20/40 perch limit

[backlash 1]

I understand the daily limit being 20, and the posession is 40, so how does that work? I could be out for 2 days and have 40 fillets in my cooler??? I couldn't find details in the regs. Thanks

[Ryan Berger]

that would be 80 fillets if ya clean them the way I do

[Lost]

Yep, you can only keep 20 perch a day that you catch. Any more and you have to throw them back. Then you'll have to go out the next day and catch another 20. That'll be it for what you can keep until you eat some of them. Then you can go catch more the next day.

[riverrat56]

Just a note, once you catch your 20 your done fishing for perch, you can fish for something else but once you have your limit you have to stop fishing for that species, if you want to keep fishing just stop at 19 and then keep one before you leave.

[The_Duckslayer]

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I could be out for 2 days and have 40 fillets in my cooler??? Thanks

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If by your statement you mean that you are on the road some where fishing and you want to keep 20 one day and 20 the next you need to insure that you leave a patch of skin on them so that if you are stopped or checked the CO can tell what kind of fish it is! Once you get home you can finish the fillet. Take care and N Joy the Hunt././Jimbo

[WAG416]

Does that reg apply to perch also? I guess I figured it was for walleyes and saugers, just wondering?

[The_Duckslayer]

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Does that reg apply to perch also? I guess I figured it was for walleyes and saugers, just wondering?

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From page 17 of the 2005 regulations the second paragraph pretty much sums it up.

• Northern pike and walleye may be transported dressed or as fillets, but must retain a 1-square-inch patch of skin. Exception: Northern pike and walleye must be undressed while on experimental or special regulation waters. Other fish species with statewide length limits (muskellunge, splake, brook trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, and salmon) must be transported undressed so that they can be measured.

• All dressed fish and fillets must have a 1-square-inch patch of skin with scales intact from a portion of the body other than the belly. Sauger prepared in this manner are counted as walleye. Bullhead, sunfish, and crappie, may be completely filleted and skinned.

Take care and N Joy the Hunt././Jimbo