The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-05-02
FISHING SEASON
WILL OPEN MAY Is
Good Sportsmanship Means a
Careful Observance of the
Law. Carry License.

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the opportunity of listing few of the
laws that conservationism and good
craftsmanship dictate for the preser-
walton of this great sport in Mime
sofa. 1t might be we'll for those in
clined to spend some time fishing this
season to check up on the laws listed.
1t is Unlawful
To fish without license or identi-
fication card if 81 years of age or over
if a resident of Minnesota.
To fish without license if 16 years
of age or over if a nonresident.
To fish with more than one line, or
more than one bait.
To take fish by angling through
the ice in the night time by aid of
artificial light. (This includes auto
mobile headlights and spot ights.)
To fish withinsforty feet of any
fishway.
To take fish in nets except under
licensed privileges.
To deposit sawdust or refuse in
waters where fish abound.
To buy or sell black bass, trout,
muskellunge, crappies, sand-pike,
wall-eyed pike, pickerel, sunfish, rock
bass or whitefish.
To ship or transport in any man.
ner bass or any species outside the
state of Minnesota. Federal statute.)
To take or possess at any time, rock
| or lake sturgeon, shovelnose or hack
| leback sturgeon, spoonbill or paddle
fish.
To sell fish caught in waters lying
within a county having population
of 100000 or over.
To take fish in any other manner
than by angling with hook and line,
except that pickerel, sucker, redhorse,
buffalo fish, whitefish, dogfish, ell
pout, garfish, carp, sheephead, cat
fish, and bullheads, bay be speared
during the open season provided
therefor.
To take fish from public waters
designated as natural spawning beds
if same is posted.
To have in possession, fish nets,
except minnow nets, landing nets and
dip nets and all nets held in stock
for sale by dealers, unless tagged and
licensed by the Commissioner, nets in
possession of licensed commercial
fishermen excepted.
NONRESIDENT Angling License, So;
sold by Commissioner and his agents
outside the state, By county auditors
and their agents inside the state.
Angling licenses for residents of
the state, by the county auditor of
the county in which the applicant re-
sides, or by any agent of such audi
tor.
Angling licenses for non-residents
of the state, by the commissioner or
any agent of the commissioner out
side the state, or by any county audi
tor of the state, or his agent.
Carp, dogfish, redhorse, sheephead,
catfish, suckers, ellpout, garfish,
bullheads, whitefish and buffalofish
may be taken by spearing with the
aid of artificial lights in streams
only, between April Goth and June 1st;
and carp, dogfish, suckers, redhorse
and garfish may be so taken in in
land waters from March goth to April
goth, and in interstate waters from
September 18th to November 18th.
Do not use carp or game minnows
Except perch) for bait or place carp
in public waters of this state.
! The sale or transportation of live
minnows from other states is pro-
hibited for any purpose.
Frogs may not be shipped outside
the state for any purpose.
Black bass, striped bass, silver grey
bass, yellow bass or wall-eyed pike,
| 8 in one day; muskellunge, in one
day; trout Except lake trout), crap
pies. pickerel, sand pike, sunfish, rock
bass, Is in one day; lake trout and
salmon, 10 in one day; total mixed
varieties, Is in one day.
Wall-eyed pike, 16 in possession;
black bass, striped bass, silver grey
bass, yellow bass, lake trout and sal
mon, Is in possession; crappies, pick
erel, sand pike, sunfish, rock bass, %
in possession or 20 pounds thereof.
% fish in the aggregate of all kinds.
Allowed during open season, except
that sale of brook trout, whitefish,
crappies, sand pike, sunfish. rock
bass, lake trout, salmon, muskellunge,
and bass is prohibited Sale of wall
eyed pike and pickerel, except from
waters opened by the commissioner
is unlawful. Sale of other fish pro-
hibited at discretion of commissioner
Pike and pickerel, fourteen inches
in length; black bass, 10 inches; crap
pies, seven inches; whitefish, sixteen
inches; sand-pike or saugers, IL in
ches; trout, all varieties and salmon
no size limit; none to be returned tt
water. Rock bass, six inches, sunfish
five inches; muskellunge, thirty in
ches; fish to be measured from tiI
or nose to fork of the tail.