Still stuck with the 7 inch bullhead Rule!!

I would call that number and ask them to define “Minnesota side”. Minnesota certainly can add a regulation to the border water for their state anglers. I would bet they mean West of the railroad tracks on the Minnesota side or it could mean the entire border water for Minnesota. This link is pretty confusing. Many maps put a line down the channel but channels move. Pretty hard standard of evidence. Even if they dropped a waypoint on you you could say the GPS is wrong.

Generally, it’s not hard at all to tell which state you’re in – there are channel markers and you’re either fishing on the MN side of the channel (green) or the WI side (red). Very few people ever fish in the middle of the main channel. Only in a very few places does the main channel not represent the state border.

It IS as clear as mud, but if you’re from WI, technically when you’re on the MN side of the river you have to follow MN rules, which differ from WI rules for the same waters, obviously.

If Wisconsin specified which regulations to follow the same way that MN does for its fishermen (follow our rules everywhere!) then the imaginary line debate wouldn’t exist, but it doesn’t. It says, “When in MN, do as the regulation-loving-policy-wonks-without-a-clue would have you do.”