District 18 - Rochester area

Last updated: 2013-06-04

CO Tyler Quandt (Red Wing) reports spending most of the week checking fishing activity. A tip call was responded to about some illegal traps being set in a trout stream. The individual setting the traps was trying to catch crayfish. The river is still high but the fishing has been ok. Some fishing and AIS violations were detected.

CO Phil George (Rochester) spent the week checking anglers and watercraft users. Took calls of baby animals people have found. Officer George took a call of an injured deer. Enforcement action for the week was angling without a license and over limit of bass.

CO Tom Hemker (Winona) reports rain and high river water has not stopped the fish from biting. Most of the fishing is on area lakes and river backwaters with good numbers of bass being caught. The mushroom hunters are having one of the best years ever remembered. Hemker investigated an incident where a game farm owner lost deer after a tree fell on his fence The BAH was notified.

CO Mitch Boyum (Rushford) reports investigating mushroom hunting trespassers. Time was also spent checking nuisance animal calls and fawn calls. Fishing has been slow as most streams are high and muddy. The turkey season ended slowly with one hunter very disappointed as he finally was able to get a tom within twenty yards and killed a tree instead of the tom.

CO Joel Heyn (Plainview) worked anglers and rec vehicles during the week. It was a slow end to the turkey season and morel hunters continue to do well. Heyn also had radiological emergency preparedness training.

CO Scott Fritz (LaCrescent) reports the river is high and the trout streams were flooded. The bluegills were biting in the backwaters. The turkey season ended on a slow note.

Rochester #2 - vacant.