Are Yo Yo's legal to use in MN

[B-man715]

Hard to beat some Yo Yo's baited with Speed Hooks

It's the ultimate beer drinking and fish catching combo!

You can go over to your buddy's shack for a few hours and come back to a couple walleyes writhing in the hole.

in Wisconsin any way............

Minnesota is just a big fun wrecker.....

[merkman]

I had this argument, with a guy in bemidji several years ago, and he tried to give me a valid use. He said that he likes to use it in his spear house, so he can be fishing with his pole, and then have this yo-yo type reel down, like a ratle reel, attached to the wall. if a northern comes in, he can slap the yo-yo and get it up, so he can then spear the northern. Sounds like a good reason, and legit..except you can only fish 1 line, will spearing! Again, it was used to fish more than one line...all be it, not to slite the DNR..but it was the same thing in the end..no good reason.

Sorry to bust your bubble sirlips.... but, you can have as many lines down as you want when darkhouse spearing, as long as the decoy (live or fake) that the extra lines are connected to does not have any hooks in it. when darkhouse spearing in Minnesota the law is one spear plus one hook.

I and many many other darkhouse spearing sportsmen routinely run 2 decoy lines with a darkhouse spear.

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[Chad Holst]

No bubble busted... I was clearly talking about baited, hooked, fishing lines. Not decoy lines. I believe they can now fish in spear house, but only 1 line.

[Chad Holst]

Fowl mouth... Yep I have known some pretty good and some pretty bad folks in my day...fished near most of both of them. As I get older and wiser I am glad to have the friends I have and the good people around me that I call my friends. As a young buck I even did some dumb things myself let alone being friends with idiots. Don't know what else to tell yah.

As far as turning in poachers... Back 20+ years ago? Not a chance. I didn't think it was my place to say anything about someone fishing an extra line. Now? I still wouldn't probably call it in, as I have the mouth to say something to them myself...and would! I also wouldn't call the cops if I saw someone was going to drink and drive...I would Stop them myself. Only if I couldn't would I go to the law for help. Maybe when your "buddy" has had a few too many and says " I'm fine to drive" that you let him drive and then call the cops on him... I think I would just take it upon myself to stop him. But then again it's been along time since "those days" and those friends.

[castmaster]

Hard to beat some Yo Yo's baited with Speed Hooks

It's the ultimate beer drinking and fish catching combo!

You can go over to your buddy's shack for a few hours and come back to a couple walleyes swimming around on bottom.

in Wisconsin any way............

Minnesota is just a big fun wrecker.....

There fixed it for you. The only way they would have been writhing in the hole is if the reel retracts the line. And as we've been told in this thread, regardless of personal experiences otherwise, that yoyo reels dont take up the line, dont set the hook etc.

So I guess those eyes would still be swimming around on bottom where they were hooked. And I guess the folks Ive seen use them down south for cats, run their baits on the surface. Its an odd mutation of southern cats, they dont feed on bottom like they do up north here, they are surface feeders. Catch em alot on poppers and buzz baits, lol.

[castmaster]

NM