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Can you fish for bass out of season in MN?

Question by Hunting92. Uploaded on May 08, 2012

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from Dabeck19 wrote 1 year 5 weeks ago

From the Minnesota DNR fishing regulations book:

• You may not intentionally fish for any species during its closed season.

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from WA Mtnhunter wrote 1 year 5 weeks ago

....a blinding glimpse of the obvious.

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from therifleman wrote 1 year 5 weeks ago

You can't legally hunt or fish for any species in any state "out of season." I'll assume I misunderstood the question.

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from dtbc333 wrote 1 year 5 weeks ago

As the others have pointed out you obviously can't fish for any species outside of any legal season that is in place in the area you are fishing. I'm assuming(and kind of hoping) that you maybe meant can you fish for them in the winter? The answer is yes(again, assuming there is no legal season up there). The conventional way is to slow WAY, WAY down with soft plastics, but I also recently read an article in bassmaster magazine about burning spinnerbaits and cranks in cold water to get reaction strikes, and jig/w trailer is effective year round. The article is probably available on their website. It's generally much tougher fishing, but I've had some really productive cold weather days in the middle of winter myself, and you often have the water to yourself that time of year, so there are some advantages. Also, I have seen a few sporadic pictures on here of people pulling Largemouth through the ice.

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from jamesti wrote 1 year 4 weeks ago

if they are out of season i would say no. ok, i think i'm lost on this one.

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from dtbc333 wrote 1 year 5 weeks ago

As the others have pointed out you obviously can't fish for any species outside of any legal season that is in place in the area you are fishing. I'm assuming(and kind of hoping) that you maybe meant can you fish for them in the winter? The answer is yes(again, assuming there is no legal season up there). The conventional way is to slow WAY, WAY down with soft plastics, but I also recently read an article in bassmaster magazine about burning spinnerbaits and cranks in cold water to get reaction strikes, and jig/w trailer is effective year round. The article is probably available on their website. It's generally much tougher fishing, but I've had some really productive cold weather days in the middle of winter myself, and you often have the water to yourself that time of year, so there are some advantages. Also, I have seen a few sporadic pictures on here of people pulling Largemouth through the ice.

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from Dabeck19 wrote 1 year 5 weeks ago

From the Minnesota DNR fishing regulations book:

• You may not intentionally fish for any species during its closed season.

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from WA Mtnhunter wrote 1 year 5 weeks ago

....a blinding glimpse of the obvious.

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from therifleman wrote 1 year 5 weeks ago

You can't legally hunt or fish for any species in any state "out of season." I'll assume I misunderstood the question.

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from jamesti wrote 1 year 4 weeks ago

if they are out of season i would say no. ok, i think i'm lost on this one.

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