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Location: Menasha, WI | The emergency rules approved Wednesday will go into effect as soon as they can be published by the Wisconsin State Journal, the state newspaper of record, likely within the week. Under the emergency rules: Boaters and anglers:- May not leave the bank or shore of any water with any live fish or live fish eggs, including left over minnows. There are limited exceptions to the rule for wild bait harvest.
- Must drain all water from bilges, ballast, live wells, bait buckets and other containers when they leave the bank or shore of any water.
- May not use dead fish, fish eggs, or fish parts for bait. Exceptions: if they are fishing in Lake Michigan or Green Bay or any waters connected to these waters upstream to the first dam or other obstruction impassible to fish; if they are fishing in the same water where the bait was collected; if it was preserved by a method that does not require refrigeration or freezing, or if the bait was a live minnow that dies while the person who possesses it is on the water, bank or shore.
- May not use or possess live fish or live fish eggs as bait if obtained outside Wisconsin. Exceptions: bait will be used on the Mississippi River “between the tracks” and if the bait was imported in compliance with DATCP rules.
Lot more info at: http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/news/rbnews/BreakingNews_Lookup.asp?id=681 |
| I am,also,having trouble downloading the info.I don't understand the reasoning behind the dumping the minnow buckets.I can buy bait in Janesville,keep it aeriated in a large strofoam bucket,fish on the Wolf,never change the water and still have to dump the bucket when I'm done! That the good of that?No contaminated fish or water has left the site.Who moniters the condition of the bait and water I brought in?What's next,no live bait fishing? Sounds like another law,like those regarding culling and poaching,that are tough to inforce and,therefore, ineffective.The law also states that I cannot throw fish guts or carcasses into the water.If I bleed my fish in the livewell and pump the water back into the lake,am I littering?It is fish blood.
These regulations seem like a feeble attemp to prevent the inevitable. At very least,will greatly inconvenience consiensious,law-abiding fishermen and have no effect on the rest. |
