How many fishing pole

Printable View

October 9th, 2016, 01:47 PM
steelshot

How many fishing pole

How many lines/fishing poles are you allowed in your boat? I think its unlimited as long as you're only using as many poles as people in the boat....It's such a pain having to switch from lures to a catfish rig....Having to retie hook, put on slip bomber, boober stop, split shoot....Not to mention the time lost....Sometimes i feel like fishing trips are just getting practice in tying knots and searching threw tackle boxes....It would be so much more convenient to have a catfish/live bait set up and a lure set up. And switch between them as needed....
October 9th, 2016, 06:33 PM
Fisherman

As many as you can fit. In use depends on the amount of licenced anglers.
October 9th, 2016, 06:50 PM
Gunner 38

You could load your boat with as many as you can get in (as Fisherman mentioned already) as long as you use only 1 at a time EXCEPT IN CERTAIN AREAS (most of Lake Ontario) where 2 (at the same time) are permitted (per angler) . --- Check the regulations to find-out where 2 are legal .
October 11th, 2016, 09:19 AM
OUTCAST

Only in the great lakes is 2 rods aloud and from a boat only, shore fishing the great lakes your only aloud 1rod.
October 11th, 2016, 10:11 AM
steelshot

thanks for the responses....more rods will make life alote easer!
October 14th, 2016, 07:30 AM
tweedwolfscream

Yup - the rules are about how many lines you can fish with, not how many you can have rigged. Go nuts as long as they're not in the water.

You are allowed to fish two lines per person when fishing from a boat in the *main basins* of each of the Great Lakes -- this excludes most bays and harbours. See the exceptions section of the zone regs for each of the Great Lakes zones (FMZ 9, 13, 14, 19, 20) for the exact areas that applies to. Anywhere else it's one line per person except on ice.
October 14th, 2016, 02:18 PM
Woodsman

Quote:

Originally Posted by tweedwolfscream

You are allowed to fish two lines per person when fishing from a boat in the *main basins* of each of the Great Lakes -- this excludes most bays and harbours. See the exceptions section of the zone regs for each of the Great Lakes zones (FMZ 9, 13, 14, 19, 20) for the exact areas that applies to. Anywhere else it's one line per person except on ice.

Even in the main basins of the Great Lakes the rules vary.
Some lakes require you to be trolling to use 2 lines but others only require you to be in a boat.
Check the wording in the "exemptions" part of the regs.