TIP call put four on the hook
by Mike Kallok
Messenger Staff Writer
Onamia station Conservation Officer Dan Perron along with his side kick River displaying an over limit that was seized from four Mille Lacs anglers on Oct 16.
For one group of anglers visiting Mille Lacs last week, this falls excellent perch bite proved to be more temptation than they could resist.
On Sunday, Oct. 16, Onamia Station Conservation Officer Dan Perron, who was watching his two children, waited anxiously for his wife to return home after he received a TIP call from a concerned resident about a possible gross over limit violation witnessed at a resort on Wahkon Bay.
The caller said he had watched the group coming into the resort all week with a lot of fish, Perron said. He knew they couldnt eat all of them.
When Perron arrived around 4:30 p.m., three of the anglers were in the process of cleaning 72 perch, which they had caught that day.
They were already over the daily limit, and they told me they had fish in the freezer, Perron said, adding that none of them could tell him exactly how many fish they had in the freezer.
When they were all piled up, the total came to 378 perch, 218 over the legal possession limit.
John and Lucille Hansen of Whitehall, Wis., and Wallace and Marian Mortenson of Maple Grove were charged with possessing fish over their limit, and each angler was individually fined $872 for the violations.
They lost their legal fish too, Perron said.
They were cooperative, according to Perron who said that the group admitted they were wrong.
From what the couples told the Perron, their rational for keeping the over limits seemed to stem from a poor perch bite during the summer months.
Perron, who has been the Onamia Station CO for just over a year said last weeks over limit seizure was his largest to date.
It was my first big TIP call, Perron said adding that calls are good no matter how big or small the violation might be.
Unfortunately because the fish had already been cleaned, they will likely go to waste, Peron said.
According to the DNR, the Minnesota Department of Health prohibits the distribution of seized fish and game that has been cleaned or dressed because of the liability that it presents for the state.
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by Mike Kallok
Messenger Staff Writer
Onamia station Conservation Officer Dan Perron along with his side kick River displaying an over limit that was seized from four Mille Lacs anglers on Oct 16.
For one group of anglers visiting Mille Lacs last week, this falls excellent perch bite proved to be more temptation than they could resist.
On Sunday, Oct. 16, Onamia Station Conservation Officer Dan Perron, who was watching his two children, waited anxiously for his wife to return home after he received a TIP call from a concerned resident about a possible gross over limit violation witnessed at a resort on Wahkon Bay.
The caller said he had watched the group coming into the resort all week with a lot of fish, Perron said. He knew they couldnt eat all of them.
When Perron arrived around 4:30 p.m., three of the anglers were in the process of cleaning 72 perch, which they had caught that day.
They were already over the daily limit, and they told me they had fish in the freezer, Perron said, adding that none of them could tell him exactly how many fish they had in the freezer.
When they were all piled up, the total came to 378 perch, 218 over the legal possession limit.
John and Lucille Hansen of Whitehall, Wis., and Wallace and Marian Mortenson of Maple Grove were charged with possessing fish over their limit, and each angler was individually fined $872 for the violations.
They lost their legal fish too, Perron said.
They were cooperative, according to Perron who said that the group admitted they were wrong.
From what the couples told the Perron, their rational for keeping the over limits seemed to stem from a poor perch bite during the summer months.
Perron, who has been the Onamia Station CO for just over a year said last weeks over limit seizure was his largest to date.
It was my first big TIP call, Perron said adding that calls are good no matter how big or small the violation might be.
Unfortunately because the fish had already been cleaned, they will likely go to waste, Peron said.
According to the DNR, the Minnesota Department of Health prohibits the distribution of seized fish and game that has been cleaned or dressed because of the liability that it presents for the state.
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