Year-Round Bass Season Is On The Table In Minnesota What are your thoughts?

  • Gary Korsgaden
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    Posts: 126
    #2324196

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    Opportunity to expand early season angling statewide.
    No biological evidence that Minnesota bass populations are stressed. …
    No biological evidence that catch-and-release fishing will pose a conservation issue. …
    There are enforcement concerns that offering early angling for bass may increase opportunities for anglers to target walleye and pike during their closed seasons. ..

    Am not a bass fisherman, am curious to how others feel about a year-round bass season!!

    Dutchboy
    Central Mn.
    Posts: 17437
    #2324206

    I’ve no problem with it.

    glenn57
    cold spring mn/ itasca cty
    Posts: 12984
    #2324207

    I’ve no problem with it.

    me either, I don’t purposely fish for them anyway

    Full draw
    Posts: 1535
    #2324208

    I am all for it as well as a year round walleyes season with catch and release from February till May.

    Ripjiggen
    Posts: 12960
    #2324213

    No issue with it, why stop at bass is my question.

    gim
    Plymouth, MN
    Posts: 18881
    #2324215

    If they were trying to protect bass when they were spawning, they could make it C & R WHEN they actually spawn – in May/June. Not in March and April. Clearly having it completely closed is protecting the sacred walleye instead. Zero science behind it. They don’t want people “walleye fishing for bass.”

    No other state in the country has a completely closed season for bass except Maine.

    Some years there might not be a whole lot of time before the walleye/pike opener to even do much of it, depending on the weather. Some years there might be a whole month or more though (like last year).

    Wisconsin changed theirs years ago. Quite often, MN follows suit. So I would expect it to occur, perhaps by 2026.

    Enforcement discretion could occur in some situations. I could also see some lakes prohibiting it because of special lake-specific regs.

    Youbetcha
    Wright County
    Posts: 3151
    #2324222

    Im all for it. It would be a nice way to get kids out before the lakes are full of pleasure boaters too.

    fins
    Posts: 289
    #2324227

    Why is there a season closure for any species? That’s the dumbest thing ever. It doesn’t matter when you kill a fish, it’s not reproducing the following year anyways. Minnesota sucks!

    Umy
    South Metro
    Posts: 2104
    #2324229

    Wow…..
    Personally I am all for it.
    I am catch and release every specie anyway.
    Let’s git er dun!

    glenn57
    cold spring mn/ itasca cty
    Posts: 12984
    #2324233

    Why is there a season closure for any species? That’s the dumbest thing ever. It doesn’t matter when you kill a fish, it’s not reproducing the following year anyways. Minnesota sucks!

    so.your saying then no seasons for ducks, deer grouse………. doah

    you did say species?????????/

    smallie83
    Posts: 112
    #2324242

    Bass fisherman and it probably wouldn’t make a huge difference for me, most years. I’m for it, though my wife probably isnt…

    buckybadger
    Upper Midwest
    Posts: 9032
    #2324244

    I’d love to see year round for all fish, and just roll with the same bag limits 365 days a year on all waters.

    This would lower the traffic on the river here for sure. Make it happen MNDNR.

    fins
    Posts: 289
    #2324252

    Can you not read glen? I said fish.

    B-man
    Posts: 6658
    #2324254

    Glenn57

    Even though he was talking about fish, you bring up a GREAT point that I’ve thought about more than once.

    Chew on this and get back to me.

    One must first acknowledge that hunting and fishing “seasons” are made up man-made “dates”.

    Now please explain how killing a pregnant doe in November is any different than killing that same deer in June???

    Either way the fawn(s) won’t survive. Dead in the womb or dead from malnourishment.

    One is certainly more cruel than the other, but at the end of the day they’re all eliminated before the next “season”.

    Openers are a ton of fun and traditional, but when math and biology come down to it, it’s all about total mortality.

    It doesn’t matter “when” the mortality happens during a 365 day period…it only depends on how much there is.

    Fish…deer…ducks…grouse…turkeys… bears… pheasants…etc…all the same.

    Anyone please prove me wrong mrgreen

    This concludes tonights Deep Thinking with B-man

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