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WI and MN laws regarding distance between shacks?

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My cousin called me today while fishing and told me that he had to squeeze himself between another anglers truck and the front door of his permanent house. I've read a few posts about the MN laws, but wondering if anyone knows the exact distance someone can set up from you. Both MN and WI distances would be helpful.

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My cousin was irate, but a bit to reserved to speak up. I contacted the WI DNR and they informed me that they do not have a law in place for minimum distance. They suggested I contact the County Law Enforcement to see if there is a municipal law.

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Some people are just not confrontational.....you never know who or what that person is capable of even if you are in the right......sad society that we even have to think that way but if they are dumb enough to park and fish that close to your house who knows what other stupid stuff they are capable of!!

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Some people are just not confrontational.....you never know who or what that person is capable of even if you are in the right......sad society that we even have to think that way but if they are dumb enough to park and fish that close to your house who knows what other stupid stuff they are capable of!!

I agree. It is just not worth it to confront.

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its not worth any effort. the frozen lake is most likely public property. you can't own it.

It stinks that someone would set up that close, but think of the other fishermen too. someone looks at some gps points over a hot point and drops a perm on it, effectively shutting off areas of public water for the winter for everyone else. controversy just comes with the territory of fishing.

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He had called to find out if he had a leg to stand on, it's kind of his personality. I figured the reason he was talking so loud on the phone was sort of an indirect way of speaking his mind to the other fisherman.

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This is a very contradicting issue.

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1. In the lake anyone can be almost anywhere that is legal to be.

2. Like people have stated, some people just take over an area and makes it hard for others to fish the spot.

3. When fishing in open water a person can walk up and stand right next to you and fish. You can't really do anything about, not unless you want to get into trouble. I think this is the same for ice fishing.

Bottom line is we are all fisherman, rather than get into a pointless argument you rather just out fish the other guy.

It's not worth it getting into a fight or anything, you'll just feel stupid later.

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10 feet in MN.

I do not understand how anyone would want to be anywhere near that close to someone else.

That is the distance between shacks and I do not belive there is a law reguarding how close a person can be'

This what the laws reads• No person may erect a shelter within 10 feet of an existing shelter.

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That is the distance between shacks and I do not belive there is a law reguarding how close a person can be'

This what the laws reads• No person may erect a shelter within 10 feet of an existing shelter.

Good point elwood.

I think its ridiculous we need a law on the books for this. Have some common courtesy like most of us were taught when we were children and this kind of law not be necessary.

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What about me and my friends in our portable shelters? We make a lil line or a circle or whatever we choose depending on the fishing. Can we supposedly get in trouble for that? If a warden ticketed me for that I would definitely fight that.

Maybe they only ticket if there have been complaints.

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If that would have been me, I would have gotten the auger out and started drilling new holes: one directly behind each of his tires, one directly in front of each tire, and may a couple beside each tire. If he gave me any slack, i would just tell him that is where i was planning on drilling more holes before he parked it there, and his truck just happened to be in the way. He probably would have gotten the hint!

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If that were me he would have gotten the grumpy old men treatment, a crappie in the cab of the truck!!

Hide it in the glovebox or under a floor mat!!! smile

Sad we have another one of these threads.......

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I still like the spear hole idea better because it is technically legal whereas going into his truck could probably get you into trouble, and as long as its legal why would anyone have a problem with it right.

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