DNR Test Nets?

[MN Greenheads]

What do DNR Test nets look like? I see yellow and orange bouys in the water about 50-100yds apart in the water and was wondering if they are dnr test nets.

[Scott M]

Where, what lake? All DNR test nets that I've ever seen are marked as such with a sign on shore for trapnets or with flags or buoys that are marked for gillnets. It's still too early for gillnets. Most regularly scheduled test netting begins in about a month and other special spring netting is done with trapnets in shallow water.

[bd477]

It could possibly be minnow traps that someone has out also.

[ironman]

Yep they are clearly marked as DNR on them...however I "found" one that wasn't floating at all. I found it retrieving some decoys and tripped over it and with just enough cold water to send the boys packing and ruin my cell phone. I was ticked.

[tom fellegy]

sounds like dnre nets to me. they have had nets out here on mille lacs for the last 2 weeks. they are trap netting and tagging walleyes here in cove bay, i was watching them last thursday for a while. 2 real nice guys, they explained a few things to me about what they were doing...........tom fellgy

[Black_Bay]

If the bouys you saw were about 60 feet off shore then they were trap nets. As da_chise31 said the DNR isn't gill netting right now. The trap nets are staked, anchored or tied to shore then stretched out into the lake where they are anchored and marked with a bouy.

BTW da_chise31, I may have you mistaken for someone else, but did you just get a new job?

[Scott M]

Black Bay, maybe you should email me