After 10 (or more?) years of trying, Wisconsin bassers finally got through the dense fog in their state legislators’ brains and now can cull.
Except in waters that border Minnesota.
That’s right. Even though Wisconsin allows culling statewide and Minnesota allows culling in all its inland waters, Minnesota still does not allow culling in border waters in the following situations:
> WI-based derbies for fish caught on the MN side.
> All derbies launching from the MN side.
Here’s a quote from an email a BassParader received from someone (name withheld) at the MN DNR:
Discussed this with Enforcement. They decided that for WI-based contests, they will not honor that [cull] provision. So organizers will have to caution their participants not to cull on the MN side. Of course, MN-based contests will have no change, meaning no cull bank to bank.
Of course! What an amazing amount of sense that makes!
I guess you can’t fault Enforcement because they’re just reading the rulebook (though you MN folks weigh in on that). But who the heck wrote this rulebook and can we get them to stop drooling long enough to rewrite this part of it?
Word is one of the folks on the MN rules committee did the voice over for the young vulture in this cartoon classic:
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BryanT
June 10, 2011 at 9:40 am
WTF!!!!
That’s all I have.
Bass Pundit
June 11, 2011 at 1:59 am
Maybe it gets changed for next year. WI changed their game when the season had already started. If MN doesn’t change for next year, then it’s lame.
Bass Pundit
June 11, 2011 at 2:00 am
Oh yeah and the Cheeseheads have no one to blame but themselves for this. It’s their rule that we adopted.
admin (mostly Jay)
June 13, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Good point. I’m still going with the vulture though….
Dan Brovareny
June 13, 2011 at 7:28 pm
In it’s strange little way we still don’t know what this means.
MN/WI boundry waters are different from MN waters or WI waters. The way that this has been been treated in the past is that the water between the railroad tracks is treated as boundry waters and has a seperate set of roles that waters on the states side of the railroad tracks.
What that would mean (I think) is that WI events with WI permits can cull up to the Tracks on the MN side.
It might be a good idea to get the WI DNR to post an interpretation on thier website.