Express Terms for Amendments to: TITLE 6. DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION CHAPTER I. FISH AND WILDLIFE SUBCHAPTER C. FISHING PART 10. SPORTFISHING REGULATIONS SECTION 2 Sportfishing regulations and Section 3 Additional special fishing regulations for certain inland waters. § 10.1 Sportfishing regulations. Existing paragraph 10.1(b)(1) is amended to read as follows: Minimum Daily Species Open season length limit (1) (a) Trout (brook brown April 1 through None 5 and rainbow trout and October 15 hybrids of these species; and splake) (b) Lake Trout April 1 through 21″ 3 October 15 (c) Landlocked Salmon April 1 through 15″ 3 October 15 (d) See 10.1 (e) for inland trout stream regulations. § 10.2 Boundary water fishing regulations. Existing clause 10.2(i)(2)(a) is amended to read as follows: Species Open season Minimum length Daily limit (a) Trout Upstream of bridge in Lordville: see 10.3(e)(6)(c) Downstream of bridge in Lordville: see below [First Saturday after April [14″ in Delaware River; [1 in Delaware 11] April 1 through 12″ in W. Br. Delaware River; 2 in W. October 15 River] Br. Delaware None River] 1 October 16 through [the Catch and release only Artificial lures Friday preceding the first only [in W. Br. Saturday after April Delaware 11]March 31 River] 1 § 10.3 Additional special fishing regulations for certain inland waters. Existing subdivision 10.3(b) Table A—Fishing regulations for specially designated waters. is repealed and replaced as follows: Open Minimum Daily County Water Species Season Length Limit Method (1) Albany (a) Thompsons Trout All year 12″ 3 Lake (b) Hudson River All species All year Catch and All fish shall be from Troy Dam release returned to the water upstream to immediately. Bait fish Bakers Falls in listed under the Village of Environmental Hudson Falls Conservation Law, and tributaries section 11-1315(1) in this section may be possessed for to first barrier use as fish bait. Use of impassable by tip-ups permitted. fish, Mohawk River below Route 32 bridge (c) Hudson River Black bass Third 15″ 5 from Troy Dam Saturday in downstream June and all through tributaries in November this section to 30 the first barrier impassable by fish (d) Normans Kill Black bass Third 10″ 5 mouth to Saturday in Watervliet June Reservoir through November 30 December Catch Artificial 1 through and lures only the Friday release preceding only the third Saturday in June (2) Allegany 2 (a) All waters Trout April 1 None 5 with no Ice fishing except as through more permitted listed below or October 15 than 2 inland trout longer streams (see than 12″ 10.3(e)) (b) Rushford Lake Trout April 1 None 5 with no Ice fishing through more permitted November than 2 30 longer than 12″ (c) Allen Lake Trout All year None 5 with no Ice fishing more permitted than 2 longer than 12″ (3) Bronx (a) Indian Lake, All All year Catch and release fishing only. All Crotona Park, fish (except snakeheads) shall be VanCortlandt returned to the water immediately. Lake Any snakeheads removed from NYS waters shall be immediately euthanized and reported to the DEC Regional Fisheries Office and shall NOT be returned to any water body. (4) Broome (a) All waters Trout April 1 None 5 with no except those through more listed below or October 15 than 2 inland trout longer streams (see than 12″ 10.3(e)) (b) Arctic Lake, Trout All year None 5 with no Ice fishing Greenwood more permitted Lake, than 2 Nanticoke longer Lake than 12″ (c) Chenango Muskellunge First 40″ 1 River, and Tiger Saturday in combined Susquehanna muskellunge May River, through Tioughnioga March 15 River American All year Catch and release fishing only. All Shad American Shad shall be returned to the water immediately. (d) Whitney Point Walleye First 18″ 3 Reservoir and Saturday in the upper May Otselic River through upstream to March 15 Cortland County Route 169 bridge at Landers Corners 3 (5) Cattaraugus (a) All waters Trout April 1 None 5 with no Ice fishing except as through more permitted listed below or October 15 than 2 inland trout longer streams (see than 12″ 10.3(e)) (b) Case Lake, Trout All year None 5 with no Ice fishing Harwood more permitted Lake, New than 2 Albion Lake, longer Red House than 12″ Lake, Quaker Lake, Science Lake (6) Cayuga (a) All waters Trout April 1 None 5 with no except those through more listed below or October 15 than 2 inland trout longer streams (see than 12″ ″ 10.3(e)) (b) Cross Lake, Northern pike First 22″ 5 Ice fishing Seneca River Saturday in permitted May through March 15 Walleye First 18″ 3 Saturday in May through March 15 (d) Owasco Lake Lake Trout All year 15″ 3 Outlet (7) Chautauqua (a) All waters Trout April 1 None 5 with no Ice fishing except as through more permitted listed below or October 15 than 2 inland trout longer streams (see than 12″ 10.3(e)) (b) Chautauqua Muskellunge Last 40″ 1 Lake and its and tiger Saturday in tributaries and muskellunge May the Chadakoin through River to November Warner Dam 30 (8) Chemung (a) All waters Trout April 1 None 5 with no except those through more listed below or October 15 than 2 inland trout longer streams (see than 12″ 10.3(e)) 4 (b) Chemung Muskellunge First 40″ 1 River and its and Tiger Saturday in combined tributaries Muskellunge May through March 15 American All year Catch and release Shad fishing only. All American Shad shall be returned to the water immediately (c) Park Station Trout All year None 5 Ice fishing Pond permitted (9) Chenango (a) All waters Trout April 1 None 5 with no except those through more listed below or October 15 than 2 inland trout longer streams (see than 12″ 10.3(e)) (b) Chenango Muskellunge First 40″ 1 River and Tiger Saturday in combined Susquehanna Muskellunge May River through March 15 American All year Catch and release Shad fishing only. All American Shad shall be returned to the water immediately (c) Guilford Lake, Trout All year None 5 with no Ice fishing Mill Brook more permitted Reservoir than 2 longer than 12″ (10) Clinton (a) Upper Sunfish All year None Any Chateaugay number Lake, Chazy Lake trout All year 21″ 3 Ice fishing Lake permitted Trout All year None 5 Ice fishing permitted Landlocked All year 15″ 3 Ice fishing salmon permitted (b) Great Chazy Fishing River from prohibited Route 9B at March 16 Coopersville to until the Perrys Mills first Dam Saturday in May 5 (c) Scomotion Burbot December Snatching Creek from 1 through and blind mouth March 31 snatching upstream to permitted Pardy Road (11) Columbia (a) Queechy Lake Trout All year 12″ 3 Ice fishing permitted (b) Hudson River Black bass Third 15″ 5 from Troy Dam Saturday in downstream June and all through tributaries in November this section to 30 the first barrier impassable by fish (c) Taghkanic Walleye First 18″ 3 Ice fishing Lake Saturday in permitted May through March 15 (12) Cortland (a) All waters Trout April 1 None 5 with no Ice fishing except those through more permitted listed below or October 15 than 2 inland trout longer streams (see than 12″ 10.3(e)) (b) Goodale Lake, Trout All year None 5 with no Ice fishing Little York more permitted Lake and than 2 Casterline longer Pond, Tri- than 12″ County Pond (c) Otselic River Walleye First 18″ 3 from County Saturday in Route 169 May bridge at through Landers March 15 Corners downstream to Broome County line (d) Otselic River, Black bass Third 10″ 5 Tioughnioga Saturday in River, East June Branch through Tioughnioga November River, West 30 6 Branch December Catch Artificial Tioughnioga 1 through and lures only River the Friday release proceeding only the third Saturday in June (13) Delaware (a) Delaware See section 10.2(j) of River and this Part West Branch Delaware River forming Pennsylvania State line (b) Cannonsville Trout April 1 12″ 3 Reservoir through October 15 (c) Pepacton Trout April 1 15″ 2 fish Reservoir through with no September more 30 than 1 longer than 21″ (d) Big Pond, Trout All year 12″ 3 Ice fishing Little Pond permitted (e) Mud Pond Trout April 1 12″ 3 through October 15 (f) Trout Pond, Trout April 1 12″ 2 Artificial Huggins Lake through lures only October 15 (g) East Sidney Walleye First 18″ 3 Ice fishing Reservoir Saturday in permitted May through March 15 (14) Dutchess (a) Upton Lake, Trout All year None 5 Ice fishing Sylvan Lake permitted (b) Morgan Lake Trout All year None 3 Ice fishing permitted (c) Hudson River Black bass Third 15″ 5 from Troy Dam Saturday in downstream June and all through tributaries in November this section to 30 the first barrier impassable by fish (d) Ellis Lake Ice fishing permitted 7 (e) All other rivers Black bass Third 10″ 5 and streams Saturday in except Hudson June River from through Troy Dam November downstream 30 and all December Catch Artificial tributaries in 1 through and lures only this section to the Friday release the first barrier preceding only impassable by the third fish Saturday in June (15) Erie (a) All waters Trout April 1 None 5 with no Ice fishing except as through more permitted listed below or October 15 than 2 inland trout longer streams (see than 12″ 10.3(e)) (b) Cattaraugus See Great Lakes Regulations Creek downstream of Springville Dam (c) That portion of See Great Lakes Regulations Ellicott Creek within Amherst State Park (16) Essex (a) Bigsby Pond, Lake trout April 1 15″ 3 Maximum Copperas through of 3 tip-ups Pond October 15 allowed Fishing prohibited October 16 through March 31 (b) Eagle Lake, Trout All year None 5 Ice fishing Connery Pond permitted (c) First Lake of Lake trout April 1 15″ 3 Use or Essex Chain, through possession Pharoh Lake October 15 of baitfish