2015 Fishing Regs. - Zone 17/18 - Sunfish Limit

Anybody catch the limit for Sunfish in zone 17 and 18??

Is that a typo?
If not, why such a difference between a sport and conservation in limits??

It's been that way since at least 2010. Quite the disparity isn't it!!!

Apparently the government thinks it okay to allow someone to take 300 sunfish even when they're spawning

There are literally millions of sunfish. They breed like crazy and are a very viable species. I love eating bluegills and sunfish. Though I never keep more than 20 at a time a always eat them the same day.

*opens can of worms*
Anyone who remembers the perch conversations on the Simcoe page will get this

15 for conservation and 300 for sport lol, Might aswell not even make a limit, I doubt anyone could 300 in a day

I can certainly catch 300 in day, and a longer than 6 inches. But not a chance would I clean that many in one day. My fingers and hands are sore after 20 or 30.

Go electric!

If you have a couple guys on electric knives and one guy taking out rib cages you can go through fish in no time.

Who goes and targets them anyways? They are no fun to catch. Kids like to catch them and adults hate taking the hook out of their small little mouths.

To me they are bait fish. As long as there is enough in the lake for the game fish to eat... I am not concern about the limit or if they even have a limit on them. Just like smelts. Bait fish that people dip net by the thousands.

I disagree completely.

Sunfish are a huge target species in the US, and big bluegills are one of my favorite fish to target. For their size they put up a really good fight and it is amplified by ultralight tackle. Big fish are as challenging to catch as large specimens of any other species, and if you decide you want some keepers, they taste great.

I give you that catching swarms of 4-5" fish can be boring, but that is the same with perch and crappie. I get just as excited over a 10-12" bluegill as I do a 12-14" perch, and world record bluegill is within a few ounces of the world record yellow perch, so they have the potential to get really big.

I don't mind throwing the odd bluegill or sunfish in the live well when out chasing crappie. Like posted above they can get to be around the same size as a crappie

They're fun to target on ultralight gear especially once you get into some decent 8-9 inches

When people start talking sunfish - I envision just one fish - what I think is a sunfish. Blue gill and pumpkin seed are different fish? But considered part of the sunfish count?

Anyone else confused or just me?

Than

It's actually more than just bluegill and pumpkinseed. From the guide: Sunfish – For the purpose of this summary, sunfish includes pumpkinseed, bluegill, green sunfish, warmouth, orange spotted sunfish, longear sunfish and Lepomis hybrids.

Betcha didn't even know half of those existed!

Where does rock bass fall under? Why do they not mention rock bass? I do not see anywhere on any zone with rock bass limits.