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| Effective Janurary 14 2004 The Daily Bag Limit will be 6 Walleyes or Sauger
according to the NEW IOWA LAWS.Wis has not made anything official as of yet.This could get to be a bad thing depending on what lic. you hold and where you launch.If anyone knows anything else please post.
Len
Falling Rock Bar Bait & Grill
1-608-874-4707
Edited by Falling Rock 1/3/2004 3:45 PM
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Location: blue mounds,wisc | its starting to get to where we have to go to a new rule school every year before we can get a liecence. im all for the reduced bag limit.it would also be great if there was a 15 inch limit on sauger also. |
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| Glad to see it. It's long overdo. I hope Wisconsin follows suit to take the confussion out of the regulations. The tri-state area of Iowa/Mn/WI should all adopt the same size and bag limits to avoid confussion. The 15" size limit would be a bonus. Of course, I know lots of guys on this board that put that limit on themselves voluntarily years ago.
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Location: blue mounds,wisc | i think wisc. will go along but the dnr has to wait until their spring hearings to change laws .so i think it wont go until next year.and i see the 15in. limit would take away alot of mistaken saugeye .and give all sauger and walleye a good chance to make it to adult size and get in on spawning. |
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| I also hope that Wi. follows suit as well. I wish they would have done this 5 years ago. There are a lot of good people out there that have there own length limit. But there are still a lot of people that have it in there head that in the fall they have to go out and work those SMALL fish over to fill their freezer. Hopefully someday they'll learn. Hutch |
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| Not to worry guys, I believe I read recently where Wisc. will change over in April. But hey, why wait? |
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Location: La Crescent, MN | It will be interesting to see what sort of impact these regs have. Hopefully it will positively affect the dynamics of the sauger population. I remember when Trempealeau was a phenomenal sauger pool. It has rebounded some in the past year or so, but you still see guys throwing fish you can see through into the ol' 5 gallon pail.
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| I can remember years up in Trempealeau catching saugers 20+". You know, those beautiful palamino looking fish. There was a stretch one October when there were lots of them around. I remember it well because one day when I was out there, every time that I would be in the vicinity of a certain anchored boat, I would hook into a good fish....and let it go.
On about the fifth fish, the old lady in the boat yelled to me, "YOU MAKE ME SICK!" I loved it.
It would be great to see all those poor babies that stack up in MN slough in the fall actually get a chance to grow up instead of being treated like perch.
It's gotta be a tri state effort.
Is MN getting on board with this?
I hope so.
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| AMEN Beav. Couldn't have said it any better. Hutch |
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Location: Chicago IL. | The new reg dont bother me because I only catch walleyes over 27" anyway. HEHEHE!!!! I also think it`s only going to do good for the river,,,execpt when you get into a bunch of 20-24" walleyes in a tourney, but I can live with that. Going to need a scale that goes to the thousandths. John Mannerino #473 |
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Location: blue mounds,wisc | got to talk with a warden on the river for over a half hour today.i asked him about the new bag and slot on the river in iowa and illinois.and if wisc. was going to join in and help protect the sauger and walleye.he said that wisc DNR dont feel that it is necessary.they are happy with fish numbers as of now.its to bad for the sauger now that there is still no size limit. i think that im going to attend a spring hearing and voice my opinion on this matter. the warden said that my voice herd will be a step in the right direction. |
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| Good for you Larry, I applaude your effort. |
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Location: blue mounds,wisc | herb, thanks but i shouldnt be the only person there . if we really care about our future of our resource than we should be herd in numbers.i see alot of fishermen coming up to wisc to" meat fish " now. what do you think is going to happen now that the lower states changed there laws.as posted before alot of guys keep every little sauger they catch,and how about the saugeye,my bro-in law caught a 6.8 lb saugeye a few years back and these fish can get much bigger ,there is no limit on them either,i got into many arguments with guys about the difference between sauger ,walleye, and saugeye. well its very easy to tell the difference and if there were a 15inch limit than all species would have a chance to spawn at least once before there thrown into a bucket! |
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| Larry, not sure if Wisc. dnr or legislators would listen to iowans, but give me some address' and I'll fire off a few rounds. As far as the saugeyes go, Ia. DNR regulates them the same as a walleye, size wise and possesion limit wise. |
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Location: blue mounds,wisc | if iowa regulates the saugeye then why are guys keeping the saugeye under 15 inchs. that is what i was saying about the arguments . not knowing how to identify these fish. all i hear its a sauger!! WRONG. i wish there was more checking of livewells. this was another thing that i brought up to the warden yesterday,i`ve fished the river all my life and never ever been checked by a warden for my liecense. he couldnt believe when i was telling him of some of the things that i told him about overharvesting and fish being kept that were under the limit. i had to quit doing his job after i had my tail lights kicked out and truck keyed by those i questioned about rule violations. |
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| I know what you mean about the identification thing. A buddy and I were fishing a hole that had a warden and his (runaround) friend in a another boat one day. Was picking up a few saugeye in the mix and we were pitching them back cause they were too short, but they were keeping all of their's. An argument started about how they knew their fish and we didn't. Well, now what do you do? Can't call the warden cause he's in on the violation. That's when I decided to keep the TIP # in my cell and just give info like, violation, place, and boat numbers if I can get them written down. I don't like to be a 'rat', but the dnr can't be everywhere. And now with the new iowa regulations taking effect on december 1st every year (the closed season at 3 dams), which happens to coincide with our deer seasons, the wardens will be even more thinly spread.
BTW, I haven't seen that warden and his buddy on the water since that incident many years ago. |
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| It really SUCKS that Wisconsin and MN and Iowa don't have a tri-state DNR or fisheries board to make sure that they all stay on the same page. I'm Polish and even I understand that there isn't an underwater fence that seperates the Iowa fish from the Wisconsin side or the Wisconsin fish from the Minn side. They have to get their acts together and all act to protect the fishery. I think a letter writing and phone calling barrage should start. Anybody know who to yell at on the WI side and the MN side? Let's make some noise!
They work for US, or at least they are supposed to.
Spring hearings, DNR boards, whoever. Let them know that everybody should follow Iowas lead.
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| http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water/fhp/fish/regulations/2004/hook...
The new fishing regulations indicate a limit of six walleye/sauger on the WI/IA boundary waters |
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| Thanks for posting that. They better post it at the boat landings. I bet there are going to be lots of citations issued and lots of people pleading ignorance.
Now, if we can get the minimum length limit, things will really be looking good for the future.
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| The new reg will take affect on April 1, I think as that is usually when WI changes take affect, hopefully it will be up at all Miss boat landings. Apparently WI is changing reg for pool 12? with a slot- I think it said no harvest 20-27inch
I also think that even if you have a WI license and are fishing on the IA side of the channel you have to follow IA law but cannot remember where I read that
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