as my tank matures it's getting soft corals

 

Yeah just make sure you know what your collecting and the allowed quantities. Might want to print pictures with detailed info and laminate them just in case fwc officers stop you and did not know you can take non-stony corals.

 

As for getting fish, almost everytime I go fishing we always catch some fish. We have cought french angelsifh, blue angelfish, 4 eye butterfly, triggers, queen angelfish, damsels, wrasses. We have also cought some pencil urchins and red/black urchins as well. I think in the next few weeks we are going to try to catch some neons and coral banded shrimps. There are also a bunch of snail that you can catch and hermits crabs.

As far as corals go, we ahve not gotten any thinking that they were ALL illegal to catch, but after reading some posts here and going to myfwc.com we found out you can catch some soft corals (octocoral colonies).