Cant eat fish in sleeper on any lake that has a slot?!!

[Kylersk]

I called the DNR and asked if it was legal to eat fish inside a fish house. I was told, if the lake has a slot you cannot cook and eat any species of fish in the house.

This kinda bites. I mean, part of fishing is enjoying your catch and the fresher the better. If you can have a shore lunch during the summer, why cant you eat em in your fish house during the winter?

[Ralph Wiggum]

So, you can't eat crappies on URL?

[TSCTSC]

WHAT???!!!! You mean I cannot eat my Walleye on Mille Lacs???!!!

[fiskyknut]

Ralph you can eat the Crappies as they have no slot. Pike and/or Walleye would be a no no. If you lucked into a Sheephead you could eat that too!!!

fiskyknut

[Kylersk]

when I asked, they claimed you couldnt any fish, even those without slot *shrugs*

[cold one sd]

Here in SD you can't have the previous days fish on the ice and I can't say for sure if you can clean them on the ice. I know you can't in a boat. I don't think you can cook them on the ice here either. I guess you just take em to shore and feed em to the coons every night. Where do they dream up this dump. I sure doesn't bother them to take the fees from ya does it?

[Sonicrunch]

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when I asked, they claimed you couldnt any fish, even those without slot *shrugs*

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I guess they don't want to allow any chance of the angler trying to argue that the meal on the ice was of a different species.

As I have stated before, if people weren't such jackarses, we wouldnt have these stupid rules.

[HarryG]

I was always under the impression that you could not possess fillets on the water. That was the purpose of the Shore Lunch. However, I read the 2006 rule book and it specifically states that "While on or fishing waters with size restrictions, all fish for which the size restriction applies must have their heads, tails, fins, and skin intact and be measurable except when a watercraft is docked or new moored to shore and the person is preparing the fish for that nights/days meal." It does not mention anything about waters with out size restrictions. So it appears that you can eat fish on the ice. This was in the "POSESSION" section of the Regs book. There may be more to it, so when in doubt about this subject, it is best to take it home. ( or eat fast).

[icemac33]

I e-mailed the DNR for this same question in the URL forum and this is the response I recieved from Jim Abernathy, DNR Information Consultant.

Hello,

On lakes which have a slot limit. Then those type of fish which there

is a slot limit can not be eaten on the lake. They must be left in the

whole(so they can be measured if checked by a conservation officer).

Other fish that don't have a slot limit maybe cleaned and eaten. They

are still part of the daily limit until midnight.

good luck

jim

James Abernathy

DNR Information

[fiskyknut]

There you have it Kyle. I would'nt of talk'd you man!

Enjoy the winter season.....fiskyknut

[TSCTSC]

Well. They did say that those fish which are slot should be measurable. So if we fillet it but keep the head, spine, and tail intact, we could theoretically but kept accountable to those slots, right?

[Sonicrunch]

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Well. They did say that those fish which are slot should be measurable. So if we fillet it but keep the head, spine, and tail intact, we could theoretically but kept accountable to those slots, right?

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What I read above said "whole".