Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 76 - WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES › Part VII - Fish and Other Aquatic Life › Chapter 1 - Freshwater Sports and Commercial Fishing › Section VII-116 - Freshwater Recreational Yo-Yos, Trigger Devices, Trotlines, Limb Lines, Jugs, and all Passive Fishing Devices Containing a Hook or Hooks

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The Wildlife and
				Fisheries Commission hereby adopts the following regulations applicable to the
				use of freshwater recreational yo-yos, trigger devices, trotlines, limb lines,
				jugs, and all other passive fishing devices containing a hook or hooks.
1. No more than 50 yo-yos, or trigger
				devices, limb lines, or floating devices containing a hook or hooks shall be
				allowed per person.
2. At any given
				time, no person shall set more than 150 hooks on all trotlines,
				combined.
3. Each yo-yo, trigger
				device, trotline, limb line, jug, or other passive fishing device containing a
				hook or hooks shall be clearly tagged with the name, telephone number, and
				fishing license number of the owner or user. Information must be attached with
				a waterproof tag or written directly on the device in indelible ink.
4. Each yo-yo, trigger device, trotline, limb
				line, jug, or other passive fishing device containing a hook or hooks shall be
				rebaited at least once every 24 hours, and all fish and any other animal
				caught, entangled, ensnared, or hooked, shall be immediately removed from the
				device.
5. Except for those devices
				that are attached to a privately owned pier, boathouse, seawall, or dock, when
				not being used in accordance with the provisions of this Paragraph, each yo-yo,
				trigger device, trotline, limb line, jug, or other passive fishing device
				containing a hook or hooks shall be removed from the waterbody immediately by
				the owner or user.
6. Where allowed
				and when not in use, objects sourced from another location used to anchor
				yo-yos, trigger devices, trotlines, limb lines, jugs, or other passive fishing
				devices containing a hook or hooks, which are driven into or attached to the
				lake bottom, a stump, tree, or the shoreline must be removed from the waterbody
				along with the passive devices by the user.
7. No driven or attached objects used to
				attach yo-yos, trigger devices, trotlines, limb lines, jugs, or other passive
				fishing devices containing a hook or hooks shall be larger than two inches by
				two inches or two inches in diameter.
8. No metal object which is driven into or
				attached to the lake bottom, a stump, tree, or the shoreline shall be used to
				anchor a yo-yo trigger device, trotline, limb line, jug, or other passive
				fishing device containing a hook or hooks, except for a metal object used
				strictly in the construction of a pier, boathouse, seawall, dock, or a
				retrievable anchor not attached to the bottom.
9. In Black Lake, Clear Lake and Prairie Lake
				(Natchitoches Parish), Caddo Lake (Caddo Parish), Chicot Lake (Evangeline
				Parish), D'Arbonne Lake (Union Parish), Lake St. Joseph (Tensas Parish), and
				Lake Bruin, including the portion known as Brushy Lake (Tensas Parish),
				Louisiana, except for an object used strictly in the construction of a pier,
				boathouse, seawall, or dock, no object which is driven into the lake bottom, a
				stump, tree, or the shoreline shall be used to anchor a yo-yo or trigger
				device.
10. All trotlines shall
				have a cotton leader on each end of the trotline.