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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | "How often do we see the DNR? All the time! I've been checked every single time I've been out up north. "
I've been a property owner in Land O Lakes for 20 years, a lake home owner for 6, I have never been checked while Musky fishing. I've never been checked ice fishing and checked twice walleye fishing. I total about 125 days a year. |
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Location: The desert | Well apparently I look like a law breaker as I get checked often. I also cannot go through an airport without getting the pat down at every gate and 'random' searches....I guess I'm just unlucky, although I like seeing them out there. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | I'm not seeing this mass checkup of DNR either. I have been checked in WI one time, and that was in a county with fewer options of fishable lakes.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | punt, take a mulligan ... put the shovel down .... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I was checked about a half dozen times this year.Twice on lakes smaller than 300 acres with dirt unimproved landings. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | It's a possibility that because I fish two lakes more so than any others that the warden knows my boat and doesn't see a need to check. Pointer, if you fish alot of different lakes, wardens probably don't know your boat, thus all the checks. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | i guess i too can't imagine an "every time check scenario" ... 10 years and on avg. 4 days a week on the water throughout two counties and have never been checked and only seen one doing a creel study. absolutes are tough to push either direction ... and usually end with a blank stare on one end ... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Sled,
You just are SOOO honest looking...it's just obvious there's no need to check you!
Umm, well...sorta honest looking? |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | that's gotta be it ...
at the moment chompin' at the bit to get on the ice .... everything is ready to go ....
what does a dnr official do to prioritize which lakes they work vs. which ones they don't do so much on? ... there are so darn many lakes i can't imagine they are able to make the kind of impact many of us would like to see. the ice fishing thing is probably the most significant area of abuse for multiple limits etc... |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | I asked Mike that very question last season. He said the "famous" lakes with the most recorded violations get hit first, second were the ones with recent complaints of possible violations. |
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Location: The desert | I supposed considering that I dont fish up north all that often has some play in the equation, and that I only fish a few selected lakes. If you fish pressured lakes more often though I'd think you would be checked more often? Or I'm just a shady looking character. |
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| PP,
That "Mexi-stash" is dead give away that you are a suspicious character!! |
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| Got a Question? How does a bill like this early season catch and release get brought up? Who is/are responsible for thinking of it in the first place.. is it anglers, gov., dnr.... Just curious as to who came up with the idea in the first place..i.e. who gave people like Dan Meyer the want to write it up?
bret
Edited by johnson 11/26/2007 9:17 AM
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| Does anyone know the website for the new law?
Tom |
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Location: MPLS, MN | To me it seems that since MN and Canada do so well and we have such great fisheries for size and numbers that alot of folks who use to vacation and spend money in Wisc now go to MN and Canada. So with the economic shortfall the knee jerk reasction is to use something like this to try to get some of those vacation dollars back. Instead of looking at MN and Canada as models {that would take some years to build some of those fisheries back up or better than ever.} Political answer is this. |
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