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Lake Erie Walleye Limits for 2004 Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2003 Ohio

The Ohio Wildlife Council reduced the walleye bag limit in March and April from 4 fish to 3 on the Ohio waters of Lake Erie. The rest of the year the bag limit will remain at 6 fish. The OWC also established a year-round 15" walleye size limit and banned the keeping of Lake Erie smallmouth bass from May 1 to the third Saturday in June.

Michigan

Closed its Lake Erie walleye season from April 1 to May 31, increased its walleye size limit from 13" to a minimum of 15" and reduced the daily bag limit from 6 to 5 walleye. Detroit River walleye fishing will be open all year.

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania raised the minimum size limit to 18" with a daily bag limit reduced from 6 to 4. Its walleye season remains the same, with fishing allowed from the first Saturday in May to March 15 of the following year.
New York

The daily walleye bag limit in the New York waters of Lake Erie has been reduced from 5 to 4 fish per day, with a 15" size limit and shuts down walleye fishing on its lakes, rivers and streams from March 15 to the first Saturday in May when walleyes are spawning.

Ontario

Ontario will be the last to announce how it will reduce its annual walleye catch. With the bulk of the Ontario harvest allocated to its large commercial fishery I Ministry of Natural Resources officials will set commercial quotas after the Lake Erie Committee meeting in March 2004.

Wild card factors include:

Poor reproduction in 2000

2002 Poor weather in 2002

Invasive species

Ontario's gill nets

Lake Erie Walleye Limits for 2004 Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2003 Ohio

The Ohio Wildlife Council reduced the walleye bag limit in March and April from 4 fish to 3 on the Ohio waters of Lake Erie. The rest of the year the bag limit will remain at 6 fish. The OWC also established a year-round 15" walleye size limit and banned the keeping of Lake Erie smallmouth bass from May 1 to the third Saturday in June.


Wow, very sporting of them to reduce the catch limit by 1 whole fish during the spawn!

CC Lad