regs from dnr for Upper Red

Special regulations for Upper Red and Lake of the Woods and statewide possession limits.

The statewide possession limit for walleye and sauger (either or combined) is six fish.

Regulations for Upper Red and LOW are special regulations, and both include exceptions to the statewide possession limits.

Winter regulations on LOW (Dec 1-April 14) allow a combined possession limit of 8 where not more than 4 may be walleye. There is also a protected slot where walleye 19.5-28.0 inches must be immediately released.

Regulations on Upper Red allow only three Red Lake walleye daily, and in possession. You may not take three walleye per day over consecutive days to accumulate a possession limit of six Red Lake walleye. There is also a protected slot where walleye 17.0-26.0 inches must be immediately released.

There have been questions concerning how combined trips to LOW and Red may be affected by statewide limits, and exceptions to those limits. The following will attempt to provide some clarification.

Possession on the water
At no time can a person possess on the ice or water more than their legal limit for that body of water. Any combination of walleye or sauger exceeding three fish from LOW would exceed the daily, and possession limit, on Upper Red. Protected size ranges differ so a legal size on one lake may not be on the other. When combining trips from other lakes leave all walleye and sauger (and any other special regulation species) on shore with resort operators clearly marked with the number of fish and where they came from.

Possible possession limit combinations for LOW
The LOW exception allows anglers to exceed the statewide possession limit with some combination of 8 LOW walleye and sauger, as long as only four are walleye.
Examples of a LOW possession limit:
4 walleye and 4 sauger
3 walleye and 5 sauger
2 walleye and 6 sauger
1 walleye and 7 sauger
or 8 sauger

A statewide possession limit of six allows any combination of walleye and sauger, so all six fish in a statewide limit could be walleye. So in a combined trip to Red and LOW, once you are off the waters, you could possess six walleye as long as only 3 walleye are from Upper Red and only 3 walleye are from LOW. Additional sauger (2 in this case) would be allowed to reach the 8 fish combined LOW exception.

A combined possession limit of walleye/sauger from LOW and Upper Red Lake cannot exceed 8 fish total, no more than 6 of these can be walleye, and no more than 3 of these walleye can be from Upper Red Lake.

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there have been alot of questions about eyes from both lakes, this should help clear things up alot

Thanks Russ we had that discussion at work the other day.
some of the guys still thought that you could have 7 walleyes
and one guy even said that you could eat as many as you want on the lake, and that the one’s you take to shore are the only ones that count, what a dumb

If your not sure of the regs ASK THE RESORT WORKERS they know ! or call the DNR they are more than willing to answer any questions that you have 1-888-646-6367

if things havent changed lately, you can eat your daily limit on the ice BUT — you must–keep the carcuses for a whole day as your limit and CANNOT FISH the rest of the day—at Midnight YOU CAN TAKE THE CARCUSES TO SHORE AND FISH FOR YOUR DAILY Possion again–

if someone finds a Dnr Report about this or changes to it please post it

Possession and on-the-water consumption

• All harvested walleye and northern pike must be intact and
measurable, unless a person is in the act of preparing the
fish for a meal on the ice.
• Once a daily limit of any fish species is achieved,
consumption does not allow additional fish to be taken that
day.
• It is recommended that anglers retain measurable
carcasses of any fish consumed to confirm compliance with
size restrictions.
• It is illegal to dispose of fish carcasses on or under the ice
or in any public waters.

this was from 07 to 08 regs

another VERY, VERY IMPORTANT – piece of info is–never, never throw a slot sized fish onto the ice out side your house to freeze or in a bucket to freeze curled up!!!!

the rule says they must be measureable and that means plyable so they can lay them flat and pinch the tails easyly– keep them on ice in your house, cold but never froze;; cost per fish that is un-measureable is $50 each