StarTribune.com Mobile | News, weather, sports: "Minnesota’s bass fishing season would open statewide on the walleye opener under a proposal by the Department of Natural Resources.
“I’m all for it,’’ said Vern Wagner, a longtime bass-fishing addict and vice president of Anglers for Habitat, which pushed for the change.
There is a caveat: The first two weeks of the bass season would be catch-and-release only everywhere except the northeast, where the season currently opens two weeks before the rest of the state.
“With climate change, bass populations are expanding in Minnesota,’’ said Linda Erickson-Eastwood, DNR fisheries program manager. “We decided to get rid of the split season between the northeast and the rest of the state.’’
Wagner agrees with the DNR that the additional fishing shouldn’t hurt the bass population. The traditional bass opener was intended to protect spawning bass, but Wagner said bass often are spawning even after the season opens.
It is among several proposed fishing regulation changes the DNR intends to adopt and is accepting comments."
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