Maybe I missed it but has anybody started the annual thread yet regarding the upcoming Congress meeting? Always interesting to see what's up for vote, and what some of the citizen resolutions will be.

No, AJE, I think you are right! Good job!

Moosetrot

There are some trapping related questions coming up. And a cross Bow question.
I'm sure someone can post those questions on here.

I haven't seen the crossbow question, but maybe it will be the hot topic this year.

Nothing really raised my blood pressure to a dangerous level.

Traditional bow hunters whining that all THEIR bucks are being taken by crossbow hunters. Maybe the gun season should be shortened too after all gun hunters have an advantage over crossbow hunters.

Don't like the first Saturday after Nov. 1 start for mink/muskrat in south but I dislike merry-go-rounds even more. Just hope the park closes at some point

For trappers it May be nice to see some sensible revisions to our colony trap regs.

Do ya think?
But if those of us who use colony traps take too many rats; Is that going to offend the traditional foothold/BG rat trappers?
Kinda like the xbow vs. vertical bow hunters?

LOl

Change and increase size restrictions to say 50 sq inches.
Allow a reasonable fence rule and
What’s wrong with side by side or stacking?

And let us place them In the culverts. Or Is that asking to much?

It never hurts to ask too much. That would be biggest advantage for someone with my limited abilities.

You can already place them side by side. Stacking really isn’t necessary. But I’m not against it.

You can't stack them side by side If It blocks off the water source.

There are two of us up for election this year in Milwaukee county. I'm on the fur harvest committee the other guy is a serious fishing fanatic we will need all the votes we can get.The Green Party is lining up people to run against us they put 2 on last year by car pooling college students and having a pizza party during the meeting. Please consider attending Monday April 9th at 7:00 the voting for delegates is at 7:00 Sharp before the rest of the meeting. Message me if you have questions thanks

Only if it blocks off the entire navigable water. As long as they are not staggered, is not considered fencing. That is the explanation given by Olson.

Guess you've never seen rats go over top of colonies before?

i dont get the so called spring season what the heck kinda date is mach 15th? why dont they just make it end of march south and central dont get that one bit with the rule change all we would get down here is a shorter practical season with the later start to put numbers to it we would loose 7 days for me that would be 378 rats that i wouldnt have caught guess ill just have to get better now i could live with that if we would get an actual spring season but mach 15th aint gonna cut it

The 378 rats are still there with a later start date and are growing.

At least you have open water at the beginning of season. And a latter ending date doesn’t help us any unless it is end of April. We are still froze up with 10” of snow yesterday and much more forecast in next ten days.