BOARD REGULATIONS
(1) SUBSECTION 103 ANGLING, LEGAL METHODS OF
TAKING FISH
(a) DEFINITIONS
1. Baited Hook - A single shank hook with 1,
2 or 3 points which may be baited with natural or artificial bait or
both.
2. Lure - A man made device
designed to catch only 1 fish at a time, to include a spoon, plug, spinner,
bait harness, tandem hook streamer or lead head jig.
3. Fly - A single pointed hook dressed with
feathers, hair, thread, tinsel, or any similar material wound on or about the
hook to which no hooks, spinners, spoons, or similar devices have been
added.
4. Immediate Control - Such
constant control as would enable the fisherman to respond forthwith to a fish
taking their bait, lure or fly promptly and without any delay.
10 VSA Appendix
Section 103 Angling, legal methods of taking
fish
(b) Whether still fishing, casting, or
trolling in closed trout waters, a person may take fish only by using not more
than two lines over which he or she has immediate control and to each of which
lines is attached not more than one baited hook, or more than three artificial
flies, or more than one lure with or without bait, except that at Seymour Lake
and Little Averill Lake a person may take fish only by using not more than one
line. It is provided, however, that in waters that are not closed trout waters
a person may so take fish by using not more than two lines with not more than 2
baited hooks, 2 lures or 3 flies on each line.
A person fishing by angling shall not take fish through the
ice, from the ice, or from an object supported by the ice.
(c) A person shall not take any fish pursuant
to subsection (b) unless it is hooked in the mouth. Any fish taken under
subsection (b) that is not hooked in the mouth shall be immediately released
pursuant to
10 V.S.A.
Subsection 4602. A fish hooked in any other
part of the body with a hook or hooks manipulated in such a manner as to pierce
and hook the fish other than in the mouth shall be considered to be foul
hooked, and shall be prima facie evidence of foul hooking.
(2) FILLETING FISH
No species of fish that has a length limit restriction shall
be filleted or altered to restrict the determination of length while on any
body of water, except as follows:
If fish are to be consumed or filleted on the water, the
fillets may be removed, but the head, vertebrae, and tail must be retained and
remain intact to determine legal length.
90-63 EFFECTIVE: 01/05/91
