Dennis Anderson: Guide Dick Grzywinski chases river fish as new regulations are pondered

ON THE ST. CROIX RIVER, Minn. — In a move that has little precedent, Minnesota and Wisconsin fisheries managers announced recently that angling regulations on the Mississippi River between Hastings and the Iowa border will be reviewed jointly by the states’ respective departments of natural resources.The idea, the officials said, is to decide whether gamefish regulations on the river should be updated and — this would be a shocker — made uniform between the two states.Anglers who fish the Mississippi regularly will pay special attention to any changes made to protocols governing walleyes, which attract most anglers to the river. This is especially true in early spring, when pre-spawn walleyes collect in waters below the Red Wing dam, attracting an armada of anglers not only from Minnesota and Wisconsin but also from Iowa (especially) and Illinois.“We don’t have any specific proposals for changes to bag limits or size restrictions,” said Kevin Stauffer, Lake City area fisheries supervisor for the Minnesota DNR. “But many of these regulations have been in place for 50 years, and we’d like to hear what people who fish the river have to say about them, and whether they think any changes are in order.”In addition to… Read full this story

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