These rules and regulations supersede all others governing fishing on Michigan/Wisconsin boundary waters that in any way conflict. Where regulations of Michigan and Wisconsin differ, persons shall comply with the regulations of the state in whose territorial waters they are fishing.

The interstate boundary waters in which fishing is to be governed by the special regulations are: The L. Michigan waters between the breakwalls at the mouth of the Menominee R. beginning at an imaginary line drawn between the most lakeward point of each breakwall. Menominee R., its sloughs and impoundments (Menominee, Dickinson, Iron Counties, Michigan; Florence, Marinette Counties, Wisconsin); Brule R. (Iron County, Michigan; Florence and Forest Counties, Wisconsin); Brule Island Impoundment, upstream to a line running east-west through the first island upstream from the junction of the Brule and Paint Rivers (Iron County, Michigan; Florence County, Wisconsin); Smoky L. (Iron County, Michigan; Vilas County, Wisconsin); Norwood L., Lac Vieux Desert, Crystal L., Mill L., Big Bateau L., Mamie L., West Bay L., Big L., Crampton L., Plum L., Tenderfoot L., Roach L., Little Presque Isle L., Cyrus L., Basin L., Stateline L. (Gogebic County, Michigan; Vilas County, Wisconsin); East Fork Montreal R. up to the mouth of Layman Cr. (Gogebic County, Michigan; Iron County, Wisconsin); Montreal R., (Gogebic County, Michigan; Iron County, Wisconsin).

Legal fishing methods
• Up to three lines per person with a total of three (3) hooks or baits may be used.
• Lines must be attended at all times.
• Dip nets not exceeding nine (9) feet square or in diameter, without walls may be used in the Menominee R. from April 1- May 14 for taking of suckers, redhorse, carp, smelt, and burbot (except from Hattie Street Bridge in Marinette-Menominee to the first dam upstream and within 200 feet of all other dams).
• Fish shanties used in ice fishing must be legibly marked with the name and address of owner. In Wisconsin boundary waters, fish shanty doors cannot be locked from inside during occupancy.
• You may fish from a motorboat with the motor running or a sailboat under sail only on the Michigan portions of the waters of Lac Vieux Desert in Gogebic Co.
• All persons holding a valid resident or nonresident sport fishing license issued by Michigan or Wisconsin may fish the entire area of a border water regardless of the state-line boundary.
• Crayfish may not be possessed or used for bait on Michigan-Wisconsin boundary waters.

Table 7 Michigan-Wisconsin Boundary Waters Regulations (Hook & Line)