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I have a question that maybe nobody has ever heard or been asked about here in Minnesota would like to know anyone’s input if they happen to know. Figured I would ask on here before reaching out to the DNR.

       . So I have a bass tournament the weekend of the 18th. I know that the opener this year is  on the 11th. I plan on going to the lake on the 10th which is Friday the day before the opener because that is the only day I have available to make the drive. my plan is to mainly just check the lake out and do a lot of scanning but here is my question. Is it legal to throw a soft plastic around just to detect bites if I don’t even have any sort of a hook connected to my line at all? So what I would do is throw a tungsten worm weight with a twist lock that is holding on a soft plastic, no hook whatsoever. This is just only to detect bites and areas that are holding fish.  The twist lock shown below. Thanks a lot for your help and input.

 

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Well you could throw something small and play really, really dumb and say you were casting for crappies if you get stopped!  ;)

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No, that is not legal since bass season is not open yet.

 

As leech stated, it better be something small that would work for crappies.

 

You can do all the scanning and scouting you want with your graphs at any point.  Just don't be tossing bass-sized lures.

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