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| Does anyone have an update on the illegal restrictions Minneapolis has imposed on limiting access to Lake Calhoun and Harriet?
The last I heard they are tyring to restrict access M-Thu in the middle of the day. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Here is some info right off the MPLS park and recreation board.
http://www.minneapolisparks.org/default.asp?PageID=1123 |
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| I guess the gas motor part doesn't apply to the yacht clubs. |
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| Their little chains are a joke. you can walk up and unhook them yourself if you stay out too late.. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | launching your boat without inspection is what they are making the issue out of. Once you are on the water, you are just another floating object with all the freedom in the world. They could care less if you stay out till 3am in the morning.
It's getting on the water that they made the issue out of. Obviously you would technically still be able to put your boat on the water "after hours" by breaking the MPLS park rules, cutting the chain and launching your boat. Not sure what the fine, if any, would be for doing this. But during the times that there is no inspector at the launch, you and everyone else (technically speaking) will be unable to launch your boats.
I did see a post from before that was talking about this and whether it was going to be enforced by the Minneapolis PD, or if it was just going to be enforced by the "rent-a-cops" of the MPLS park district. What I am curious to know is if they have put any consequences into place if someone were to break the rules? hopefully (even though I think it is BS) we can all be respectful, mature adults. I really hope that no Musky guy is going to go the extra mile to break the rules and make the rest of us look bad. Even if the rules are jaded and don't make a whole lot of sense to the common man. |
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Location: Minneapolis | Fat-ski, I talked to my buddy in the MPLS park police the other day, he says they won't be enforcing it. Doesn't seem like anyone will be enforcing it if cops aren't going to...the only time I see DNR around this chain is during opener when they check people for their fishing license. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | TC MUSKIE - 7/25/2012 11:12 AM
Fat-ski, I talked to my buddy in the MPLS park police the other day, he says they won't be enforcing it. Doesn't seem like anyone will be enforcing it if cops aren't going to...the only time I see DNR around this chain is during opener when they check people for their fishing license.
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Well that seems interesting that they have nothing in place for that. So basically they put this restriction in place for...??? People are just going to break the rules, and if there is no consequences... Who is going to stop them? It just seems ridiculous to me to have done it in the first place.
Edited by FAT-SKI 7/25/2012 11:36 AM
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| FAT-SKI - 7/25/2012 11:35 AM
TC MUSKIE - 7/25/2012 11:12 AM
Fat-ski, I talked to my buddy in the MPLS park police the other day, he says they won't be enforcing it. Doesn't seem like anyone will be enforcing it if cops aren't going to...the only time I see DNR around this chain is during opener when they check people for their fishing license.
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Well that seems interesting that they have nothing in place for that. So basically they put this restriction in place for...??? People are just going to break the rules, and if there is no consequences... Who is going to stop them? It just seems ridiculous to me to have done it in the first place.
we're talking politics here! Does any of it make sense? |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | MstormC - 7/25/2012 1:12 PM
FAT-SKI - 7/25/2012 11:35 AM
TC MUSKIE - 7/25/2012 11:12 AM
Fat-ski, I talked to my buddy in the MPLS park police the other day, he says they won't be enforcing it. Doesn't seem like anyone will be enforcing it if cops aren't going to...the only time I see DNR around this chain is during opener when they check people for their fishing license.
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Well that seems interesting that they have nothing in place for that. So basically they put this restriction in place for...??? People are just going to break the rules, and if there is no consequences... Who is going to stop them? It just seems ridiculous to me to have done it in the first place.
we're talking politics here! Does any of it make sense?
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Good point! |
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Location: Minneapolis | FAT-SKI - 7/25/2012 11:35 AM
TC MUSKIE - 7/25/2012 11:12 AM
Fat-ski, I talked to my buddy in the MPLS park police the other day, he says they won't be enforcing it. Doesn't seem like anyone will be enforcing it if cops aren't going to...the only time I see DNR around this chain is during opener when they check people for their fishing license.
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Well that seems interesting that they have nothing in place for that. So basically they put this restriction in place for...??? People are just going to break the rules, and if there is no consequences... Who is going to stop them? It just seems ridiculous to me to have done it in the first place.
I think they already are. I get a very nice view of the entirety of one of these lakes where I work, and I know for certain there's been the regular boat or two out there when they aren't "supposed" to. The situation seems to remain to be the status quo for the most part. I'm not sure if there's actually a chain in place on those lakes yet and people are connecting it to the xmas lake situation which has a chained launch already. Very confusing.. |
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| just biked around the city lakes then cooled off with a swim,,WOW is that water warm warmest ever and I grew up in MPL's
talked to the inspector at the launch,,,"Thank God"" for smart phones or those poor people wouldnt have anything to do!!!!!!!!!!, Do we know yet what will happen after sept because the inspectors dont know,,will the lake be shut down to boat traffic because of no more inspection stations manned,,remember sailboaters are king on these waters and they leave their buoys in early oct |
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| "I really hope that no Musky guy is going to go the extra mile to break the rules and make the rest of us look bad." I most certainly will go the extra mile to exercise my rights wherever and whenever I see fit. Pretending the Minneapolis City council knows what they are doing and has all the facts and information is comical. This restriction was knee jerk all the way. Do we know exactly what exotics are in the Mpls lakes? Zebra Mussels? Spiny Water fleas? Rusty crayfish? |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | guest - 7/26/2012 1:01 PM
"I really hope that no Musky guy is going to go the extra mile to break the rules and make the rest of us look bad." I most certainly will go the extra mile to exercise my rights wherever and whenever I see fit. Pretending the Minneapolis City council knows what they are doing and has all the facts and information is comical. This restriction was knee jerk all the way. Do we know exactly what exotics are in the Mpls lakes? Zebra Mussels? Spiny Water fleas? Rusty crayfish?
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I don't agree with what is happening any more then you do. But if you go out there to prove a point and break the rules you know as well as I do that it WILL effect the rest of us as an organized group, and it will make us look very unprofessional when we try to lobby against this "new policy". Just think about it. I can just hear them now, "well a group of musky anglers decided it was "THEIR RIGHT" to fish the waters outside of city regulated hours". "Why should we take any insight from this group of people?" "They obviously don't care anyways". When we all know that the majority of us as musky anglers do care and care more then a lot of the other groups out there.
So do I think you have a right to exercise you rights as an American citizen? YOUR DARN RIGHT I DO! Just make sure that when you go to walk that thin red line, that you do it with respect. Just because they don't respect us does not mean we should drop to their level to prove a point. The only thing that ever comes from that is a big fat LOSS. |
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Location: Minneapolis | Saw channel 5 last night at the launch doing a story about how easy it is to undo the chain during off hours and how MPLS park board is working on this issue for next year... |
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| Just read the little blurb on the KSTP website and the story was specifically on the fact that the MPLs park board is fielding dozens and dozens of complaints in regards to the restrictions. Fantastic! |
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Location: Minneapolis | I just don't see why they spend more resources on education rather than trying to take care of it themselves...all it takes is one boat and then there's ZMs in the lake. |
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