Is pool#2 still C&R only ?
November 10, 2010 at 2:49 pm
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Pool #2 question
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November 10, 2010 at 2:58 pm #908846
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For walleyes, saugers, pike and bass yes C&R only.
and Lunge
Wilton, WINovember 10, 2010 at 3:46 pm #908852Why is it catch and release?
November 10, 2010 at 3:54 pm #908855Quote:
Why is it catch and release?
Experimental regs. They come up for review every 10 years or so. Hope they never expire!
-J.
Wilton, WINovember 10, 2010 at 3:57 pm #908856Sure are some hogs!
November 10, 2010 at 4:12 pm #908859November 10, 2010 at 9:59 pm #908963Catch and release is fantastic down there. Not sure if I would ever want to eat one out of there. They look healthy enough. The taste would be more the issue. Im sure those ones hanging out at the discharge pipe of Pigseye sewage treatment plant would be extra tasty.
November 12, 2010 at 12:39 pm #909216I hate cleaning fish, so I especially wouldnt want to deal w/ a northern, but you can legally harvest pike.
C&R is only for walleye, LM/SM bass and sauger.
Can someone confirm this?
November 12, 2010 at 12:47 pm #909219Looks to me like you can keep pike.
JP
January 26, 2011 at 12:30 am #930382with the pcb and mercury warnings, and all the crap 3m is dumping in there, do you really want to keep the fish from p2??
January 26, 2011 at 3:03 am #930451Good question. Dont think I would make those fish my main diet.
January 26, 2011 at 8:34 pm #930706Quote:
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Sure are some hogs!
There woldnt be if the regs expired. At least twice every spring I hear people say ” I sure wish I could keep one of these for my wall ”
There’d be just as many trophy walleyes in pool2 then as there are trophy muskies in 2 now if it wasn’t C&R.
Tim, perhaps we should take opportunities like that to educate people that replica mounts are far superior to skin mounts as well as cheaper. No reason to kill a fish unless you are going to eat it. They may not even know that.
January 26, 2011 at 11:30 pm #930784Quote:
with the pcb and mercury warnings, and all the crap 3m is dumping in there, do you really want to keep the fish from p2??
3M is not dumping anything into pool 2. 3M (And many, many other companies) polluted the air and the run off from rain goes to the river. Maybe we are saying the same thing?
PCB, Mercury and other pollutants are in all Minnesota waters. There are lakes in the boundary waters that have more Mercury than pool 2.
People eat pool 3 and pool 4 fish every year. Where does the water in pool 4 come from?
River bottom sediment holds the most pollution. It’s pretty much glued there until it gets churned up from barges, dredging and flooding.
The advisories for harvest-able fish are not that much different on pool 2 than other waters. Yes, you would be just fine eating a 16 inch pool 2 walleye.
For me, I like the myth that pool 2 is a cesspool. Keeps people away. A fishery like pool 2 smack dead in the center of 2.85 million people needs protection. Or even better, a bad reputation and perception of polluted wasteland.
-J.
January 27, 2011 at 4:01 pm #931016Pool 2 is a sewer filled w/ 3 eyed fish and your boat gets coated in slimy gooey ooze that you cant scrub off.
I wouldnt go near it, but to each his own.
February 1, 2011 at 11:09 pm #932510read this article from MN conservation volunteer or at least the whopper walleye portion Pool 2 article
February 2, 2011 at 9:37 pm #932932Amen Jon. That polluted 29 incher I caught last summer sure made for a nice picture!
February 7, 2011 at 7:51 pm #934711Quote:
Tim, perhaps we should take opportunities like that to educate people that replica mounts are far superior to skin mounts as well as cheaper. No reason to kill a fish unless you are going to eat it. They may not even know that.
what if we just like to kill fish?
February 7, 2011 at 9:42 pm #934773The experimental regs keep some people away as well. They don’t want to fish where they can’t keep. The flip side is that there a plenty of walleyes being kept and eaten by folks who plead ignorance or just don’t follow the rules. I also don’t want the regs to change. Just about every real big walleye I’ve caught has come out of 2.
dd
February 7, 2011 at 10:43 pm #934809Pool 2 has to be a catch and release fishery. No need to change anything.
However, the response time for the TIP line needs to be a little faster. I have seen, walleyes being kept, ran up the hills into the woods and stashed. I called TIP and nobody ever showed up while I was there (35 mins). I even told the guy that I called the DNR, but he didnt understand me, must have been my accent.
My biggest walleye was from pool 2. Can Not Wait.
March 3, 2011 at 5:06 am #943275Good stuff, but this sentence lends to another question:
“Separate handling of storm water and wastewater, as required by the act, has led to the recovery of large rivers in the metro, according to Peterson. “At the Pig’s Eye wastewater treatment plant, they discharge water that is cleaner than the river,” he says.”
They say “cleaner” water, what does that mean?
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read this article from MN conservation volunteer or at least the whopper walleye portion Pool 2 article
March 3, 2011 at 2:25 pm #943434It means they clean waste water (toilet and sink) to a certain quality and then release it into the mississippi. The water coming out of there is crystal clear. Tons of weeds grow in the channel because the water is so clear and clean. Storm water from roads is still released directly into lakes and rivers though.
March 3, 2011 at 4:39 pm #943540thats what I was hoping to hear.. thanks
March 3, 2011 at 5:46 pm #943594Quote:
3M is not dumping anything into pool 2. 3M (And many, many other companies) polluted the air and the run off from rain goes to the river. Maybe we are saying the same thing?
according to the Trib they are…
IMO there is a lot we could do to clean up the river…and then if we kept the regs the fishing might be … dare I say it…even better.
JP
March 3, 2011 at 6:35 pm #943615Did anyone hear about the oil spill from the refinery in St Paul park last summer? Sure did enjoy loading up my boat in a oil slick for a few days at Lions levee. My guess would be that it was swept under the rug pretty fast. Tried talking to the guys trying to clean it up and hush was the word.
I agree there is still a lot that needs to be done to improve the river.
March 4, 2011 at 2:37 am #943811I saw a bunch of yellow floaties and a few guys from an environmental clean up place. Kinda figured thats what happened but never heard anything about it.
March 4, 2011 at 6:54 am #943827That article pretty much sums it up..PFCs will stay in the bottom like someone else mentioned forever, or until they endlessly dredge the river like they’ve done on the Charles in Boston, MA.
I heard they were fined 60m last year for this crap.
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3M is not dumping anything into pool 2. 3M (And many, many other companies) polluted the air and the run off from rain goes to the river. Maybe we are saying the same thing?
according to the Trib they are…
IMO there is a lot we could do to clean up the river…and then if we kept the regs the fishing might be … dare I say it…even better.
JP
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