Minnesota Waterfowl Hunting

Hello All, esp eastern Minnesota hunters.

I am a new guy here but I wanted to tell you about possible changes in Wisconsin that could benefit hunters on the Mississippi River. We all know that we share one of the premier waterfowl areas in North America.

Currently Wisconsin will have a question on their Wisconsin Conservation Congress spring hearing ballots that will ask the state to work on establishing a tundra swan season in Wisconsin.

More than likely if this were to go through, it would be in zones, and I would most definitely assume that the river would be a major one. in 2011, more than 70,000 swans were counted on the river.

If this did go through, this would be non resident opportunists to hunt swans here in Wisconsin. You can already go west to the Dakotas to hunt, why not have an option to head east as well?

Nothing is set in stone as far as cost or number of permits. We need to get this question passed though.

Monday April 14th a 7:00pm Wisconsin will hold a hearing in all 72 counties. We sure could use more votes in favor of this hunt. I am expecting a large turn out of anti hunters, esp in our more populated counties. That is what makes our less populated boarder counties critical in winning this vote. All you need to do is arrive at the meeting with a photo ID and vote yes for the swan question. It may benefit you to stay the whole meeting but it is not required.

If you have any questions, feel free to send me a message and I can help the best I can.

Thanks everyone.

Thanks for sharing the info. That could be fun having that kind of hunting opportunity so close.

I am all for this

The Feds ain't even gonna raise an eyebrow, but I guess ya gotta start somewhere.

Good luck!

Maybe in 10 years? Maybe?

Quack wrote:The Feds ain't even gonna raise an eyebrow, but I guess ya gotta start somewhere.

Good luck!

Maybe in 10 years? Maybe?

What makes you so sure?

Actually it's pretty much just a matter of getting tundras delisted as protected in Wisconsin. That is what this vote will help do. Once that happens, it's just hashing out the details of the season. Stuff like cost, zones and quota.

Wisconsin is already "offered" tags each year though we do not have a season set up.

Please try to get to the meetings and get a yes vote in. Bring some friends. The more the merrier.

Waterfowlist wrote:

Quack wrote:The Feds ain't even gonna raise an eyebrow, but I guess ya gotta start somewhere.

Good luck!

Maybe in 10 years? Maybe?

What makes you so sure?

1.) Posting anonymously on the internet
2.) I specifically asked Cordts about swan hunting this fall, and granted he's MN not WI, but the path to swan hunting was long and convoluted. Hard to imagine it would be so easy to do in WI. I don't know much about swan ecology in WI, but if they have trumps mixing with tundras, that might be a bit of a hurdle and an easy stopper for the anti's. Lot of assumptions on my part, no denying that.

The tundras and trumps do not intermingle very much. Utah has a similar situation with a swan season already in place. If we could get swans delisted here, it would take 2-3 years for everything to fall in place. It wouldn't happen over night but wouldn't take a decade either. Regardless, got to start somewhere.

I can't tell the difference...

bow-fishhunter wrote:I can't tell the difference...

Lots of people can't. Don't feel bad.