Fishing with a Massive Hangover

[buckeyezip]

So he didnt reel in any fish? And you kept 17 walleyes hum only supposed to keep 6 a piece!Every one is only allowed 6 to reel in just because you have 3 people dont mean you can keep more.If hes not fishing.

You really think everyone on the boat has to reel in their 6 fish, and their 6 fish only? There are PLENTY who take along a wife/gf/friend to get an extra 6 fish... And the wife/gf/friend never touches any tackle. As long as they're on the boat, they count as another limit

[cooleyfarms]

There was quite a discussion on "boat limits" on the thread started by jjan 1976 walleye report 7-13 7-14 in 2013. The gist was "boat limit" does not exist as far as DOW is concerned. Only 6 per person actually fishing can be kept. I know some fisherpeople do that to get limits for everybody but it is not legal. Check the thread. Putting a statement in hard copy like itsbob did is an open invitation to game wardens. Not arguing, just providing info.

[hageman]

Sorry Buckeyezip and everyone who believes his theory- Cooley Farms is correct. The DOW does not recognize boat limits as the legal method of counting daily bag limits. In fact, I know of a fisherman who was ticketed during the spring jig bite a few years ago for overbagging when he had the hot hand and caught the majority of the walleyes on the boat one morning.

Even though the total boat count only had the legal number of walleyes on board, the game wardens had been watching them fish long enough to see who caught and kept how many fish, then followed them into the marina and wrote the guilty party up. It doesn't happen often, because watching a group to tally individual catches is not an efficient use of their time, but sometimes they get intel by splitting up the group and asking them individually who caught how many to see if someone spills the beans.