recording. An FWC officer approaches two men throwing cast nets from a bridge. How's it going, guys? How are y'all? I need to take a look at some fish. All right, fish. Bullet. All bullet. How about that one over there? All right. Just you guys fishing? Okay. Is it just you guys fishing? No. No. Whose cooler is this? Mine. That's your cooler? Yeah. Whose cooler is this? That's yours, too? No. Just Are you guys all together? Okay. I need you you guys to go stand in the back of my truck. Okay. I need your IDs. All right. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. The officer finds a total of seven snook in the cooler. All right. Who caught these? You caught all these? Yeah. All of these. You know what those are? It see those are snook. But it see it's one per person and they got to be bigger than 28 in and less than 32 in. Oh So you have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. You have seven snook. Okay, we're going to put it back. No, you're not. I'm going to take you to jail. Okay, so go ahead. Turn around. Put your hand binder back. Turn around. Hand binder. Right. All right. You cover and you're you're not allowed to catch him with a net. El illegal is illegal. See how many mullet this your cooler? Yeah. This is your cooler. Okay. I'm going to count them. Okay. Yes, sir. Take Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Take the net out. You know you can only have 50, right? The recreational limit for mullet is 50 mullet per person per day. There is no minimum size limit for mullet in Florida. Officer counts 76 mullet in the cooler. I cut and check. Do you know why you're getting a ticket? You understand why you're getting a ticket? No. Can you one in one more time? Absolutely not. I can't only. Yeah, but you're only allowed to have 50 of them. Sorry. I don't know. Sometime he give me We have rules, right? You got to know the rules before you go, right? He's got uh 75 mullet and he's got uh seven snook caught with a cast net. When I pulled up, they had like a 6 in sheep's head, too, but they threw it back. Um I've got pictures of them. I mean, they're going to they're going to die. They got caught with a cast net. Officer confiscates the cast net used to harvest the seven snook. FWC officers have the right to confiscate any equipment used to illegally harvest wildlife. I got all the fish in my bucket. All right. Um, I'll do the paperwork and the evidence and I'll uh print out your Um, I'm just going to knock out his ticket real quick for the mullet. Thank you. All right. Just so you know what you're being charged with. You're being charged with seven counts of undersized snook, six counts for over the bag limit of snook, seven counts for taking snook by illegal method, one count of major violation pertaining to snook for being more than three fish in violation, and you're going to get a ticket for no snook stamp. Do you have any questions? I understand the last. So So it's it's going to be like you got a ticket a while ago for no driver's license, right? for driving with no license. No less dear, right? Oh, I don't have You got a ticket from Palm Springs like Yeah, I have it. Yeah, like eight days ago, right? Yeah, I already know. I know. That's it. No, I I already know. Um that was one ticket. We're giving you 20 tickets. The fisherman who caught the snook is facing fines from $3,000 to $5,000 and up to 60 days in jail.