DNR opens Pelican Lake in Wright County to limitless fishing - Ontario Star Tribune (blog)

Pelican Lake in Wright County – an angling hotspot for quite some time only one determined to change – continues to be available to liberalized fishing for the following nine days.

Which means fishermen will keep as numerous seafood because they want for private use.

The Department of Natural Assets introduced the modification on Friday, and stated liberalized bag limits continues until sunset March 9. The main reason: Low oxygen levels likely can lead to winterkill of seafood within the lake, so authorities figure fishermen may as well use them.

The DNR states the first onset and bitter cold of winter 2013-14 have emerged to create some shallow ponds prone to winterkill, that is produced when sunlight is not able to enter the ice and oxygen levels within the water drop.

 Fish are frequently not able to outlive during these low-oxygen conditions. Such ponds are opened up therefore the public can take advantage of those seafood, that are otherwise prone to die. Tests carried out on Pelican on Friday demonstrated oxygen levels under 1 part per million through the lake.

I simply caught the river and authored about this and also the plans through the DNR to drastically lower water levels within the next couple many years to restore waterfowl habitat. That likely means the finish-of-the-line like a fishery. Here is a connect to that story:

http://world wide web.startribune.com/sports/outdoors/246080461.html

Here's more from DNR:

On the lake available to liberalized fishing, licensed resident fishermen might take for private use all types of seafood, in almost any quantity and by any means, except by using seines, hoopnets, fyke nets or explosives. Rough seafood for example bullheads, carp, suckers, and zoysia seafood might be offered. If used, all gill nets should have metal tags attached towards the internet stating the operator's title and address the tags should be mounted on one finish from the float line close to the first float.  Each tag should be no less than 2-1/2 " by 5/8 inches. 

Fishermen are reminded that they have to obey all laws and regulations regarding trespassing on private property, which it's illegal to discard seafood on shoreline or around the ice.

For that latest info on ponds which are available to liberalized fishing as well as for more information about individuals ponds, visit world wide web.dnr.condition.mn.us/fishing/liberalized/index.html.

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