New fishing regulations

[tikkalover]

BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) — North Dakota Game and Fish announce updated fishing regulations for 2026-2028 seasons.

Apart of the regulation changes:

• Allows for the use of white sucker as legal live baitfish.
• Allows for the harvest of chinook salmon with the reinitiation of a snagging season.
• Allows for the harvest of salmon with archery and spearing equipment during the new snagging season.
• The requirement to register before participating in darkhouse spearfishing eliminated.
• White bass daily and possession limits increased to 30 and 60.

 

[Rut2much]

• White bass daily and possession limits increased to 30 and 60.

Oh my, will be nothing left of the hwy's from mpls to dvl.

 

[rodcontrol]

BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) — North Dakota Game and Fish announce updated fishing regulations for 2026-2028 seasons.

Apart of the regulation changes:

• Allows for the use of white sucker as legal live baitfish.
• Allows for the harvest of chinook salmon with the reinitiation of a snagging season.
• Allows for the harvest of salmon with archery and spearing equipment during the new snagging season.
• The requirement to register before participating in darkhouse spearfishing eliminated.
• White bass daily and possession limits increased to 30 and 60.

white suckers are not legal statewide

• 2-2-3.2.Red River and Bois de Sioux River (up to the first vehicular bridge or crossing on any of its tributaries), Lake Audubon, Devils Lake complex south of US Highway 2 and Stump Lake, the only legal live baitfish species are:
  • fathead minnows, creek chubs, brook sticklebacks and white suckers.
• 2-2-3.3.Lake Sakakawea, Lake Oahe, Missouri River and the Yellowstone River; up to the initial point where either a bridge spanning a tributary or a road crossing over a tributary is encountered, whichever occurs first - the only legal live baitfish species are:
  • fathead minnows, creek chubs, brook sticklebacks, white suckers and rainbow smelt.

 

[guywhofishes]

Oh my, will be nothing left of the hwy's from mpls to dvl.

in the streets of MSP right now....

 

[Sluggo]

Old limit for whiteys was 20 and 40. Wonder what diff 30 and 60 will really make for anything or anyone other than a few MSP folks.

 

[guywhofishes]

Old limit for whiteys was 20 and 40. Wonder what diff 30 and 60 will really make for anything or anyone other than a few MSP folks.

About 50%?

 

[SDMF]

Old limit for whiteys was 20 and 40. Wonder what diff 30 and 60 will really make for anything or anyone other than a few MSP folks.

I started fishing Devils avidly in 2002. I'm on that body of water/system from Pelican to Stump 25-40 days/summer. Drive up from Fargo Fridays or Saturdays and home again Sundays unless it's a long/Hoiday weekend or I've taken time off which I often do.

In all that time on the water and/or back and forth often with a boat in tow, I've been checked by an honest-to-goodness ND Game Warden exactly 1x. IIRC there were 2 wardens were in their boat. We were checked for licenses, limits, life-jackets, and a fire extinguisher. All good, pleasant experience, everything in order and we were back to fishing reasonably quickly. I'm just wondering how on earth in 500+ days, the vast majority being weekends, between, actually fishing, towing a boat, and cleaning fish at one of the public cleaning stations, I've only ever had contact w/game wardens 1x. I've been checked more often than that either putting in or retrieving my boat on the Sheyene river just N of Valley City and I bet I've used that ramp less than a dozen times and not at all for a couple of decades...

I've been "Creel Surveyed" probably a dozen times or so from Grahams all the way down to the State Park @ Stump.

I'd sure be OK with a LOT more ND G&F visibility/activity in the Devils Lake basin.