The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-04-30
Lawful to Catch Pike and Other Fish,
Except Bass, With Hook
and Line.
CONSIDERABLE ICE IN LAKES,
BUT THE RIVERS ARE ALL OPEN
Although Weather Has Been Cold,
Prospects Are Good For Catch
ing Fine Strings.

Tomorrow (May 1st) is the
first day of the opening Of the
fishing season, whereby the ang-
Ter may fish with pole and hook
and line.
The weather conditions are
such that the opening Of the
season does not promise to be
an a~spicious one. There is still
ice in Lake Bemidji, with no i'm
mediate prospect of there beng
a breakup, at least not within
the next five days.
However, there is plenty of
open water about the shore of
the lake, and the rivers and
streams are clear, which will
give some excellent chances for
good catches.
The following are extracts
from the game and fish laws
relative to the catching of fish,
and it would be well to cut them
out and preserve them:
''Sec. 40. Fish May Be Taken,
When. No person shall catch,
take, or kill or have in possession
or under control, for any pur-
pose whatever, any of the fish
hereinafter mentioned within
the periods herein limited, to- wit:
Any variety of trout, between
the first day Of septem ber and
the fifteenth day of April follow
ing; any black, grey or Oswego
bass between the first day of
March, and the twenty-ninth day
Of May following; any variety of
pike, muskallonge, croppie ,perch
sunfsh, sturgeon, catfish or any
other variety of fish between the
first day of March and the first
day of May following.
'Sec. Al. Manner of Taking.
No person shall catch, take or
Kill more than twenty-five (25)
fish, except sunfsh, perch, pick.
erel or bullheads in any one day,
nor in any other manner than by
angling for them, with a hook
and line held in the hand, or at.
tached to a rod so held, nor with
more than one line or with more
than one hook attached thereto;
and no person shall have in his
possession any fish caught, taken
Or killed in any of the waters of
this state, except as provided in
this chapter.
"Provided, that pickerel, suck
ers, redhorse, carp and bullheads
may be taken with a spear with
out limit at any time, and artih.
cial lights may be used in so
doing.
"sec. 45. Use of Drugs, Dyna-
mite, Traps, Etc.-No person
shall lay, set, use or prepare any
drug poison, lime, medicated
bait, fish berries, dynamite, or
any other deleterious substance
whatever, or lay, stretch or place
any tip up, snare or net or trot
line or any wire string, rope or
cable of any sort in any Of the
waters of this state with intent
or thereby or Herewith catch,
take or kill any fish.
"Sec. 50. Game and Fish TAX
n>in One Day.-No person shall
wantonly waste or destroy any
Of the birds, animals or fish of
the kinds mentioned in this chap
ter. The catching, taking or
killing Of more than fifteen birds
by any one person in any one
day, or the catching, taking or
killing of more than twentyf five
fish by any one person in any
one day, except fish caught, TAX
en- or killed in the Mississippi
river or international waters
with nets or seines, as by this
chapter permitted shall be
deemed a wanton waste, and de-
struction of all such birds or
flesh caught, taken or killed in