Pan fish are the best eating along with walleye. It use to be 50 limit then 25 I say leave it at 25. I fish and love the taste of great fish as do my kids. Many people fish and release I take home a good catch and eat them. They are plentiful and Bassman people have fished at the 50 limit and NEVER depleted them.

pan fish hugh the poor bread and butter pan fish of the midwest and elsewhere are mostly been taken out by the big mouth muskey and hungry lake trout, they eat more than any fisherman can take, yet dnr still plants musky and trout in waters they do not belong, not much chance for the little pan fish to servive, thay cant figure it, out or do they?.

This is where the DNR receives your questionnaires, shreds them, and spends $5M of your tax money doing exactly what they decided to do 6 months ago.

The DNR needs to implement a different bag limit on pan fish,these days our resources are becoming over taken by meat hunters,that being said a license does allow you to harvest 25 of these tasty critters. In my opinion the people out doing this on a regular basis will endanger the population of quality fish. Trust me they do it on a regular basis,so I think a 15 fish limit will work ,even a ten fish limit during the spawning period would be better for the month of June. We will see.

Panfish? Why isn't anyone developing a statewide management plan for night crawlers? The last thing we need in this state are mismanaged annelids!