The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-07-18
new SEASONS
/. IN GAME Law
N0WIN EFFECT
Season For Wild Ducks September
TO December 10 and Rabbit
Season November / to
January /.

The new game law now in effect in
Wisconsin contains several changes
from the old law. No person shall
hunt any wild mammal or bird at any
time other than the open season there
for nor in the open season in excess
of the number designated opposite
each variety or each locality, respect
lively, in the column headed bag Linn
it," nor wild birds of more than one
variety except a mixed bag limit Of
twenty each day in the open season,
but containing not more than the bag
limit of any one variety. Wild ducks
and American coots or mudhens shall
be deemed, collectively, as one vari-
ety. Fish measurements shall be taken
from the tip of the nose in a straight
line to the end of the tail. The open
season for game and fish is given below
followed by the bag limit.
Moose, elk. No open season.
Deer-any deer in the velvet, or in
red or blue coat, in any county. Open
season none.
Any deer in counties where allowed,
Nov 81 to Nov. 80. One each year.
Bear-Nov 10 to Dec. l. No limit.
Beaver, otter. None.
Beaver in Price, Rusk and Sawyer
counties as stipulated in subsection co.
of sec 1883, Dec. 1 to Dec 81, 1917 and
1918 No limit
Fisher, marten, mink, skunk, Nov. Is
to Feb. 1. No limit.
Muskrat-in the counties Of Polk,
Barron, Rusk, Price, Lincoln, Lang
lade, Forest, Marinette, Florence, Iron,
Oneida, Villas, Ashland, Washburn,
ISawyer, Burnett, Douglas, Bayfield,,
Oct. Is to April 20. In any other place,
Oct % to April 10. No limit
Racoon, Oct. Is to Jan. 1. Five each
day.
Squirrels Of any variety, Oct. Is to
Jan. /. Five each day. In Dodge, Ke-
Inosha, Racine, Waukesha, Washington,
Ozaukee, Milwaukee counties. None.
Rabbit - in Columbia, Crawford,
Door, Grant, Iowa, Jackson, Juneau,
Monroe, Outagamie, Pierce, Polk, Rich
land, Rusk, Sank, Sawyer Sheboygan,
and Winnebago counties, all year. No
limit In Dane county, Oct. to March
IL. No limit. In Dodge, Jefferson, Ke-
lnosha, Ozaukee, Racine, Walworth,
Washington and Waukesha counties,
Nov. 1 to Jan. 1. Five each day. In
Clark, Green and Wood counties, Oct.
Is to Feb. 1. Ten each day. In any
Wild swan. None.
Wild goose, brant, Sept to Dec.
20. Ten each day.
Wild duck, including American coot
or mudhen, but excepting wood duck,
Sept. to Dec. 10. Fifteen each day.
Wood duck, wood cock. None.
Plover, snipe, rail, rice hen, Sept Z
to Dec 20. Fifteen each day.
Partridge or ruffled grouse, spruce
then, none until Oct to Nov. 1919.
Five each day.
Prairie chicken or pinnated grouse,
sharptailed grouse, none until Sept. z
to Oct. /, 1919. Five each day.
Monaghan, Chinese Or English phea-
sant, Hungarian partridge None
Quail Or bobwhite. None.
! Grow, English sparrows, blackbirds,
sharp Skinned hawks, Cooper's hawks,
great horned owls, all year. No limit
Song birds and all other wild birds
not specified above. None.
i r.. Closed Season. -
A close season is established for
each variety, Of fish listed in the fol-
lowing table, extending during all the
time in each year except the period
embraced within the dates, both inclu-
sive, set opposite the name of each
variety Of each locality, respectively,
in the column headed "Open Season"
and, except as expressly provided in
this chapter, no person shall take, cap
ture, or kill fish of any such variety
with hook and line at any time other
than the open season therefor, nor in
the open season in excess OF the guam
tity; or under the minimum length for
each fish, designated opposite each va
riety or each locality, respectively, in
the columns headed bag Limit" Such
measurement of length shall be taken
in straight line from the tip of the
nose to the utmost end of the tail fin
Large and small mouthed black bass,
lOswego bass, green bass, and yellow
bass, in Big Green lake, Green Lake
county July 1 to March 1. Ten each
day. 10 inches.
In all other waters large and small
mouthed black bass, June Is to March
1. Ten each day. 10 inches.
In all other waters Oswego bass,
green bass, and yellow bass, May 20
to March 1. Ten each day. 10 inches
White basin the Big Wolf river
from Lake Poygan to New London, all
the year. No limit inches. In all
other waters, May 20 to March l. No
limit. inches.
Strawberry bass, calico bass, silver
bass, crappie, rock bass. All year. No
limit
Rock basin Green Lake county,
all year. In all other inland and out
lying waters, May 20 to March 1. Thir-
ty each day. 6 inches.
Trout of any variety, except lake
trout, in all waters, May l to Aug. 81
Thirty-five each day. inches.
Pike of any variety, May 20 to March
L. Ten each day. Ii inches.
II Pickerel, May 20 to March l. Fiji
teen each day. 16 inches.
Muskellunge, May 20 to March l.
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