Fishing with multiple lines should impact possession limit

How is it that you can fish with more lines per person in almost every other state than you can in Minnesota? Our neighbor states have always allowed more lines than Minnesota does. 
Today you can fish with one line in open water and two lines when fishing through the ice. It varies, but I know, for example, in Nebraska you can use four lines at a time when fishing through the ice. 
Many other states also have higher daily and in-possession limits. Daily limit is how many you keep and kill in a single day, and possession limit is how many you can have in total physically with you and in the freezer at home.
The answer is, other states don’t have near the population and the number of fishermen that Minnesota does.
If I catch six walleyes today and take them home and clean them, I cannot legally catch another walleye until I have eaten the other six. The possession limit and the daily limit are the same. Makes little sense to me, but it is the rule nonetheless.
There are two movements afoot in Minnesota this legislative session that would do these two things: For one, it would make fishing with two lines legal in the summer months if you pay an extra $5 for your license; and two, it would reduce the daily walleye limit from six per day to four per day. I am unaware of how the possession limits might be affected. These are not tied together. 
I don’t have an issue if both proposals pass together. I would not support two lines and a six-walleye limit at the same time.
In most places in the state these two changes would make little to no difference if you could fish with two lines and keep six walleyes per day. In my opinion it would/could make a big difference in and around Rock, Nobles and surrounding counties. 
The reason I say that is when you fish in and around my backyard, the fishing is either pretty darn good or it absolutely sucks. There are few days in the middle.
When our shallow prairie lakes turn on, the bite gets really hot and catching a limit can be done for many days in a row with little effort. When that bite turns off, you might fish for 40 hours and not catch a single fish.
It is these hot bite times, and almost every lake has one or two per season, when I think the harvest would be too high and the overall quality of fishing would decline over time. Some anglers can’t help themselves. They will over-limit and over-possess when the bite is good. 
One angler fishing two lines is like two anglers fishing one line each. You can change colors and figure out what the fish are biting on that day much faster and more efficiently than one person with one line.
The second line in Minnesota would cost $5 more. I think this fee should be $25 more. All funds raised by the fee would be used to increase walleye stocking across the state. The $5 is inconsequential. How much could the state possibly raise at $5 a hit? The $25 extra could actually raise significant funds and help replenish the extra fish that would be caught with more lines.
If the limit were reduced to four per day, this would also offset the expected higher harvest rates with two lines.
I love to fish. I don’t love to eat fish. Keeping fewer fish for me is no big deal, but my folks just love the fish I drop off for them.
How many fish does one person need?  Do you need to kill 50 fish a season? How about 100 fish per season? I would rather catch four per day and do it more often than catch six per day less often.
Walleyes in southwest Minnesota lakes are just like stock cows in a pen. When you remove one, there is one less and in almost all cases there will not be another one to replace it until a human puts one back through fish stocking. 
Little natural reproduction takes place in southwest Minnesota. Think about these two changes and make your opinions known to those in charge. Decisions are made by the people who show up. 
 
Scott Rall, Worthington, is a habitat conservationist, avid hunting and fishing enthusiast and is president of Nobles County Pheasants Forever. He can be reached at scottarall@gmail.com. or on Twitter @habitat champion.