DNR survey

[Kingfisher]

I received in the mail today a fishing survey pamphlet with about 8 pages of questions from the MN DNR. The cover letter stated that my name had been randomly picked from the issued 2003-2004 MN fishing license. Just wondering how many of you received one also.

[Kingfisher]

Am I the only one who received one??

[greenhorn]

I never recieved anything from the DNR

[LEECH21]

Nope...

[slick814]

Me neither

[hanson]

Nope.

[Poutmaster]

I didn't get one and haven't heard of anyone else getting one....

[efgh]

I never got one either, just got home from a bullhead fry our legion post has every month, asked around, no one there got one either.

[wall-i-king]

King fisher,

I didn't get one either. Almost sounds like it is about as common as winning the lottery.....maybe you should go out and buy a ticket . Yeah I have not heard of anyone getting one either. I guess you are just special (or lucky) or something.

keep fishin'

wall-i-king

[upnorth]

Not I either!

[The Grebe]

Nope...I dint needer...I dint heared ah no one else eeder?

[Duffer]

nothin here

[Northlander]

Not one here either.

[Borch]

None in my household either.

[bigminnow]

Kingfisher,

I have never heard ot this before, what are some of the questions?

[psegriz]

Never heard of it and unless it's on individual lakes I can't see where it'd do much good.

[JohnMickish]

Not me, but I did get one for hunting about 10 years ago.

[fishbouy]

i haven't seen or heard of any recently. i do believe that i got one last year or the year before from the dnr-U of M that dealt with fishing trout in minnesota. i have always gotten a trout stamp so i figured thats how i got one

[andy j]

Not me or anyone I know, What do they expect to get from the survey if nobody is getting them.

[Kingfisher]

bigminnow, and all interested, thanks for responding; There were about 50 questions like; to me fishing is: unimportant, somewhat important, neutral, important, very important. Questions about controlling aquatic growth along shorlines; strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree.

Other questions come to mind like; would you rather fish a lake with large numbers of small fish, or a lake with trophy size in it. How many fish I ate in one year. Is it important to catch a limit. What I thought about slots. How many rod and reels I owned. Estimated value of all my fishing equipment. Public access quality. DNR's performance, annual income, how many days I fish a year, etc etc.

By the way they asked how many and what fishing magazines I receive and how often I read them. I answered none, I also added another block under their question and put down internet, then I put down Fishing Minnesota , 360 days a year!!

The self addressed and postage paid envelope went to a PHD at U of M.

[Swamprat72]

I recieved a similar survey about 5 years ago. I filled it out and sent it off and heard nothing more. I thought maybe they would send back results or something?

[gundy89]

Not for fishing but got one for Waterfowl hunting last year. this year they asked for wings. I tried to help them best I could, but I didn't shot too many.