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| DaveS53 - 2/25/2026 10:36 AM
This will probably generate a whole lot of flack but I'll say it anyway. Between the early European immigrants and what came to be Americans, the native Americans have been cheated and killed, had their land stolen, their game animals massacred and treated as bad or worse than the slaves were. So with what little land and native rights they have left I am inclined to give them a pass. And as someone else pointed out, even with catch and release the shear numbers of todays musky sport fisherman as a whole are probably responsible for a lot of delayed mortality. So if we really want to be so protective of the resource, along with a catch to keep limit there should be a daily catch and release limit.
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Location: Vilas | The best way to motivate someone is to tell them they cant do it. All this whining and crying is just adding fuel to their fire. Theres nothing youre going to do about it, stop following their Facebook pages. Bite your tongue, stop your comments and quit posting about it....... |
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| Sorry but I just need to let people know what is going on. I know we have about a .01% chance of changing anything but the more people see what is going on the better.
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Location: Duluth, MN | My thought would be why do this when it only depletes a very limited resource and then you won't be able to do it when they are all gone? I assume they can only do this on certain lakes right? It takes 10 years to replace 1 muskie. It takes 2-3 years to replace thousands of walleyes. Go for it...spear all you want but just seems like you're just hurting your own lakes. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | It's the law of the land. Yell at your favorite senator. |
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| The one thing anyone can do is boycott the casino. If you drive past on a summer evening there will be multiple fishing boats parked in the lot. There are other casinos, where the tribe does not spear, go there if you want to gamble. And, let them know you have taken your business elsewhere and why. Talk to friends, explain why you are no longer supporting that particular enterprise and ask them to talk to their friends. It's the American way. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | On the reservation the bands have absolute sovereignty, years ago we were fishing and staying on a reservation in Arizona and we pulled off the dirt road to walk in a fish. The tribal police come by and said you can't park there and we are going to tow your truck. We protested then you of the officers goes and digs a no parking sign out of the sage brush. Then we paid 50 dollar cash fine on the spot not to be towed. The truck was borrowed from our friends work and he would deep trouble if he didn't have that truck back to work the next working day. He was a soft drink executive but would have still been in trouble. |
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| I am not a gambler to begin with, but boycotting the casino does nothing. Today, revenue generated from the Casinos provides tribal members with money to live in today's society. Which could be used as evidence that the treaty rights of the past are expired. Less money from the Casinos would drive more of a need to live off the land. With every generation, natives are living less and less of this sustenance lifestyle. It's ridiculous these treaty rights go back nearly 200 years. Obviously, times have changed. Even the Voigt decision was made greater than 40 years ago. In my opinion, it may be time to revisit it, but who could possibly take this on? Seems like an impossible task.
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| MartinTD - 3/27/2026 12:01 PM
I am not a gambler to begin with, but boycotting the casino does nothing. Today, revenue generated from the Casinos provides tribal members with money to live in today's society. Which could be used as evidence that the treaty rights of the past are expired. Less money from the Casinos would drive more of a need to live off the land. With every generation, natives are living less and less of this sustenance lifestyle. It's ridiculous these treaty rights go back nearly 200 years. Obviously, times have changed. Even the Voigt decision was made greater than 40 years ago. In my opinion, it may be time to revisit it, but who could possibly take this on? Seems like an impossible task.
I don't know of anyone who would not pay attention if they saw a reduction in their income. I understand your point but I think losing business would be cause for revaluation of what is being done. At one time the state has a better relationship with the tribe, even got a lot of walleye from tribal hatchery. I don't know what caused the relationship to weaken to where it is now. |
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