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Try reading the Minnesota fishing regulations book. Just that alone is enough to make your head spin. The regulations are not worth it, keep your rights in Indiana.
Head spin? Seems pretty simple to me. Never had any trouble staying legal.In my experience, the same fisherman who are clearly breaking the law and who claim they can't understand to regs are really just too lazy to look at them.
We had this happen with a bunch of doctors and lawyers from New York.They came to fish the famous Kenai River in Alaska.Day one they had 33 or 36 red salmon over their limit. And they did not even posses fishing licenses.Next day same place and they got caught again 30 some fish over their limit and still didn't have fishing licenses.These guys were actually caught while still fishing on the river. Who knows when they would have stopped fishing.It's a shame whenever people cannot follow the rules as in the end this hurts us all by destroying our fisheries.
Maybe if it the rules are to hard to follow you should stop participating in the sport, since its a self regulating system till your caught !
Are you kidding me? They change every year, and I read the regulations book multiple times a year. Just from a pike fishing perspective. You can use suckers bought from a bait store, but last year I saw something about suckers over 10" you need to have a receipt. I don't see it now, but it may or may not be buried in the fine print. If you trap your own bait you can only use them on that lake, but wait, minnows are most easily trapped in streams. So if your favorite lake doesn't have a stream you are SOL. If you have suckers over 12" they have to be alive. What am I supposed to take all my bait one by one and measure them? You can readily use a single hook and play the the balancing act of a missed fish vs a gut hooked one. One year you could use a treble hook as long as it had a spinner above it, but then you couldn't. Now you can use any hooks, but only up to three, and they can't be more than 9" apart. That's right, every commercial quick strike rig currently made is illegal in the state of Minnesota. According the the regulations a quickstrike rig has to have leads 4.5" or shorter to be under the 9" maximum. Who's business is it what rig you use anyway, especially when its a redundant law when you can't use multiple baited hooks on a line anyway? Daily limit of 3 pike seems reasonable until you realize the state is littered with lakes of which have their own special regulations. And what ever happened to splitting the state into 3 areas and making central MN a limit of 10? Was that last year? You can set out tip ups, but they have to be within 200'. So if you set out multiple are you breaking the law when you go to catch a fish? And that's just ice fishing. Bringing a boat into it and you start talking about rules that are 15 years too late. I've seen multiple times last year guys get turned away at launches for having rainwater in their boat. Trust me, you break a law every time you walk out that door, go to work, go fishing, heck you can't even legally build a shed in this state without jumping through hoops.
. I was up there (Kenai river) in late 70's and I think limit was one fish a day if I remember right!!
Are you sure it's 200'of each other or is it you can't be more then 200' from.Here in Ontario you have to be within 197' with an unobstructed view.
So what did the MNR do with the 49 perfectly edible walleye...Seems like an easy solution to this though...clean fish before freezing and transporting them. Duh.
The MN regulations do not change that much year to year. The changes are highly publicized. One of the first sections in the new reg books is a what's new synopsis.From the 2016 (current) regulations:"How far away can I go from my lines?You must remain within sight of your line. If you’re using a tip-up (a device with spooled line and aflag that pops up to indicate when a fish bites) you need to be within 200 feet. "Seems pretty simple. Stay within 200'. Your farthest can be no farther than 200' apart. What is hard about that? Maybe someone needs to head over to the area of the forum where the grumps gather.
I think the point is well established that these criminals are in our midst and that the rest of us law abiding sportsmen and woman should not let them bring the rest of us down with them by shear guilt by association !!The original offence happened tin Ontario, Canada . So why move to the MN board ?
