2007 Minnesota Fishing Regulations

  • steve-demars
    Stillwater, Minnesota
    Posts: 1906
    January 9, 2007 at 10:19 pm #1227968

    Here is the link to the 2007 Minnesota Fishing Regulations:
    2007 Minnesota Fishing Regulations

    The St Croix fishing opener is April 28, 2007.
    The St Croix border waters information starts on page 53.

    Charlie “Turk” Gierke
    Hudson Wisconsin
    Posts: 1020
    January 10, 2007 at 12:05 am #520509

    Thanks for the info Commanch! I was just wondering when the walleye season opens. April 28th sounds good to me!

    Turk

    steveo
    W Central Sconnie
    Posts: 4102
    January 10, 2007 at 2:53 am #520559

    any fal-de-ral about when the ‘Sconni folks can fish this year?

    sandbar
    Woodbury, MN
    Posts: 1027
    January 10, 2007 at 1:47 pm #520683

    Quote:

    any fal-de-ral about when the ‘Sconni folks can fish this year?

    Walleye season on the St. Croix opens July 4th for the cheeseheads.

    G_Smitty
    New Richmond, WI
    Posts: 1359
    January 10, 2007 at 9:25 pm #521032

    I doubt WI-DNR got it straight for this year… they never seem to be able to communicate with MN-DNR. I believe the regs for MN is the saturday closest to May 1 while WI’s regs are the first Saturday in May or something like that. I’ll check the DNR website to see if there’s any hint of a change…

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    January 15, 2007 at 3:23 am #522768

    Actually King…your selling the WI DNR short…this time. MN agreed to a date for last years opener…then changed it…and didn’t notify the WI DNR…

    Stuff happens…we all got to go fishing…and some of us..not me…even caught some!

    G_Smitty
    New Richmond, WI
    Posts: 1359
    January 15, 2007 at 5:12 am #522843

    Hey BK… yeah, maybe I’m being ‘too harsh’ on WI-DNR … what I heard was that MN and WI DNRs got together and agreed that they should have the same regs for the Croix – don’t know what happened but I don’t think either side made any changes yet ? So it is again this year – MN residents open on April 28th and WI residents don’t open until the next week…

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    January 15, 2007 at 3:08 pm #522899

    The “don’t know part” was that the MN DNR didn’t do what they said they would do…

    But in the grand scheme of things…my advice to both DNR’s is… “Can’t we just get along and stop confusing the anglers!”

    G_Smitty
    New Richmond, WI
    Posts: 1359
    January 15, 2007 at 7:05 pm #523034

    I thought I read somewhere that the WI DNR had a hearing sometime last year and that they would be changing the Croix opener to coincide with MN’s date… I’ll have to do some research to see if I can find that. Also, I recall that last spring the CO’s only did ‘public education’ stops if you were out early with a WI license (not ticketing – just reminding that WI opened a week later…). This sort of mix-up between border states has to be terribly frustrating to those guys too…

    steveo
    W Central Sconnie
    Posts: 4102
    January 16, 2007 at 1:20 am #523251

    like every year I will fish on the St Croix opener. some things never change. I’ve never been stopped on that weekend and I will plead ignorance if I ever am…

    timmy
    Posts: 1960
    January 17, 2007 at 5:36 pm #524072

    Quote:

    I’ve never been stopped on that weekend and I will plead ignorance if I ever am…

    Last year on the opener, I was stopped by Park Rangers. They checked my license(WI) and never said a word. They also never asked to look at the stringer I had out. They were very polite and just said to have a nice time .

    Tim

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