Big Fish In The News

  • brittlab
    North Central Iowa
    Posts: 187
    February 27, 2014 at 5:56 pm #1392362

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    The cops seeing him with the first 4 lb fish was the clincher. BTW how many of you rules junkies count your fish separately when fishing with friends in the same boat?

    We cannot party fish here in Iowa, so we keep our limits separate unless we are just going to keep one limit (6 eyes, 25 bluegill, 25 crappie, etc). I have been checked and asked to see each person’s limit.. and I have seen others caught with a stringer of 25+ white bass (two people) and the CO told them to separate them right there and make two separate limits.

    When in MN you can party fish, so we just use one livewell and keep a combined total.

    I thought Iowa limit was 5 walleyes?

    BBKK
    IA
    Posts: 4033
    February 27, 2014 at 6:10 pm #1392365

    We can keep 6 on the river.

    dandorn
    M.I.N.N.E.S.O.T.A.
    Posts: 3211
    February 28, 2014 at 7:46 am #1392465

    Technically the guy was done fishing for lakers once he had one on the ice. Right?

    timmy
    Posts: 1960
    February 28, 2014 at 8:14 am #1392489

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    Technically the guy was done fishing for lakers once he had one on the ice. Right?

    Technically, he was supposed be done KEEPING lakers after keeping the first fish. Even if he would have given it away to his nephew, he would still have legally been done keeping them.

    I would wager that most people in the same situation would have done the same thing. 50# is an awful lot of fish…..it is worlds apart from anything 99.9% of trout fisherman will ever even remotely witness.

    IceAsylum
    Wisconsin Dells WI
    Posts: 956
    February 28, 2014 at 8:59 am #1392515

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    I understand that the guy technically broke the rules, seems like he understands that too. Give him a ticket, but let him keep the record fish

    So for the person that catches one just under the record does the same philosophy apply. So basically once you get your first fish you can purchase the second for the price of a fine?

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    February 28, 2014 at 9:36 am #1392531

    MI allows a person to snag state records.

    All a person has to do is say it wasn’t snagged and don’t “act guilty” per MI DNR.

    belletaine
    Nevis, MN
    Posts: 5116
    February 28, 2014 at 10:05 am #1392546

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    MI allows a person to snag state records.

    All a person has to do is say it wasn’t snagged and don’t “act guilty” per MI DNR.

    Haha! They also use figure eight shaped auger blades.

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