Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-04-09
FISH AND GAME
LICENSES READY
Big Demand for Them from Sportsmen
from All Parts of the State
of Idaho
TROUT SEASON OPENS MAY |
Brief Summary Of the Law a. Il
Affects This Section
TROUT SEASON OPENS MAY |

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ment is busily engaged now send
ing out the new licenses over the
state for sale and distribution
among the sportsmen.
There is heavy demand for the
licenses in all parts of Idaho indi-
eating that sportmen propose to
whip the streams of the state just
as soon as the season opens. The
closed season on trout which
started April 1st, will keep fishing
down to the minimum. April is
the spawning season for trout and
for that reason protection is given
them.
A brief summary of the fish and
game laws as affecting this part of
the state is as follows:
Fish-Open season: Fish may
be caught at any time of the year
with hook and line except trout,
but it is unlawful to take trout
during April in any waters of the
state except lakes and navigable
streams. Salmon not less than
four inches in length may be
speared or caught on a snag hook
Birds - Open season. Turtle
dove, July Is to Dec. l; quail
Nov. to Dec. l; partridge, pleas
ant or grouse, Sept. l to Dec. l.
Big game-Open season: Male
elk, no open season; deer, Sept. l
to Dec. /.
Mountain goat - Open season
Sept. 1 to Dec. l. No open season
on mountain sheep.
Bag limit-Birds: Twelve in any
one day of sage hen, pheasant,
partridge or grouse; Is quail, "a
doves, "a doves, "a snipe, "a plov-
er, geese. 1t is unlawful for any
person to kill bag of more thar
"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. two
deer, one mountain goat. 1t is I'm
lawful to pursue, hunt, kill or cap
ture any COW elk, yearling elk
female or doe deer, spotted fawr
or yearling deer or mountain sheep
1t is unlawful to take fish in any
other manner or with any othel
contrivance, except hook and line
other than specified above, or tC
use drugs or explosives. To catci
trout or bass less than four inche,
in length; to catch more than *
pounds of trout, bass, catfish, gray
ling or sun6sh in any one day, OF
to have more than 80 pounds o
same in possession at any time; tC
sell any of the above species excep
Bear Lake trout; to fish through
ice except for white fish in LAX,
Pend d Oreille; to fish within 3O(
feet of a fish ladder; to wantonly
waste fish or game; to ship or &C
cept for shipment any game with
out permit; to snare or trap any
protected bird or animal; to destroy
nest eggs, or modest eggs during
breeding season; to kill Chinese
English or Monaghan pheasants
prairie chickens, pinnated grouse
or swan, at any time; to kill OF
capture any moose, caribou, ante
lope or beaver at any time; to xii
big game at any deer lick.
Migratory bird law-Regulation,
subject to change Closed seasons
Water fowl, between Jan. 10 anc
Nov. l, inclusive; black breasted
and golden power, jack snipe OF
Wilson snipe, and greater or lesst
yellow legs, Dec. 10 to Aug. 81
inclusive; rails, coets. gallinules
Dec. to Aug. 81, inclusive; wood
cock, Dec. l to Sept. 80, inclusive
Five-year closed season On bane