The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-02-07
OPEN SEASON FOR
FISH AND GAME
PROPOSED LAW WILL LIMIT RAG
LIMIT FOR RABBITS TO
FIVE EACH DAY.
Open Season win Be From Noyem-
Der | to February
Each Year.

II the proposed Dill now under con-
sideratiOn in the legislature becomes
a law the bag limit for either squir-
rels or rabbits will be five each day
| nd the open season from November
| to February 1. Fishing with
| look and line except for large and
! small mouth bass sturgeon and trout
in the Rock and Crawfish rivers in
Jefferson county is allowed all the
year. Following are the more i'm
portant provisions of the BILL the dates
being the open season:
Mink, muskrat, Nov Is to April Is.
No limit
Racoon, skunk, Nov. Is to Feb j.
Five each day.
Squirrels of any variety. Nov to
Feb, l. Five each day
Rabbit, Nov. / to Feb. l. Five each
day.
Wild swan None.
Wild goose, brant, Sept. 20 to Dec.
15. Ten each day.
Wild duck. including American coot
or mudhen, but excepting wood duck.
Sept. 20 to Dec 15 Fifteen each day.
Wood duck, wood cock None.
Plover, snipe, rail, rice hen, Sept.
20 to Dec. Is. Fifteen each day.
Partridge or ruffled grouse, spruce
hen, none until Sept 20, 1919.
Prairie chicken or pinnated grouse,
sharp-tailed grouse, none until Sept.
20, 1919.
Mongolian, Chinese or English phea-
SAINT, Hungarian partridge. None
Quail or bobwhite. None
Crows, English sparrows, black
birds, sharp-shinned hawks, Cooper's
hawks, owls, all the year. No limit
Song birds, and all other wild birds
not specified above. None.
Large and small mouthed black bass
Oswego bass, green bass, yellow bass.
July l to March l. fifteen each day.
length 10 inches
White bass, in the Big Wold river
from Lake Poygan to New London, all
the year. No limit. Length 7 inches.
In all other waters, May 20 to March /.
No limit, inches.
strawberry bass, calico bass, silver
bass, crappie, rock bass, May 80 to
March 1. Thirty each day. inches.
Trout of any variety, except Lake
trout: In the inland waters within
the counties Of Douglas, Bayfield,, Ash
land, Iron, Villas, Burnette, Washburn,
Sawyer, Price, Oneida, Forest, Flor
ence and Marinette, May to Aug. 81.
twenty-five each day. 7 inches.
(b) In all other waters, April Is to
Aug. 81. twenty-five each day. in.
Pike of any variety, May 29 to March
l. Fifteen each day. 13 inches.
Picl1erel, May 20 to March l. Fiji
teen each day. 16 inches.
Muskellunge, May 20 to March l.
Three each day. "a inches.
Sturgeon, and the spawn, eggs and
Try thereof, none.
Catfish, May 20 to March L. Ten
each day. Is inches.
Bullhead: (a} In Dodge county, all
year, 20 lbs. each day. No limit (b)
In all other waters, all the year, no
limit. Length no limit
Perch (a) In counties bordering
on the Mississippi river and in lakes
Winnebago, Butte des Morts and Poy-
gan, Fox river and Wolf river and
tributary streams within Winnebago
county, May 20 to March 1. (b) In all
other waters, all the year, no limit,
Length no limit
Sunfish, roach: (a) In counties bor-
dering on the Mississippi river, May
20 to March /. Fifty each day. Length
no limit. (b) In all other waters, all
the year. Fifty each day. Length no
limit
There shall be no closed season for
hook and line fishing except for large
and small mouthed black bass, stur-
geon and trout, in any Of the follow
ing described waters: In the waters
Of Juneau county, in the waters of
lakes Winnebago in Fond du Lac, Cal
umet and Winnebago counties, in Buff
falO lake Marinette county, in Pucka-
way lake in Marquette and Green
Lake counties, in lake Poygan in Win
-nebago and Waushara counties, in
lakes Winneconne, Big and Little
Butte des Morris in Winnebago county,
in the Fox river in Marquette, Green
LAKE, WduSUdTd anu Wln0eDdSO COun-
ties, in the Wolf river in Winnebago
county and in Waupaca county as far
as the dam at New London, in the
Rock and Crawfsh rivers in Jefferson
county. During the period from March
to May %, both dates inclusive, live
or dead minnows shall not be used for
bait in any of the above waters spe-
cited in Jefferson county
Only buck deer can be hunted dur e
ing the season, November q to Dec
ember 10 and exempted are bucks in
the velvet, or in the red on blue coat,
or with horns less than four inches
long; or does or fawns.
(2) Possession Of ferrets. No per-
son shall have in his possession or
under his control at any time any ferr-
ct unless a permit therefor has been
isued TO him by the state conservation
commission; but such permit shall not
authorize the use of any ferret for
hunting game.