Turtle Flambeau Walley Limit 3 this year

[George G]

The DNR report shows a 3 bag limit for this years fishing on the Turtle. Good News Have at it.

[Mark Benson]

This was posted by Guide Scott Biscobing, a Rhinelander guide yesterday. I had heard in the Lakeland Times that this posting from the WDNR would be coming.

As a follow-up here is the WDNR story that shows that these limits are based on the Chippewa declaration, not the actual spearing and revisions could be made before Memorial Day. http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_Lookup.asp?id=218#art1

Mark

[George G]

This was posted by Guide Scott Biscobing, a Rhinelander guide yesterday. I had heard in the Lakeland Times that this posting from the WDNR would be coming.

As a follow-up here is the WDNR story that shows that these limits are based on the Chippewa declaration, not the actual spearing and revisions could be made before Memorial Day. http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_Lookup.asp?id=218#art1

Mark

Hi Mark, the 3 limit for the Turtle is the revised limit so it won't be changed. Were good to go at 3 and that is OK The list has now been published. Done deal. Good for one year.

[BlueRanger]

Mark is technically correct - the DNR's use of the terms "adjusted" and "revised" is a little deceptive. It means they've been revised downward from the general statewide limit based on the declared tribal harvest. It would be less confusing if they called it planned harvest, because declared harvest sounds like an after-the-fact number when it's really a statement of the number they intend to take. But from a practical standpoint it doesn't matter much for us, since the initial adjusted/revised limits assume that the tribes harvest their full declaration on all of the lakes, and the only lakes affected by the final revisions will be those where the actual spearing harvest was well below what was declared. That's rarely the case on the TFF, so unless they had a horrible spearing season, we're going to stay at 3 fish. But as the DNR news release points out, every year about 2/3 of the lakes that are initially declared don't get speared at all, and those lakes get their limits adjusted upward in the final revision.