You are allowed three poles with two hooks on each pole per person and you can not be anchored. You have to be moving either trolling or wind power. If you anchor then I believe you have to have your poles tagged kinda like a trot line or jugs, and in that case you can have 50 poles out. But a lot of people don't realize that and why would a person need more than three poles anyway. Sometimes that can be a handful.

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