Group Caught With 676 Fish Over The Limit
One might have a little pity for some out-of-town anglers who slipped up and kept a fish or two over the limit, but a case made recently against six fishermen in Minnesota is almost too ridiculous to believe.
The Associated Press reports that six people from Bedford Indiana, five men and a woman, were busted by Minnesota officers with 676 fish over the legal limit. The group had been staying in a cabin on Upper Cormorant Lake in western Minnesota’s Becker County. Following up on an anonymous tip, officers searched the group’s cabin and found all the fish in the freezer.
The fish were a mix of crappies and various species of sunfish, for which there is a relatively liberal possession limit in Minnesota. Anglers are allowed to possess 10 crappies and 20 sunfish. Doing the math, the maximum number of fish the group would have been allowed as a total of both species would be 180 fish. That means they could have had up to 856 fish in the freezer.
If convicted of the misdemeanor, the group could be ordered to pay a fine, plus $5 restitution for each fish over the limit and lose their fishing privileges for three years.
Even if they had been allowed to keep the fish, which they weren’t, that would be one expensive fish fry. But the question remains, what were they using to catch all those fish?
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