Beware tournament anglers fishing in Wyoming

[Muleskinner]

If you want to keep some fish prior to the tourney keep 3 fish a piece. You never will have more than your two man possesion limit during the tourney as you can only have 5 fish in the box which you have to take to the measure boat when the 5th fish is Kept. As the rules state unless there is a prior approval for releasing the fish which I assume the tounaments get. Just make sure you and your partner only catch 2 or 3 fish each when you fill your well HA!HA!HA!

[walleyehunterCO]

Originally Posted by Muleskinner

If you want to keep some fish prior to the tourney keep 3 fish a piece. You never will have more than your two man possesion limit during the tourney as you can only have 5 fish in the box which you have to take to the measure boat when the 5th fish is Kept. As the rules state unless there is a prior approval for releasing the fish which I assume the tounaments get. Just make sure you and your partner only catch 2 or 3 fish each when you fill your well HA!HA!HA!

Weigh slip is 12 fish. If you fill the slip, you are in violation even if you only kept 1 fish. Creel limit is 6 fish per angler per day.

[copperdog]

They don't want you there period. Take the hint no fish cleaning stations no electrity for camping. They don't care if come spend your money there or not. Its really to bad because they sure have allot of walleye.

[I Walleye]

That's the way it is in Minnesota. If you have a limit of Walleyes in your cooler/freezer you cannot legally fish for Walleyes. Not many people know about the law, but if you think about it for a minute it makes perfect sense.

Once you release them they r not n your possession r they

[Chad]

Originally Posted by Ieye

Once you release them they r not n your possession r they

You do not have to have them in your possession to be counted as part of your daily creel limit. In WY, if you do anything besides immediately release the fish they count as part of your daily limit. So, if you measure and record it, it is the same as if you put it in the box. If you have a daily limit on ice when you do that then you just broke the law. If you catch, record and release a daily limit and you have only one on ice at home, you also just broke the law.

I would guess most CO's would not be that aggressive, but it appears at least one is.

[jopes]

Originally Posted by walleyehunterCO

I actually thought the possesion limit was, In you possesion at the time of the infraction. Not 3 hours later? I also thought this rule was to keep people from spending a week on vacation and taking 30 fish home with them. All tournament fish were released.

possession limit is just that. 3 hours, 3 days 3 years. All the same. Wyoming regs state 6 walleye in possession, not 1 more than that.

Originally Posted by oldyellowdog

Let's dig alil deeper, not to steal the thread. say you catch a limit and give it away to a neighbor? if they have a state fishing lisc. there poss. is full. if not, are those fish still concidered part of your poss? or can you store fish in everyones freezers? Dan

Per Wyoming regs it is illegal to catch game fish for someone else, So I would guess this would fall under the catch and give away.

Originally Posted by Robbie

All tournaments conducted by the WWC and the Stampede are progressive live release.

Rob, As for the catch and release, What is the mortality rate of a caught fish that is passed before weighing? I am thinking Wyo F&G is looking at things this way. What would happen if the entrants fish if he had lost his live well pump and his fish were all to die?

Originally Posted by Chad

I would guess most CO's would not be that aggressive, but it appears at least one is.

Glendo is a real hot spot. I know last year they busted a guy from who had been fishing every day taking limits home. If memory is right they found something like 70 walleye in his home when they searched.


Wyoming is a great place with great waters to fish. The laws are printed very clear in the regulations book. Best thing one can do as a angler is to read it and carry one every time they decide to fish a new body of water.

[Papascott]

Originally Posted by Chad

You do not have to have them in your possession to be counted as part of your daily creel limit. In WY, if you do anything besides immediately release the fish they count as part of your daily limit. So, if you measure and record it, it is the same as if you put it in the box. If you have a daily limit on ice when you do that then you just broke the law. If you catch, record and release a daily limit and you have only one on ice at home, you also just broke the law.

I would guess most CO's would not be that aggressive, but it appears at least one is.

So in Wyoming, its ilegal to take pictures of more than one days limit regardless of wether that fish is released or not?

[orchard frank]

Seems to me that tourney anglers should set an example for lawful fishing. Know the rules. In this case, it appears pretty simple, don't put any fish in the freezer. If you want to keep a few, eat them that night. It would not be good public realtions for the general fishing population to read or hear about tourney anglers in violation of fishing rules.

[Uncle Paul]

So as I read it WY says your tournament fish that you take to the scales and are released are part of your possession limit does that mean forever?? A fish in my freezer is no longer in my possession after I eat it so how do you get it out of your possession if it’s swimming in some lake. All you guys fishing in tourneys in WY have been way over your limit for years. Calm down I’m only stirring the pot but it’s an interesting question