Kansas · Walleye, sauger and saugeye
Walleye, sauger and saugeye size limit in Kansas
You can keep one today — within these limits
Statewide
Open year-round| Size limit | 15 inches and up | total length |
|---|---|---|
| Daily bag | 5 | per person per day, all three combined |
| Possession | 15 | total you may hold |
15 inches, five a day combined — except this minimum size does not apply in rivers, streams or tailwaters, where there is no minimum.
Cheney Reservoir
Open year-round| Size limit | 21 inches and up | total length |
|---|---|---|
| Daily bag | 2 | per person per day |
| Possession | 6 | total you may hold |
21-inch minimum and only 2 a day, well above the statewide 15-inch/5-fish rule — Cheney is managed for trophy walleye.
Milford Reservoir
Open year-round| Size limit | 21 inches and up | total length |
|---|---|---|
| Daily bag | 2 | per person per day |
| Possession | 6 | total you may hold |
Same 21-inch minimum and 2-fish bag as Cheney — Kansas's two biggest walleye reservoirs share the same trophy management.
What we left out on purpose
- Kansas's blanket rule — possession is three times the daily creel limit unless a water lists its own possession number — was applied to every statewide and named-water entry above. No individual water in this table stated a possession number that broke from the 3x rule.
- Milford and Cheney both carry dozens of further named-water rules across Kansas that are not modelled here — only the two reservoirs this site actually reports on (Milford Reservoir, Cheney Reservoir) got individual regions, the same restraint used for Colorado's Gold Medal waters and Louisiana's and Mississippi's named-water exceptions.
- Bullfrogs (8 per day, 24 in possession after day three of the season) are not a finfish and are not modelled here, consistent with every other state in this silo.
Other species limits in Kansas
Where to try today
- Cheney Reservoir 6/10 · Biting
- El Dorado Lake 5/10 · Picky
- Milford Lake 6/10 · Biting