1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to game and fish; providing for a continuous open season for taking
1.3 largemouth and smallmouth bass; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section
1.4 97C.395.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 97C.395, is amended to read:
1.7 97C.395 OPEN SEASONS FOR ANGLING.
1.8 Subdivision 1.Dates for certain species.(a) The open seasons to take fish by angling
1.9are as follows:
1.10 (1) for walleye, sauger, northern pike, and muskellunge, largemouth bass, and smallmouth
1.11bass, the Saturday two weeks prior to the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend through the
1.12last Sunday in February;
1.13 (2) for brown trout, brook trout, lake trout, rainbow trout, and splake, between January
1.141 through October 31 as prescribed by the commissioner by rule except as provided in
1.15section 97C.415, subdivision 2; and
1.16 (3) for salmon, as prescribed by the commissioner by rule.
1.17 (b) The commissioner shall close the season in areas of the state where fish are spawning
1.18and closing the season will protect the resource.
1.19 Subd. 2.Continuous season for certain species.For largemouth bass, smallmouth bass,
1.20sunfish, white crappie, black crappie, yellow perch, channel catfish, rock bass, white bass,
1.21yellow bass, burbot, cisco (tullibee), lake whitefish, common carp, and native rough fish,
1.22the open season is continuous.
1Section 1.
REVISOR CKM/KR 25-0492803/17/25
State of Minnesota
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
H. F. No. 2824
NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
Authored by Nash, Fischer, Lillie and Skraba03/26/2025
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy