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Location: Prior Lake, Minnesota | Fished Waconia Sat. 11th. To my unwanted surprise I got to the access at 7:00 and parking was already in overflow. I asked a guy at the dock and he said there was TWO tournaments going on. Thats to times in a row on that lake and there have been tournaments. At least they werent musky tounaments. I dont know why I stayed but I still managed to boat a healthy 37 incher. The surface temps are hovering around 68-69 degrees. The weeds are still real strong and thick on the reefs. Finally, I have a question -when I was waiting for my fishing buddy to come and back in with the trailor I saw some guys taking photos of a fish on shore. From my distance it looked like a small norhern. My guess is that it was the winning fish in the 4 spieces tournament that was going on because there was a small crowd and one guy had a clip board. When I asked the guys at the dock they said it was a 9 pound ski. Granted he let it go off the dock, but isnt it illegal to even have possesion of that fish? Dont you run the risk of the fish dieing in the livewell? I was going to say something but I wanted to get my facts straight before I go preaching on my soap box to a bunch of anglers. |
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| It is illeagal to have that fish in the livewell. It should have been released as soon as it was determined to be under 40" in length. If the DNR had checked their boat, they would have recieved a ticket.
Lance
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Location: Prior Lake, Minnesota | Thanks Lance,
Thats what I thought. |
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| not necessarily! The posession limit is one Right? It just ment that he could no longer fish for Musky. There is nothing wrong with putting a fish in your livewell is there? Now if he continued to fish or go back out and fish for them again, he would be in violation. So becarefull of what you accuse someone of doing! |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | The daily bag/posession limit is pretty much irrelevant if the minimum size limit was 40" though. A single 37"er (for example) reduced to posession is still unlawful, wether one is still fishing for muskie or not. The 9 pounder being displayed and subsequently released probably couldn't be much over 33-34 inches. I believe Lance is still right.
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| This is MN waters, and MN min is 40", everything less than that is to be returned to the water as soon as possible. If it were Wisconsin, or a state with lower size limits you would be correct Tyee. Otherwise that was one skinny muskie.
Lance
Edited by lpeitso 9/15/2004 12:38 PM
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Possession law