This also means if you catch your three in the morning you can not keep any that night, 3 per day!

Oh boy not this again.

Jonny- Is it a myth that the DNR can identify whether a walleye is from Red Lake based upon the meat/body of the fish? I know this sounds ridiculous, but I have had numerous people tell me this. I'm sure they have all heard the same rumor as well. Whenever someone tells me this, I just give them the "really?" response. Sounds like a good rumor to spread to deter people from keeping or possessing over their limt to me.

Special regulations for Upper Red and Lake of the Woods and statewide possession limits.

The statewide possession limit for walleye and sauger (either or combined) is six fish.

Regulations for Upper Red and LOW are special regulations, and both include exceptions to the statewide possession limits.

Winter regulations on LOW (Dec 1-April 14) allow a combined possession limit of 8 where not more than 4 may be walleye. There is also a protected slot where walleye 19.5-28.0 inches must be immediately released.

Regulations on Upper Red allow only three Red Lake walleye daily, and in possession. You may not take three walleye per day over consecutive days to accumulate a possession limit of six Red Lake walleye. There is also a protected slot where walleye 17.0-26.0 inches must be immediately released.

There have been questions concerning how combined trips to LOW and Red may be affected by statewide limits, and exceptions to those limits. The following will attempt to provide some clarification.

Possession on the water
At no time can a person possess on the ice or water more than their legal limit for that body of water. Any combination of walleye or sauger exceeding three fish from LOW would exceed the daily, and possession limit, on Upper Red. Protected size ranges differ so a legal size on one lake may not be on the other. When combining trips from other lakes leave all walleye and sauger (and any other special regulation species) on shore with resort operators clearly marked with the number of fish and where they came from.

Possible possession limit combinations for LOW
The LOW exception allows anglers to exceed the statewide possession limit with some combination of 8 LOW walleye and sauger, as long as only four are walleye.
Examples of a LOW possession limit:
4 walleye and 4 sauger
3 walleye and 5 sauger
2 walleye and 6 sauger
1 walleye and 7 sauger
or 8 sauger

A statewide possession limit of six allows any combination of walleye and sauger, so all six fish in a statewide limit could be walleye. So in a combined trip to Red and LOW, once you are off the waters, you could possess six walleye as long as only 3 walleye are from Upper Red and only 3 walleye are from LOW. Additional sauger (2 in this case) would be allowed to reach the 8 fish combined LOW exception.

A combined possession limit of walleye/sauger from LOW and Upper Red Lake cannot exceed 8 fish total, no more than 6 of these can be walleye, and no more than 3 of these walleye can be from Upper Red Lake.

"If you are on the water/ice of Upper Red Lake three walleyes in your possesion, thats it and thats all."