This is the question that I asked on September 17, 2002 06:59 AM to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources via their website.

When launching a boat at the Escanaba, Gladstone or Kipling boat ramps to fish the area south of the only one walleye over 23" special fish size limit of Lt. Bay De Noc, can I return to these boat ramps or a resort where I am staying with a limit of walleye where all walleye are over 23"'s without receiving a citation for more than one walleye over 23"?

This is the reply I received on September 18, 2002 07:40 AM:

we wrote - Yes you can. This would be the same as driving your car back to your resting place with legal fish. You should not do this if you intend to stop your boat and fish where the regulations differ.

This was received from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

I carry this e-mail with me whenever I go fishing in the upper peninsula.