trick question regarding legal limit in MN

[ScottL]

Okay, here is the trick question.If I take my 2 sons, age 6 and 3 walleye fishing on an inland lake in MN that has a normal daily limit of 6 fish, with no slot requirement, how many walleyes can we (the 3 of us) take home with us.
I always assumed 18 (which by the way has never happened), but over the weekend I was told by somebody that we can only take 6, because they are not licensed anglers and therefore are fishing as part of my daily limit. I looked in the DNR handbook and it didn't say. It did say something about it being legal for a person age 16 or under to transport bass, perch and panfish, but nothing about walleyes.
I thought since each of us can use a line that we could hypothetically take 3 limits.
As a side note those two have been fishing the pants off of dad the 3 year old has caught 2 nice walleyes this year and a pile of sunfish.

Does anybody know for sure or does anybody have any experience with this situation, or just vote on it and the majority wins? Thank you

ScottL

[curt quesnell]

your kids, under the age of needing their own license, can each
have a limit of their own as long as they, and you are minnesota
residents.

if you, or they are not minnesota residents then they cannot
have fish of their own unless they have a license.

there has been some confusion this year but i dont see why.
this is the way it has always been. the state wants you to
take your kids fishin too.

all this should be in the rules and regs


curt quesnell

[mikie]

Actually, as I understand it, if you & the kids are non-residents, they can have their own limit IF you buy one of the non-resident family licenses. The statement above is true if you just get a non-resident individual permit. good luck but put a few back for the rest of us. m

[Chuck Pederson MN]

That depends on where you are, in SD. a family license allows the minors to fish but not take there own limits. Only one limit same as an individual. If you want them to take a limit they need an individual license no matter what the age. And Curt is right about the resident Mn. law.