The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-04-14
FISH SEASON
Open april Is
Several Seasons on Various
Species of Fish Will Open
Next Week.

Minnesota'S parade of fishing season
opening dates will get under way April
Is when thousands of anglers will in
wade northern Minnesota lakes for the
beginning of the lake trout season.
From this date on, four more fishing
season opening dates are scheduled, &C
cording to the Minnesota Tourist Bur-
eau. The bureau expects tremendous
influx of nonresident anglers during
1888 because of widely extended pro-
pagation activities, the ban on all winter
fishing and the states fish rescue work.
The next season, following the lake
trout opening April Is, will be the
opening of the stream trout angling on
May l. Then, on May Is, the season
on wall-eyed pike, pickerel, northern
pike, yellow perch and muskellunge will
open
Next the season on crappies, bass and
sunfish will open May 20 in the south
ern zone. This includes all lakes in the
state south of an imaginary line drawn
from Morris on the west to Cambridge
on the east, running through st. Cloud
and dividing the state approximately
in half.
Finally, on June 81, the crappie, bass
and sunfish season will open in the
northern zone, north of this imaginary
line. The seasons will continue until
the lake freeze-up next fall.
With the opening of the lake trout
season several resorts among the deep,
| glacially formed lakes of northeastern
Minnesota and around Ely and Tower
will open to accommodate anglers. The
little, picturesque town of Grand Marais
at the head of the famous Gunflint trail
leading to these lakes, is preparing for
record influx of fishermen.
Preliminary reports indicate, accord
ing to the Minnesota Tourist Bureau
that such Gunflint trail lakes as Green
wood, Little Saganaga, Poplar, Cler-
water, Mountain and acknowledgements
will yield heavy quota of lake trout as
they have done for many years in the
past. There are any number of smaller
lakes near the end of the Gunflint trail
providing excellent lake trout fishing
In the Ely-Tower region the best trout
fishing will be obtained in Thomas and
Snowbank lakes, east of the end OF
the Fernberg lookout trail, and in Lake
Vermilion, according to local residents
Tackle, for the first two weeks of the
season, may be somewhat light, 30
pound test line and large spoon being
favored. The fishing will be mostly in
shore casting and trolling, since lake
trout do not seek the deeper and colder
waters until hot weather sets in.
Limits on the various species of fish
in Minnesota are: wall-eyed pike, eight
per day, ,16 in possession; pickerel, 1C
per day, 20 in possession; yellow perch
no limit; muskellunge, two per day, nc
possession limit; crappies, Is per day
Is in possession; bass, six per day, Il
in possession; stream trout, IL per day
25 in possession; lake trout, five pei
day, 10 in possession; Sunfish, Is pei
day, 80 in possession; northern pike
10 per day, 20 in possession.
Nonresident licenses will cost 81 pei
individual, but nonresident children
under Is are not required to have Ii.
cenSes Minnesota does not issue non.
resident family licenses.
Each nonresident possessing a licenst
may ship to himself, at his home, 2.
pounds of game fish in the aggregate
or one fish weighing over that amount
Resident individual fishing license
will cost so cents and resident famil.
licenses 81. Resident children under /;
require no license.