At long last, the MN DNR is considering doing away with a closed bass season and going to catch and release outside of the open season for bass. Michigan did it, then Wisconsin did it. Minnesocold will hopefully do the right thing.
Showing posts with label Minnesota Early C&R Season. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Minnesota Early C&R Season. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 21, 2013
Yes It Is Time For An Early C&R Season in MN!!!
Is it time for an early C&R bass season?
The process for getting this looked at has been a little slow in my opinion, but it looks like there is a good chance this will happen in 2015. There will be a public comment period sometime in the next few months and probably be a hearing or two at the capital. Providing there is no significant opposition this should pass and I'll be throwing what I want to on the Fishing Opener in 2015.
The process for getting this looked at has been a little slow in my opinion, but it looks like there is a good chance this will happen in 2015. There will be a public comment period sometime in the next few months and probably be a hearing or two at the capital. Providing there is no significant opposition this should pass and I'll be throwing what I want to on the Fishing Opener in 2015.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
FLW Blogs About Minnesota's Closed Bass Season
And you thought Wisconsin was weird Money Quote: There is some potentially good news on the horizon as a movement has begun to end the madness. The group “Minnesotans for an Early Bass Fishing Season” is growing in numbers and unifying its vision before presenting to the powers that be. Hopefully, Minnesota will recognize their hypocrisy and make May 14 the statewide catch and release bass opener. Because in the end, no one can tell me Wisconsin’s bass fishing is any worse than Minnesota’s. They just get to have more fun, which is what fishing is supposed to be about.
Go read the whole thing.
Personally I am of the view that all of the MN closed bass season should be open to catch and release fishing for bass. Making pre-spawn catch and release bass fishing illegal is asinine and done completely without any scientific justification in terms of conserving the resource.
Go read the whole thing.
Personally I am of the view that all of the MN closed bass season should be open to catch and release fishing for bass. Making pre-spawn catch and release bass fishing illegal is asinine and done completely without any scientific justification in terms of conserving the resource.
Friday, March 27, 2009
An Experimental Catch & Release Program for Minnesota Bass in the Spring???
Big Indiana Bass is one of several very good bass fishing blogs out of Indiana and Illinois. Brian Waldman of Big Indiana Bass blog is on top of developments of science as it relates to bass fishing. His March 14th post, Bass Fishing On Beds: An Indiana Perspective links to a PDF file of a report/study from the Indiana DNR about whether allowing bass fishing in the Spring or having a closed season is best for the resource and it's users.
In the PDF file is this tidbit:
Minnesota is currently the only state with a statewide closed season on bass even though an advisory counsel recently recommended moving towards a catch-and-release at a few lakes on an experimental basis.
I am not aware of any such advisory counsel, but if this is true I am all for it and hope that the DNR listens and tries it out selecting bodies of water from every region in the State. We have so many lakes with bass and so many lakes with special regulations already that I think it is a no brainer to open a few lakes up for catch and release fishing for bass during the Spring closed season. It just isn't right that bass fishermen in Minnesota are prohibited from catch and release fishing for bass during the pre-spawn on every body of water in the state except the Mississippi River from Pool 2 on South. At a bare minimum a few lakes sprinkled throughout the state should allow catch and release bass fishing in the Spring.
From my blog to God's and the DNR Commissioners ear.
In the PDF file is this tidbit:
Minnesota is currently the only state with a statewide closed season on bass even though an advisory counsel recently recommended moving towards a catch-and-release at a few lakes on an experimental basis.
I am not aware of any such advisory counsel, but if this is true I am all for it and hope that the DNR listens and tries it out selecting bodies of water from every region in the State. We have so many lakes with bass and so many lakes with special regulations already that I think it is a no brainer to open a few lakes up for catch and release fishing for bass during the Spring closed season. It just isn't right that bass fishermen in Minnesota are prohibited from catch and release fishing for bass during the pre-spawn on every body of water in the state except the Mississippi River from Pool 2 on South. At a bare minimum a few lakes sprinkled throughout the state should allow catch and release bass fishing in the Spring.
From my blog to God's and the DNR Commissioners ear.
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