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

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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!!

I’ve no problem with it.

Dutchboy wrote:

I’ve no problem with it.

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

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

I like the idea but in wisconsin!

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

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.

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

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!

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

fins wrote:

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……….

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

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

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.

Can you not read glen? I said fish.