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Posted

On Mille Lacs, eating fish you caught on the lake is illegal, but I've heard people talking about eating em on Upper Red, is it legal up there? If it is, awsome!

Posted

Good to go!

Just keep your crappies that were filleted so the CO can count them if you are checked. Remember, fish eaten on the ice count towards your "daily" limit.

Mille Lacs is a "no-no" because of the slot limits.

Posted

So next year when there is a slot limit on Red, you won't be able to clean/eat a walleye on Red? Even if you have a fish carcass of a 15 inch walleye?

Posted

Just so i'm clear - When my son and I catch our 20 crappies on Saturday morning grin.gif and eat them for lunch on Saturday, we can't keep any more crappies until Sunday??? AND we should keep the 20 carcasses? Are we able to catch & release on Saturday after we've eaten?

Posted

That is correct. And no you can't catch and release after you have a limit. You would be over your limit when you pull that 21st one.

Posted

If you caught and ate your limit on a Saturday, kept the carcasses, then caught your limit on Sunday....how would you be able to prove to the CO that the carcasses came from Saturday's fishing and not Sunday's? Will they be able to notice that themselves?

Posted

Thanks!! I guess we'll plan on taking naps after our big lunch!!! or break out the tip ups and big suckers!!!!

Posted

That's a good plan wade!!!!

Posted

Well Wade I can answer this ? very easily......You and your son will not be able to eat 20 Red Lake crappies at one sitting...... wink.gif If you can my hats off to you my friend for your stomach is alot bigger than mine. grin.gif I think I fed 6 people with 10 crappies and we had left overs...

Posted

the way the bite has been better take energy bars so you can be the one to find the slabs!naps are for the two days after you get home.

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Just so i'm clear - When my son and I catch our 20 crappies on Saturday morning
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and eat them for lunch on Saturday, we can't keep any more crappies until Sunday??? AND we should keep the 20 carcasses? Are we able to catch & release on Saturday after we've eaten?


Wait a minute, guys. It's a possession limit, not a daily bag limit. You can't catch and keep 10 each on Saturday and then wait until Sunday and catch and keep 10 more each, regardless of whether you eat them or not (and there's NO WAY two people could eat 20 URL slabs in one day. NO WAY, NO WAY, NO WAY!), which is how I'm reading your post. Forgive me right now if I understand it incorrectly. Likewise, if you have 10 in your freezer at home, you can't go out and catch 10 more. The 10 in your freezer are your possession limit. Granted, if you have a household of 3 (licensed anglers and kids) then you can have 30 crappies in your freezer (but you don't need that many!). Also, if you're going to practice C & R you better only have 9 in your bucket, all weekend. All of the above thinking will get you in big trouble with the CO's, when they check you (and they will--we've been checked many times on URL, summer and winter, over six years of fishing). . Also, you don't need 10 of those URL slabs. That's a LOT of meat! If everyone practices that then maybe those crappies will last a little bit longer for all of us. Keep only what you need and leave some for the next guy--or his kids. Take a kid fishing!

Posted

I am pretty sure the fella meant he was going to catch more on Sunday for the ones he ate on Saturday so cut him some slack.

Posted

I have not got checked by the DNR/Game Warden in 4 years of fishing on URL as this will be my 5th year fishing up there. Maybe this year?

Posted

As I said, forgive me right away if I read that wrong. They key words in his post were "until Sunday". Made/makes it sound like if he would limit on Saturday he would then wait "until Sunday" to go for another. Again, mea culpa if I read it wrong (there are some who read these posts that could use an education anyway wink.gif

Posted

I think what you missed mama m was that he ate the saturdays catch on saturday which would mean his limit is reset on Sunday....but I still thought that you had to go to shore to eat any fish but I could definatly be wrong on that...

Posted

This is what I think you could do if you were to be on the fish well enough to have such an ordeal...

Catch and eat 8 crappies on saturday and keep the carcasses. That way you can legally keep fishing and be safe if you happen to get a double (you can fish two lines). Keep the C&R going until 11:59pm saturday night and then dispose of the carcasses on shore in waste receptacle. Head back on the ice and you can stop fishing once you have ten craps out of the water.

How does that sound?

Posted

Yes you can eat crappies on the ice on Red Lake. We wer'nt lucky enough to do that last weekend but here's what we did last year.

2 of us got up to the lake friday afternoon. By 7;30 we had 12 crappies on the ice (actually all but one caught in the rental sleeper). We proceeded to cook up 6 of them and eat them for dinner (bagged carcass's were taken by sleeper owner to shore and disposed of). We caught 3 more before turning in that night. That means that we had 15 for us 2 on saturday towards our daily limit (daily and possession are the same thing). At 12:01am our possession/daily limit dropped to 9 since we ate the 6. We proceeded to keep another 9 by 10:30am and then released fish the rest of the day, (tho keeping 16 nice perch). We ate veni chili saturday night so our possession/daily limit was 18.

We caught 2 more slabs sunday Am and headed home around 10am in a snowstorm. Neither of us had any craps in the freezer prior to the trip.

Next year i will bet that you will not be able to eat any eye's/pike on the ice due to the slot, similar to Mille lacs, LOTW and Voyageurs, but should still be able to eat crappies and perch.

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