I do believe that we should have the DNR make these decisions other than those elected officials that know nothing about our fisheries.
Only issue with that is, there will more than likely be no open water 2 lines.
I get a kick out of people saying a limit is a limit. This would only be true if a limit was possible every day, on every body of water, using only one line. Then two lines wouldn’t matter.
The point is most days it’s very hard to get a limit of fish and for most people a real rarity. Now give every one two lines, more fish would be kept. I’m not saying catching more fish is a bad thing. As a state we’d just have to take a look at limits or increase stocking. One of the two would have to be done to maintain quality fishing.
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Lots of interesting opinions. It seems that most of the arguments against the two line rule would be cured by slot limit revisions. A pontoon boat full of people keeping 10″ walleye would not be affected by a two line rule. Unethical fishing behavior will take place no matter how many lines are in use.
Actully it would, I think that pontoon had roughly 40 walleye in their basket. Give them each two lines and it’s more than likely going to be 60 in that basket instead.
I think we should ban guides too. Not only are guides going out and catching limits dang near every day, they also take clients out who are also catching limits. In essence, since the clients are using the guides knowledge, they are an extension of him. That means if a guy guides 2 people one day, it is like he is using 3 poles!
Have the DNR write up a good proposal for 2 lines and then have the clowns vote on it.
I do not believe any bill will ever pass without the support of the DNR.
I don’t believe the DNR will ever support 2 lines!
Then I highly doubt that there ever will be 2 lines.
Tru Dat! Unless we get a guy like Satveer in there who completely disregards the DNR’s opinions.
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I do not believe any bill will ever pass without the support of the DNR.
This is not true. Just ask the bowfishermen of MN.
I guess we will wait and see Mr BK.
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I guess we will wait and see Mr BK.
Nothing better to do huh? 
Not much else one can do.
I got something better to do, 36 hours and I am leaving for Rainy lake for 5 days. 
I hope my arms do not wear out from boating fish.
I am glad it didn’t pass, I would hate to think that we would have to find a new subject to argue about! 
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Lots of interesting opinions. It seems that most of the arguments against the two line rule would be cured by slot limit revisions. A pontoon boat full of people keeping 10″ walleye would not be affected by a two line rule. Unethical fishing behavior will take place no matter how many lines are in use.
Actully it would, I think that pontoon had roughly 40 walleye in their basket. Give them each two lines and it’s more than likely going to be 60 in that basket instead.
So if it there were less than 7 people in that boat, did you call the CO?
I would be in favor of a 15″ minimum and a 4 fish limit for Walleyes. It seems this whole debate is amongst walleye fishermen. I think most people measure fishing quality by the number of fish caught, not the number kept. I enjoy a meal of fish as much as the next guy, but that is seldom why I am out there. 
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It seems this whole debate is amongst walleye fishermen.
Ding ding…a walleye hook mortality dinner! 
But we can’t forget the Pike and Musky organizations either.
(notice I didn’t say Pike and Musky fishermen… )
Good Luck Tom! Break your back…guess that didn’t come out right. 
Scour hole? Anybody? 
Some great point of views from both sides! Wouldn’t it make more sense to start managing individual bodies of water in regard to limits, slots and lines as well? We do a little bit already and this is pretty common in some of our neighboring states such as WI. I believe there are bodies of water that fishing with two lines could/would damage the overall fishery. Other bodies of water that are already have a managed harvest quota set up by the DNR such as Mille Lacs, fishing with 2 lines would have less of an impact. The reason I say this is the DNR already manages the MN state angler harvest throughout the year and the DNR can and will make adjustments in slots if necessary and perhaps adjustments in the number of lines as well. Of course, I’m only talking about walleyes in this example and one lake. 
Keeping with the theme of Mille Lacs – the safe state angler quota in 2009 was 411,500. State anglers ended up only taking out 141,000 lbs. 
2 lines would probably have not helped much in reaching the safe quota but it certainly wouldn’t have hurt anything either.
Last year the state angler safe quota was 411,500. State anglers only took 271,000.
I realize this is just one lake but my point is manage each body of water individually and post those regs on the DNR website and at the boat landings and part of those regs would include the number of lines allowed on that particular body of water.
Another point – as of May 17th, licenses were down by 30 percent compared to last year – that’s over 110,000 licenses. Granted, the poor weather as a lot to do with that but that is still the lowest number of licenses sold in the past 12 years. Implementing a 2 line proposal stamp could help replace some of that lost revenue.
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