Extra $10 to fish 2 lines?

[KTapper]

I wouldn't pay for it. I need 1 hand for my beer.

NICE! 

[finch]

I'm sure they look at it moreso for the out of state people who flock to MN every year to fish the land of lakes.  people come in for fishing, go to buy their OOS license, see an option to throw another line out and they think, "hell yes! now I will catch twice as many fish in half the time!"

or, that's how I interpret what they're after with this bill.  as far as fishing 2 lines in the summer, I do it regularly here in SD...  one rod set up with a minnow on a lindy rig and the other set up with a jig and bobber for crappies.  it's nice to catch a variety of fish in one place.

[ironranger29]

I Wouldnt! No way not after what i seen on vermillion! A guy next to me caught an eye, he forgot his tape so i let him use mine and i helped him measure it too. 16 and 3/4" with the tail pinched. We measured it 2 or 3 times(just to make sure) it was under 17". Hour later DNR showed up(didnt even ask to see our licenses)and started lookin at everybody's fish. So he grabbed the 16 3/4" and laid it down, "And Stretched it out! He was literally pulling on the fish lifting its body up". He stretched it right out to 17"! So the debate started! The Dnr said,"this is the proper way to measure a fish. And this one is OVER! And wrote the guy a ticket!!!       I lost all respect for the DNR after pulling a stunt like that!

[sandmannd]

No pun intended ironranger, but that's streatching it. I think it's a little rediculous if they are going to be so anal that you have to pull hard to get it to barely hit 17". Personally I won't keep a fish within 1/4 of an inch of the slot. I've heard, and your story is a prime example, that fish will relax in the livewell and can gain that extra 1/4".

[Cody Gruchow]

i thought fish shrink a little after they been in the livewell for awhile?

[MetallMilitia]

i dont think that fishing with 2 lines in the summer is necessary.  that would put more pressure on the fish and i feel that fish numbers would go down

I Wouldnt! No way not after what i seen on vermillion! A guy next to me caught an eye, he forgot his tape so i let him use mine and i helped him measure it too. 16 and 3/4" with the tail pinched. We measured it 2 or 3 times(just to make sure) it was under 17". Hour later DNR showed up(didnt even ask to see our licenses)and started lookin at everybody's fish. So he grabbed the 16 3/4" and laid it down, "And Stretched it out! He was literally pulling on the fish lifting its body up". He stretched it right out to 17"! So the debate started! The Dnr said,"this is the proper way to measure a fish. And this one is OVER! And wrote the guy a ticket!!!       I lost all respect for the DNR after pulling a stunt like that!

No Way! its your measuring. its almost impossible to make a fish get longer, dead or not.  i've lived at a resort my whole life and we've tried everything to see if you can make a fish longer.  nope.  we've tried to bend them in half and snap their backs, smash their backs, we've tried to both, dead and alive.   it's nearly impossible. 

[Big E]

I would pay a extra $10 for another line in a second. One with a bobber and casting with the other. IN A SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MNBucKKiller]

I would for catfish on the river otherwise I'm fine using one line

[HD]

I prolly would...
For trolling planer boards out the side and running down riggers on the big pond.

[GRIZ]

I'd never pay for it but see no reason why we can't use 2 lines. It's just another scam to try and get more money just like the multi deer lic thing. They can't manage the money they have so there no reason they'd be able to manage more money.

[Tyler Rother]

So they'll allow an uncased gun to and from hunting locations(sure it will be for road hunters too), but they wont extend the 2 line for all year, no different then ice fishing, cept you can cast away from the boat. Oh wait, there is no difference...Tip ups. Our DNR has to go, and a different structure to be built. Sad to see Pawlenty leave.