Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-01
MANY VIOLATING
NEW FISHING LAW
CAREFUL READING OF FOL
LOWING EXTRACTS A GUIDE.
Specifies AS to What Game Fish
Archaic for Fishing With
Hook ard Line is May 25th-
Over a Month Off Yet-ShOuld
Be Preserved.

Many fishermen in and about Wat
ertown are not thoroughly acquainted
with the state law passed by The last
ley ielature to fishing IN the Rock
river and many anxious Isaac Waltons
are already spending hours each day
hunting the members of the finny
tribe The following is an extract
from the state laws which refers to
the fishing in Rock River and the ad
jacent waters.
SO. Classification of Fish. Section
4560a-4 (ch. 1913, 1900. For TIE
purpose of constituting and enforcing
the laws of this state, relating to the
protection, taking and having in poss
ession of fish, the following named
fish are hereafter to be known and
classed as "game fish,: Any variety
of brook trout, small mouth black
bass, large mouth black bass. Oswego
bass, Green bass, yellow bass, silver
bass, white bass, rock bass. pike,
muskaIlonge, sturgeon and pickaral.
All fish not classed as ''game fish"
are hereafter to be known and classed
as trough fish. -
q 80. Laws relating to the weight
and size of pike, fiddler catfish, and
black bass, and providing penalties
for catching, killing or being in poss-
esson of such fish under certain
weight and size. Section 456Oa-5, Oh.
1872, L. 1907. Any person who shall
take, catch or kill or have in his poss-
ession. pike of any variety of less
than one pound, round or undressed
weight, any fiddler catfish, of less
than Que and one-half pounds, round
or undressed weight, or less than
one pound dressed weight, or any
black bass of length less than ten
inches, shall be guilty of misde-
meanor, and on conviction thereof
shall be punished by fine of not
lass than ten dollars nor more than
fifty dollars, or by imprisonment In
the county Jail not more than sixty
days, or by both such fine and i'm
prisonmenU in the discretion of the
court.
81. Black bass, Oswego bass; clos
ed season for in certain waters-Num-
Der and size of bass which may be
caught-Quality Of bullheads which
may be caught in Fox Lake and Beav
Ell Dam ke-Transportation and
selling game fish prohibited between
certain dates-Penaltles. Sec. 4560a
IL, CHI. 255. l.. 1907. 1t shall be
unlawful and is hereby prohibited
to take. catch or kill, ia any manner
or by any device whatever, any large
or small mouth bass, Oswego bass,
on yellow bass, in any of the waters
of this state, between the first day of
March and the tenth day Of June next
succeeding.
(a) In Big Green lake. in Green
Lake county, closed season for bass
of any variety shall be from the first
day of March to the first day uf July
next succeeding;
(b) In DEVILS Lake in Sank coun-
ty the closed season for all fish shall
be from the fifteenth day of December
to the fifteenth day of June next
succeeding;
(c) In Mirror Lake and Dell Greek
in Sank county, the closed season for
all fish shall be from the fifteenth
day of December until the fifteenth
day of June next succeeding;
I'D IN Lake de Neveu in Fond du
Lac county, the closed season for
all fish, except carp shall be from
the first day of September to the
tenth day of June next succeeding;
(e) In lakes Winnebago, Winnie
come, Butte des Morris. Little Butte
des Morris. Poygan and those parts
of the Fox end Wolf rivers, which
connect said lakes. the Big Woff river
up to the dam at Shawano there shall
be no closed season except for black
bass. Oswego bass, yellow bass and
sturgeon, and for the above enumerat-
ed fish the closed season provided tor
in the first paragraph of this act shall
apply:
f) In all inland waters except as
herein specified, the closed season for
game fish, except bass and brook trout
of any variety, shall be from the
first day of March to the twenty-ffth
day of May next succeeding; in Beav-
er Dam lake or pond, Dodge county,
the closed season for pickeral shall
be from the first of March to the tenth
of May. next succeeding.
(g) 1t shall be unlawful to have
over fifteen of any black bass, Oswego
bass or yellow bass in possession at
any one time or take or retain any of
the above enumerated bass of length
les than eight inches: said undersiz-
ed bass when so taken shall be re-
turned without injury to the waters
where taken;*
(h) 1t shall be unlawful and is here
by prohibited to have in POSSESSION or
under control in any one day, more
than twenty-five pounds of bull heads
taken from Beaver Dam lake or pond
Or Fox Lake in Dodge county;
III 1t shall be unlawful and is
hereby prohibited to sell. offer tor