I received the following from Joe Kurz, Chippewa County fisheries biologist, today. I added the blue emphasis:
“The permit for the FLW tournament has been approved. Anglers in the tournament will have to follow the size and bag limits that are in place for Lake Wissota at the time of the tournament. The protected-slot size will still be in effect, but it is unknown what the bag limit will be since that is based on the annual quota request for tribal harvest and the actual tribal harvest.”
Since all waters that have the 14-18″ slot in effect allow only 1 fish over 18″, the only question (in my mind) that remains is how many fish under 14″ will be allowed per boat.