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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
. How does the MP determine if you are fishing trout, which is not legal, or bass, which is legal, this time of year?
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Marine Patrol does not enforce Fish & Game rules and regulations. Granted the two departments can work together when needed but it is not generally their mission to do Fish & Game's job. They are really not trained for it.
How does Fish & Game know if you are breaking the law?
By watching you
very very closely, the same way as if you were hunting on land and was going after / targeting a species of game that is out of season. There are lots of things.. you can not hunt for.. at different times of different hunting seasons. The same rules somewhat apply to fishing.
There are places on the lake right now during this fall / winter season that you can not fish at all no matter what type of fish you would like to catch.
It's all in the rule books for each body of water.
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More on topic, I was out with my son the day after Thanksgiving from sunup to sundown, and my son with his cousin was on the water once again from sunup to sundown Thursday and Saturday this past week fishing. Not that good as far as fishing was concerned, but having the lake just about all to yourself for the whole day was great.
On Thursday a lot of the backwater coves had a thin covering of ice on them, nothing that a boat could not cut through with the trolling motor. On Saturday they said all the ice was gone.