The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-03-25
MANY CHANGES MADE
IN FISH AND GAME LAW
SPoRTSMEN SHOULD CAREFUL
LY READ SUMMARY OF LAW
ON BACK OF LICENSE.

be issued Dy the department dDouL
April /. On the backs of the licenses
will appear brief summary OF the
fish and game laws as amended by the
thirteenth legislature. The changes
are numerous. A complete summary
follows;
Licenses Required.
Lcenses-Female residents Of Idaho.
children under II and civil war veter-
ans are not required to have licenses.
All licenses expire March 81 next fol-
lowing the date of issue.
Fishing Regulations.
Fish-Open season. Fish may be
caught at any time of the year with
hook and line, except trout, provided.
however, that it shall be unlawful to
take trout during the month of April
in any waters of the state except lakes
and navigable. In Elk creek and its
tributaries in Clearwater county, sea-
son closed between August 20 and Oc-
tober TO- Salmon may be seined in
Snake river from Lewiston to Sho-
shone Falls, and up Clearwater river
as far as meandered Bear lake trout
may be seined, except during April and
May, but not within 400 yards Of the
mouth of any stream flowing into said
Bear lake. Salmon not less than four
inches in length may be speared or
caught on a snag hook.
Upland Birds.
Birds-Open. season: Sage hen and
turtle dove, July Is to December /;
sage hen and turtle dove (Fremont
county only August Is to December /;
quail November to December l Eek
cept in Lemhi, Cassia, Twin Falls, On
eida, Bear Lake, Bannock, Power and
Franklin counties, no open season.;
partridge, pheasant or grouse, August
Is to December /; partridge, pheasant
or grouse (north of Salmon river on
ly) September / to December /; it Is
unlawful to kill any game bird or wa
ter fowl within the limit Of the boun-
Diary of the Lewiston Orchard game
preserve.
Game Animals.
Big Game-Open season: Male elk
in Fremont, Bonneville, Teton and
Bingham, September / to December
81. No open season in balance of the
state Deer: open season in Kootenai,
Shoshone, Latah, Nez Perez Clearwa-
ter and Idaho, September 20 to Decem-
Der 20, balance of state except game
preserves, September l to December /.
Mountain Goat-No open season in
Cassia, Twin Falls Oneida, Power,
Franklin, Bear Lake, Bannock coun-
ties, and game preserves, balance of
state, September 1 to December l. No
/ open season on mountain sheep.
Daily Bag Limits.
Bag Limit-Birds: Twelve in any
one day of sage hen, pheasant, part
ridge or grouse; IS quail "a doves, "a
ducks, "a snipe, "a plover geese. 1t
is unlawful for any person to kill
bag of more than "a birds in any one
day or to have in his possession more
than "a birds of any kind at any one
time.
! Big Game-Limit: One elk, 2 deer,
mountain goat. 1t is unlawful to pur-
sue, hunt, kill or capture any COW elk,
yearling elk, female or doe deer, spot
ted fawn or yearling deer or mountain
sheep.
Fishing Restrictions.
1t Is Unlawful-To take fish in any
other manner or with any other con-
trivance, except hook and line, other
than specified above, or to use drugs
or explosives To catch trout or bass
less than inches in length; to catch
more than 20 pounds of trout, bass,
catfish grayling or sunfsh in any one
day, or to have more than 30 pounds
of same in possession at any time; to
sell any Of the above species except
Bear Lake trout; to fish through Ice
except in Bear lake, or for white fish
in Lake Pend d'Oreille to fish within
300 feet of a fish ladder; to wantonly
waste fish or game; to ship or accept
for shipment any game without a per-
init; to snare or trap any protected
bird or animal; to destroy nest eggs.
or modest birds, during breeding sea
son; to kill Chinese, English or Mon
golian pheasants, prairie chickens, pin
mated grouse, or swan at any time; to
Kill or capture any moose, caribou, an
telope or beaver at any time of the
year; to kill big game at any deer lick.
Migratory Bird Law.
Regulations-(S Subject to change)-
Closed seasons: Water fowl, between
January 16 and November 1, inclu-
sive black breasted and golden plover.
jack snipe or Wilson snipe and great
err or lesser yellow legs, December 16
to August 81, Inclusive; rails, coots.
gallinules, December / and August 81,
inclusive; woodcock, December 1 and
September 80, inclusive. Five year
closed season on band tailed pigeons.
little brown, sandhill and whooping
cranes, swans, curlew and all shore
birds except those above mentioned.
Daily closed season on all migratory
game birds from sunset to sunrise.
continuous closed season on nipratorv