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Walleye Regulations Remain Tight at Mille Lacs Lake For 2014

2014 Walleye Regulations Remain Tight at Mille Lacs Lake

If you want to catch walleye on Mille Lacs Lake this year, hopefully the tune of “catch-and-release” has a nice ring to it. In an attempt to curb the lake’s recent inability to produce large crops of young walleye, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has decided a mere 60,000 pounds of walleye can be taken from one of the state’s premiere fishing lakes in 2014. This year’s “safe-harvest level” is a far cry from the 600,000-pound safe-harvest level that was set only...