Michigan · Sunfishes (bluegill, crappie, rock bass and other panfish)
Can you keep a sunfishes (bluegill, crappie, rock bass and other panfish) in Michigan?
Yes, with limits
Statewide
Open year-roundSize
No size limit stated
total length
Daily bag
25
per person per day, any combination of black crappie, white crappie, bluegill, green sunfish, hybrid sunfish, longear, pumpkinseed, redear, rock bass and warmouth
Possession
25
total you may hold
No minimum size, twenty-five a day across all of these species combined.
What we left out on purpose
- Lake sturgeon runs its own separate regulations table (harvest tags, very limited season, in most waters catch-and-release only) that eRegulations references but does not print inline on the general regulations page. Not modelled here rather than guessed.
- Smelt (2 gallons per person per day statewide) is dip-netted or seined rather than rod-and-reel targeted, and is left out for the same reason baitfish species are excluded elsewhere in this silo.
- Michigan's dozens of named-lake exceptions for northern pike (protected slots, relaxed size rules) and muskellunge (46-to-50-inch broodstock lakes) are not modelled beyond the two waters this site actually reports on — the same restraint used for Colorado's Gold Medal waters and Kansas's named-reservoir exceptions.
- The Walleye possession limit specific to Lake Erie/Detroit River/Lake St. Clair/St. Clair River is carried as unsettled because the source's own text shows a limit that should have already been updated for the current season (see reviewNote) — check DNR directly rather than trust a number here.
Other species in Michigan
Where to try today
- Detroit River 5/10 · Decent
- Lake St. Clair 6/10 · Decent