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Josh, I think we agree more than we realize.
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My understanding on this situation has been this…you are bound by the rules of your home state. I had been told that a MN resident could not fish the Wisconsin bass opener on the St Croix, EVEN IF they purchased a WI non resident license. Your home state has rules and seasons, so when it came to MN/WI border waters, MN residents were bound to the MN opener on the St Croix. I have been applying that to ALL rules, regardless of what side you are fishing on. I was told border waters are border waters, and the same rules applied throughout as defined by your home state regulations. I know that puts a crimp in some catfishermens tactics as far as fishing with bluegill or whatever, but following that logic would definitely keep you out of trouble.
I think this guy is a nutjob
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You are not bound by the rules of your home state. Thats ridiculous! Say you are a MN resident without a MN fishig license but instead ONLY have a WI non-res license. Are you still bound to MN rules because you live there??? I completely discredit anything this guys says.
I don’t think nutjob is a fair ascertaition, lol. Even if this conversation was recent, as I stated in the thread it was from a researcher. While the other 3 answers were from CO’s.
As he stated that logic was just to keep you out of trouble, and as Brian stated, he has seen people get ticketed on the WI side by MN DNR.
And in regards to the fishing opener laws, I believe that only changed in Sept. 2008 (Or rather that’s the last time the law pertaining to that was updated.
And actually as far as I know Biggill, you have to have a MN license to fish MN/WI boundary waters.
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“Minnesota has a reciprocal agreement with each of
its bordering states: Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota.
Residents of Minnesota or a bordering state may fish throughout the
waters bordering the two states only if they possess a valid resident
license from their resident state.”
Joel’s stance was to keep people out of dealing with trouble’s that arise(the quote never even stated it was the law), just as my stance that none of us should just take things how they are and assume we are ok… because obviously we have all received different responses from different CO’s..
The Rube Goldberg machine of laws that build up over time, have left us in a scenerio where even if by all technicality it is legal, we still could have to go through the trouble of fighting it in court. My intent in all this is to get us a clear cut solid answer, so I don’t have to miss a day of work and much less get dressed up and sit in a stuffy court room and make a big flow chart of the laws and be like see! The water trickles through these 40 different water wheels and comes out right here where it’s legal!
