Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-05-04
First Part OfThe
Fishing Season
|StartedOn Mayl
Pike, Pickerel and Other
Species May be Taken on
May Is.

With the close or the legislature,
and the final passage of the omnibus
seasons bill, fishing and hunting sea-
sons are established. The final draft
of the bill leaves the seasons sub
stantially as they were previously,
except that an open season is pro-
vided for beaver.
The lake trout season opened the
day following the adjournment of
the legislature. The new dates for
lake trout fishing are from December
l to September Is in all inland lakes,
and from December l to October l
in Lake Superior. The limits on lake
trout are five daily and 10 in posses
sion.
The season on stream trout, in
Guiding all species except lake trout,
opens on May l and remains open
until September l. Daily limit is
Is, with rs trout or 20 pounds the
possession limit.
Lake Fishing Starts May Is.
On May Is, the season on wall
eyed pike, saugers or sand pike, great
northern pike, pickerel and muskel-
lunge opens and remains open until
February Is. Daily limit for pike
is the possession limit on pickerel,
and two the daily and possession
limit on muskellunge.
The line between the northern and
southern zones which formerly fol-
lowed township lines has been
changed to follow state highways.
The new line starts at Browns VAL
ley on the west and follows high
way No. % to Sank Center, SO to ST.
Cloud, and 95 to Tayors Falls on the
east boundary of the state.
In the southern zone the crappie,
bass, rockbass, sunfish and all other
species of fish not definitely desig-
mated opens on May 20, and in the
northern zone these seasons open on
June 81. The crappie season closes
February Is; sunfish and rockbass
December 81, and large and small
mouth bass closes December 1.
Graphic daily limit is Is, ant. the
possession limit Is. Sunfish and rock
bass daily limit is Is and possession
limit 80. On large mouth and small
mouth black bass the daily limit is
six and possession limit IL.
Yellow perch may be taken without
limit.
Resident License is Same.
The resident fishing license re-
mains at SO cents for every one 18
years of age and over, and the pro-
vision that all resident fishing licenses
must be purchased in the county of
the fishermen's residence will be
rigidly enforced. The law specifically
states that resident licenses may be
sold only to residents of the county
in which they are sold. Under the
law, both the buyer and seller of the
license are liable, and fishermen found
fishing with licenses not issued in the
county of their actual residence will
be held as having no proper license.
The object of the law is to prevent
non-residents from purchasing the
cheaper resident license, claiming res
idence in another part of the state.
Beaver Season Is On.
The season for trapping beaver is
open in 10 counties of northern Min
nesota for eight days from May to
9, both dates inclusive, in accordance
with the law passed by the recent
legislature.
The open counties are Kittson,
Roseau, Marshall, Lake of the Woods,
Beltrami, Koochiching, Hubbard,
Itasca, Cass, Wadena, Crow Wing,
Aitkin, st. Louis, Lake, Cook, Carl
ton, Pine, Kanabec and Isanti. No
trapping will be permitted, however,
in game refugees or state parks.
The law requires a $3.50 license
for trapping beaver, and in addition
$1.00 tag attached to each pelt. The
season limit is eight and beaver may
be taken only by trapping.
The law as passed permits a 15-day
season and bag limit of 10, but
upon the recommendation of the
biologists and technicians, the season
was reduced to eight days and the
bag limit to eight. The season is
opened only in counties where the
survey indicates that there are suf-
fcient beaver to permit legal har-
vest of pelts, or where numerous
farmers have submitted beaver dam
age claims and complaints for flood
ing haylands, according to Director
Harry E. Speakes.
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