DC:
Wisconsin residents are allowed to carry firearms while fishing after the state rescinded a longstanding restriction on gun owners Wednesday.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty announced in a press release published June 6 that it filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), arguing that the ban infringed on the Second Amendment.
DNR announced the change Wednesday. The law had been in effect since 1999. more
Interesting. Here in Florida, open carry is banned unless you are engaged in, or on your way to/from, certain sporting activities, fishing being one of the few.
Good on ya, Wisconsinites!
No more fish pulling guns on unarmed fishermen.
About time.
Listening to the arguments for passing the law in 1999 would probably make you dumber.
The state was only trying to prevent firearms from being lost in boating accidents.
I stand corrected. LOL
Glad I could help.
Isn’t a fin a euphemism for a gun used in cheap crime novels like from Mickey Spillane? As well as for a 20-dollar bill.
de-colonizers in fla want you defenseless
When I was a child the musky fishermen would take along an actual billy club when they went looking for their trophy fish.
Now it’s cell phones and heavy-duty wire cutters to get the trophy fish off the line and back into the water with as little harm as possible.
I attended a meeting earlier this month about a multiyear study they are going to be doing on the apex sport fish in my lake, the musk (we’re a class A musky lake). The fish counts the DNR has done in recent years indicate that the muskies are getting bigger, but their numbers are declining. They are going tag and track both muskies and the invasive (for this lake) northern pike, which have been thriving over the last 20 years. I don’t expect good news from this study, but the biologists were really enthused.
On a final note related to the article, I’d expect the potential for a fellow angler to be armed is going to make for a more polite society out on the water and at the boat landings.
Finally some protection from ghetto fish!
^^^^^^ Back in and prior to the 60’s it was common practice to shoot legal size muskies before boating them, we used an H&R 32 cal revolver. Still have it. Then the practice was made illegal do to safety concerns is my understanding.
“On a final note related to the article, I’d expect the potential for a fellow angler to be armed is going to make for a more polite society out on the water and at the boat landings.”
I’ve spent a LOT of time on the water doing the Bass thing. The ramps and the lake are cool until the wake boarders show up. Two years ago early spring I’m headed to the far side of our lake. And as I go through the “Narrows” there a POS Wakeboard boat blocking me and my 78 MPH bast blaster from getting around him. A boat full of Bikini wearing girls with a dick at the wheel. So I finally get around them, with them laughing at me. I swung directly in front of them and eased up on the hot foot and watched the bow come down about six inches. I pinned the hot foot. Biggest rooster tail you ever seen. And every drop of it landed in that boat. Who’s laughing now bitches.
Dr. Tar
I thought Pike were the apex fish in most Wisconsin lakes and waterways?
@Brad, on muskie lakes the northern pike are invasive. What I really hate are the Tiger muskies which are like the mules, hybrid and sterile. The biologist reported counting more than a few on the lake. It means to me the pike are spawn over the muskies and we’ll soon be reduced to stocking to keep the population from crashing. The biologist called stocking a last resort and the end of whatever muskie genetics endemic to our lake which has been in isolation from other populations for a very long, long time.
Here’s a bit more on the study with a link within the article to the presentation I attended.
https://spiderchainoflakes.org/event-5781554
A ‘fin’ is a fiver, and a ‘sawbuck’ is a ten spot.
@Brad
Brother and I went out fishing, we always went during the week during warm weather, too many assholes and tourons otherwise.
Our favorite spot was at the mouth of a creek, channel on each side of a sandbar in the mouth, long creek, lots of fish.
We would anchor over the sandbar at high tide and fish each side until the motor started to bump on the bottom and then move into a channel. We were fishing, catching a few, here comes a go fast. We tried to wave him off, he picked up my brothers line and just like that, 300 yards of expensive 40lb braided Spectra and a float rig, about $50, gone.
About an hour after that the motor started to bump so we moved to deeper water.
Little bit later we could hear them coming, wide open, just like before. It was hilarious when they hit the bar, shit flew everywhere, people included.
We left them to their troubles, high and dry in a short time, would be at least 3 hours in the hot sun before there was enough water to refloat.
Even a king cannot stop the tides.
To make it double funny, they were fucking yankees, we could tell by all the nice names they called us as we motored off.
Dr. Tar
It’s good to see anglers getting involved in the management of their fisheries. NorCal Black Bass Association has fought the state of California tooth and nail and has literally saved the California Delta, arguably the best black bass fishery in the country, many times. Including the twin tunnel bull shit, shipping all of our water down south.
I haven’t been fishing nearly as much as I used to. But it turns out I have a 10 year old grandson that is all about fishing. Kind of got me motivated.