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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Alot of questions on this at work. I thought it didn't pass for this season, some say it did. For the record can or can't you fish Musky up north this weekend? |
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| no you can not, it would not be in effect til 09 if it stands |
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| ha! both.
it passed and it didn't pass...
the law passed (as part of the budget bill last year), so it's set to go into effect in spring of '09.
the DNR is still required to hold public information/input hearings; they accomplished this by placing it as a question at this year's Conservation Congress hearings. every option that included the early season did not "pass" the CC vote; however, the CC is not legally binding in any way, so it's still law and will still go into effect next spring unless something happens between now and then to change the law.
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| It is a little confusing but the aspects of the early season such as catch and release, barbless artificials are subject to change (via the different options presented at the Spring Hearings). But the season must be implemented in 09 after the 08 Spring (public) hearings because the season was established by statute and not administrative code (the Spring Hearing process). The season can only be changed legislatively (by statute). I don't think there'd be much problem doing that...
I also copied a response below that I posted previously.
Think of the Spring Hearings as a public meeting REQUIRED for the dnr to get resource changes through. That is they take all of their changes for the year and use that meeting to meet the public noticing / meeting requirement.
In the case of the northern zone musky reg change (established by the legislature ) the DNR had it on as a resolution question during the 08 PUBLIC spring hearings as a way of meeting the public notice requirement (since the legislative process never had one). Even though the DNR had to implement the change, because it was a resource reg the state determined that it still needed to go through the public hearing process. So it was truly "a cart before the horse" scenario
So you have DNR submitted resolutions, CC Executive submitted resolutions, and than at the end of the meeting, newly submitted citizen questions that go through the process Tom described. A citizen should always try and get the DNR to propose the resolution because it bypasses the need to go through the CC committee approval, and knocks off a year. Plus, if it gets public support, almost always gets adopted by the NRB because of the DNR support (true with fishery stuff not necessarily with other issues...). The 54 inch resolution will be very unique if it makes it through the NRB based on DNR supporting it based on wide public support, but not a strict biological need. I'm not sure I know of any fishery change that made it to law that was submitted at a local level, but I never researched that.
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Location: The desert | You can not fish muskies above hwy 10 this weekend.
I encourage EVERYONE fishing Wisconsin waters to go out and actually read the regulation booklet. A lot of these questions can be answered quite simply by taking the time to actually read the regulations. |
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Location: searchin for 50 | Ok Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Did or Didn't the Early Season Musky Pass?