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8:09-cv-02665-RBH Date Filed 10/14/09 Entry Number 22-34 Page 1 of 21 Colburn 15 8:09-cv-02665-RBH Date Filed 10/14/09 Entry Number 22-34 Page 2 of 21 General Information Inland, Joint and Coastal Fishing How to Measure Inland Game Fish The harvest of Waters. Both the Wildlife Resources Commission and the Div- several game fishes is regulated by length limits. Fish length is ision of Marine Fisheries have licensing, management and determined by measuring along a straight line (in other words, regulatory authority in certain waters along the coast of not along the curvature of the body) the distance from the tip of North Carolina. These waters are designated as inland, joint the closed mouth to the tip of the compressed caudal (tail) fin. and coastal waters. The Wildlife Resources Commission has jurisdiction in inland waters, and the Division of Marine Fisheries has jurisdiction (except that pertaining to inland game fishes) in coastal waters. Both agencies have licensing and regulatory authority in joint waters. The boundaries between inland, joint and coastal fishing waters are prominently marked with metal signs posted adjacent to the affected waters. Lists of these waters, with their boundaries indicated, are available from the Wildlife Resources Commis- sion, 1721 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1721 (www.ncwildlife.org; see Fishing–Publications–Coastal, Joint and Inland Fishing Waters Designations in N.C.), or from the Division of Marine Fisheries, P.O.Box 769, Morehead City, NC 28557 (wwW.ncdmf.net; see Quick Links–Maps to Download). INLAND GAME FISH The following fishes are designated as inland game fish: SPECIAL REGULATIONS FOR JOINT FISHING WATERS ● Black bass (largemouth, smallmouth and spotted) ● It is unlawful to possess striped bass or striped bass hybrids ● Crappie (white and black) less than 18 inches in length. ● Sunfish ● It is unlawful to possess striped bass or striped bass hybrids ● Bluegill between 22 and 27 inches in length in the joint waters of the ● Redbreast sunfish (robin) Central-Southern Striped Bass Management Area. ● Redear sunfish (shellcracker) ● It is unlawful to possess striped bass or striped bass hybrids May ● Pumpkinseed through September in the joint waters of the Central-Southern ● Warmouth and Albemarle Sound Striped Bass Management Areas. ● Green sunfish ● It is unlawful to possess striped bass or striped bass hybrids in ● Roanoke bass the joint waters of the Cape Fear River. ● Rock bass ● It is unlawful to possess more than one daily creel limit of ● Flier INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION striped bass or striped bass hybrids, in combination, per person ● All other species of the family Centrarchidae per day, regardless of the number of management areas fished. ● Mountain trout (including but not limited to brook, brown ● It is unlawful to possess striped bass or striped bass hybrids that and rainbow trout) are not in agreement with size and creel limits of the waters ● Kokanee salmon being fished, regardless of other management areas that may ● Walleye have been fished that day. ● Sauger ● It is unlawful to net fish for striped bass or their hybrids in ● Pickerel, chain (jack) and redfin joint waters except as authorized by rules of the Marine ● Muskellunge Fisheries Commission. ● White bass ● It is unlawful to use seines, gill nets or trawl nets in the Lake ● Bodie bass (striped bass x white bass) Mattamuskeet canals. ● Striped bass, in inland waters ● It is unlawful to use any net, net stakes, or electrical fishing ● Shad, American and hickorY, in inland waters device within 800 feet downstream of the dam at Lock No. 1 ● White perch, in inland waters on the Cape Fear River. ● Yellow perch, in inland waters ● It is unlawful to possess more than 10 American or hickorY shad ● All other species of perch and pickerel in aggregate, per person per day, taken by hook-and-line. ● Spotted sea trout, in inland waters Otherwise, in joint fishing waters, commercial fishing and licensing— ● Flounder, in inland waters including commercial trotlines—are subject to the coastal ● Red drUm (channel bass, red fish and pUppY drUm), in inland Waters fishing laws and regulations; inland game fish and hook-and- line licensing—exclusive of commercial trotlines—are subject to the inland fishing laws and regulations. 16 Please note: For the convenience of the reader, major regulation changes appear in RED. 8:09-cv-02665-RBH Date Filed 10/14/09 Entry Number 22-34 Page 3 of 21 GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR INLAND GAME FISH ● In the inland waters of the Roanoke River upstream of the U.S. INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Purchase and Sale 258 bridge, only a single barbless hook or a lure with a single ● The purchase and sale of inland game fish are unlawful, except barbless hook may be used from April 1 to June 30. “Barbless” from and by licensed commercial trout ponds and fish means that the hook either does not have a barb or that the propagators. barb is bent down. Spawning Areas Using Trotlines, Set-hooks and Jug-hooks ● Fishing is prohibited from Feb. 15 through April 15 in the Linville ● Trotlines, set-hooks and jug-hooks may be fished under any River from the mouth, as marked at Lake James, upstream to the license that authorizes basic fishing privileges. N.C. 126 bridge. ● It is unlawful to use live bait with trotlines, set-hooks or jug-hooks. Manner of Taking ● Trotlines (a line with multiple hooks) must be set parallel to the ● Inland game fish may be taken only with a hook and line. nearest shore in all public waters, where their use is authorized. ● Landing nets may be used to land fishes caught on a hook and line. ● Each trotline, set-hook and jug-hook shall have attached the ● It is unlawful to snag fish by pulling or jerking a device name and address of the user legibly inscribed. equipped with one or more hooks through the water for the ● Each trotline shall be conspicuously marked at each end, and purpose of impaling fish. each set-hook shall be conspicuously marked at one end with ● American and hickorY shad may be taken with bow nets from a prominent flag or floating object. March 1 through April 30. ● Metal cans and glass containers cannot be used as markers. BASS IDENTIFICATION CHART M0RONE IDENTIFICATION CHART Longest spine over twice as long as shortest spine Deep notch between fins Stripes often faint Upper jaw extends No scales at beyond eye base of fin No scales at Horizontal band base of fin One patch of teeth on tongue Largemouth Bass Found statewide White Bass Longest spine less than twice the length of shortest spine Stripes distinct and Upper jaw Shallow notch between fins usually continuous extends to back of eye Scales at base of fin Scales at One patch of base of fin teeth on tongue Horizontal streaks Horizontal band Two patches of teeth on tongue Spotted Bass Striped Bass Found in the mountains, foothills and Little River in Harnett County Longest spine less than twice the length Stripes distinct and of shortest spine usually broken Upper jaw doesn’t Shallow notch between fins extend beyond Scales at back of eye base of fin Scales at Two patches of Vertical bars base of fin teeth on tongue Smallmouth Bass Bodie Bass Found in the mountains and foothills (striped bass hybrid) Please note: For the convenience of the reader, major regulation changes appear in RED. 17 8:09-cv-02665-RBH Date Filed 10/14/09 Entry Number 22-34 Page 4 of 21 ● The nUmber of jUg-hooks that maY be fished is limited to 70 per boat. State Fish Hatcheries ● Trotlines, throwlines, set-hooks and jug-hooks must be fished ● It is unlawful to fish at any time in the waters or on the property daily, and all fish must be removed daily. of any state fish hatcherY, including Bones Creek from the Lake ● Untended trotlines, set-hooks and jug-hooks, as evidenced by Rim Dam to the U.S. 401 Bypass (Raeford Road) with the the absence of bait, may be removed from the water by wildlife following exception: enforcement officers. - McKinney Lake Reservoir at McKinney Lake State Exceptions Fish HatcherY. ● No trotlines or set-hooks may be used in the impounded waters Seasons There are no closed seasons on inland game fishes of Sandhills Game Land, in designated Public Mountain Trout with the following exceptions: Waters, or in Cheoah Lake. 1. In designated Hatchery-Supported Trout Waters, where the ● In Lake Waccamaw it is unlawful to use trotlines or set-hooks season for all fishes is closed and fishing is prohibited from from May 1–Sept. 30. March 1–April 2, 2010. This closed season for fishing does not apply to power supply lakes or municipal water supply lakes. REGULATIONS FOR WARMWATER GAME FISH State waters are classified as: inland, joint and coastal (see “Gen- game fish and under the jurisdictionofthe Wildlife Resources Com- eral Information" on page 16). These state waters are collectively missioninall public waters; whereas, some species, including striped referred to as public fishing waters. Certain fishes, including large- bass, white and yellow perch, flounder and red drum, are desig- mouth bass, crappie and mountain trout are designated inland nated as inland game fish onlyininland waters (see listonpage 16). LOCATION SIZE LIMIT DAILY CREEL LIMIT* Black bass (including largemouth, smallmouth and spotted) - Roanoke RiVer doWnstream of Roanoke Rapids Dam 14-inch minimum 5 in combination - Tar River downstream of Tar River Reservoir Dam - Neuse River downstream of Falls Lake Dam - Lake Raleigh (Wake Co.) - Haw River downstream of Jordan Lake Dam - Deep River downstream of Lockville Dam - Cape Fear River - Waccamaw River downstream of Lake Waccamaw Dam - Lumber River, including Drowning Creek - All other public waters east of Interstate 95, except Tar River Reservoir (Nash Co.) - South Yadkin River downstream of Cooleemee Dam INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION - Yadkin-Pee Dee River from Idols Dam to the South Carolina state line, including High Rock Lake, Tuckertown Reservoir, Badin Lake, Falls Lake (StanlY and MontgomerY counties), Lake TillerY and Blewett Falls Lake.