Bag Limits and Size Limits - making them low enough to help?

[Markie Boy]

In Wisconsin we have had pretty high panfish bag limits - used to be 50, now it's 25. Some lakes have finally gotten down to 10 per panfish species, and a very few down to 5 per panfish species.

Ice fishing takes a LOT of fish out of the lakes, as does early spring/spawn fishing, and some of our lakes that used to be pretty good, you work to catch 5 decent crappies.

I think a bag limit of 10 per person is still too much. When I have another person in the boat and we keep 20 fish it seems like a lot. I'm not sure we'll get the help we need until we get to a limit of 5 panfish per species (5 crappie, 5 bluegill, 5 perch - allowed a total of 15 is what they have done on a very few lakes).

Has anyone else seen this, and have you seen anything that helped turn it around?

[Ketchn]

one of my buds used to go up there and ketch fish and I thought he told me something like 5 a day ....
not sure is me

[Grainraiser]

Crappie are prolific spawners and suspect much depends on what part of the country your in as to what the limit should be. I leave it up to the wildlife biologist to figure out the numbers since they are experts in the field.