Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 57 - Kenai River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 57.121 - Special provisions and localized additions and exceptions to the seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for the Lower Section of the Kenai River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified by an emergency order issued
				  under
				  AS
				  16.05.060, the following are the special
				  provisions and localized exceptions to the general seasons, bag, possession,
				  and size limits, and methods and means set out in
				  5 AAC 57.120 and 5 AAC 75 for the Lower Section of the
				  Kenai River Drainage Area:
(1) sport
				fishing gear restrictions:
(A) from January 1
				- June 30, in the Kenai River, and from July 1 - July 31, in the Kenai River
				from an ADF&G regulatory marker located approximately 300 yards downstream
				from the mouth of Slikok Creek upstream to an ADF&G regulatory marker
				located at the outlet of Skilak Lake, only one unbaited, single-hook,
				artificial lure may be used;
(B)
				from July 1 - July 31, in the Kenai River from its mouth upstream to an
				ADF&G regulatory marker located approximately 300 yards downstream from the
				mouth of Slikok Creek, only one single hook may be used;
(C) from September 1 - December 31, in the
				Kenai River from the mouth of the Upper Killey River upstream to an ADF&G
				regulatory marker located at the outlet of Skilak Lake, only one unbaited,
				single-hook, artificial LURES may be used;
(D) from December 1 - December 31, in the
				Kenai River from its mouth upstream to an ADF&G regulatory marker located
				at the outlet of Skilak Lake, only unbaited, artificial lures may be
				used;
(E) from May 1 - July 31, in
				the portion of the Kenai River from ADF& G regulatory markers located
				approximately 100 yards downstream of the mouth of the Moose River, upstream to
				ADF& G regulatory markers located approximately 100 yards upstream of the
				mouth of the Moose River, and the Moose River from its confluence with the
				Kenai River upstream to the upstream edge of the Sterling Highway Bridge. only
				one unbaited, siugle-hook, artificial fly may be used;
(F) from May 1 - July 31, in the following
				waters only one unbaited, single-hook, artificial fly may be used:
(i) that portion of the Kenai River from an
				ADF&G regulatory marker located approximately 300 yards downstream from the
				mouth of Slikok Creek, upstream to an ADF&G regulatory marker located
				approximately 300 yards upstream from the mouth of Slikok Creek;
(ii) that portion of the Kenai River from an
				ADF&G regulatory marker located approximately one mile downstream from the
				mouth of Funny River, upstream to an ADF&G regulatory marker located
				approximately 200 yards upstream from the mouth of the Funny
				River;
(G) from May 1 -
				July 31, that portion of the Kenai River from an ADF&G regulatory marker
				located approximately three-quarters of a mile downstream from the mouth of the
				Lower Killey River, upstream to an ADF&G regulatory marker located
				approximately one mile upstream from the mouth of the Lower Killey River, only
				one unbaited, single-hook, artificial fly may be used;
(H) repealed 5/18/2014;
(I) repealed 6/8/2017;
(J) repealed 6/8/2017;
(K) from January 1- December 31 in the Kenai
				River from an ADF&G regulatory marker approximately 100 yards below the
				Moose River Confluence upstream to an ADF&G regulatory marker located at
				the outlet of Skilak Lake, only one unbaked, single-hook, artificial lure may
				be used;
(L) in all tributaries of
				the Lower Section, only one unbaited, single-hook, the artificial lure, with a
				gap between the point and shank of three-eighths inch or less, may be
				used;