The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced that the 2024-25 Guide To Wisconsin’s Fishing Regulations is available online.
These regulations, which include changes to walleye and sauger bag limits on inland waters and new registration rules for small tournaments, will go into effect on April 1.
All residents and non-residents over 16 must have a 2024-25 general fishing license to fish in Wisconsin. Annual resident licenses cost $20 each, or purchase a spousal license for $31 so you and your spouse can fish together.
Several new regulations and changes to bag limits have been implemented this year. These changes include:
• A new small tournament registration requirement.
• Statewide daily bag limit of three walleye and sauger per day on all inland waters.
• Walleye bag limits for the Great Lakes (including Green Bay) and Wisconsin-Iowa, Wisconsin-Minnesota and Wisconsin-Michigan boundary waters will remain unchanged, as will limits on any water with a bag limit currently lower than three.
• A person may harvest walleye from two different lakes or rivers with a three-fish daily bag limit as long as they don’t exceed the five-fish total daily bag limit.
• A daily bag limit of 10 panfish in Lake Mendota in Dane County.
• Changing the musky minimum length limit to 50 inches on the Wisconsin River from the Lake DuBay Dam upstream to the first dam in Merrill.
• Creating an urban fishing pond in Suamico in Brown County.
New bag and length limits have also been enacted for specific waterbodies in Oconto County and other Wisconsin counties.
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