Wash. Admin. Code § 220-300-160 - Definitions-Personal-use fishing
The following definitions apply to personal-use fishing rules in Title 220 WAC:
(1) "Anadromous game
fish" means steelhead, sea-run cutthroat trout, and sea-run Dolly Varden and
bull trout.
(2) "Anti-snagging
rule" means:
(a) Except when fishing with a
buoyant lure (with no weights added to the lure or line) or trolling from a
vessel or floating device, terminal fishing gear is limited to a lure or bait
with one single point hook.
(b)
Only single point hooks measuring not more then 3/4 inch from point to shank
may be used and all hooks must be attached to or below the lure or
bait.
(c) Weights may not be
attached below or less than 12 inches above the lure or bait.
(3) "Bait" means any substance
which attracts fish by scent or flavors. Bait includes any lure which uses
scent or flavoring to attract fish.
(4) "Barbless hook" means a hook on which all
barbs have been deleted when manufactured or filed off or pinched
down.
(5) "Bass" means largemouth
and smallmouth bass.
(6) "Bow and
arrow fishing" means any method of taking, or attempting to take, fish by the
use of an arrow equipped with a barbed head and a line attached, and propelled
by a bow, as in the sport of archery, while the fisher is above the surface of
the water.
(7) "Buoy 10 line" means
a true north-south line projected through Buoy 10 at the mouth of the Columbia
River. "Buoy 10 fishery" means a fishery between a line in the Columbia River
from Tongue Point in Oregon to Rocky Point in Washington and the Buoy 10
line.
(8) "Buoyant lure" means a
lure that floats on the surface of freshwater when no additional weight is
applied to the line or lure, and when not being retrieved by a line.
(9) "Channel Marker 13 line" means a true
north-south line through Grays Harbor Channel Marker 13.
(10) "Char" means bull trout, Dolly Varden,
Eastern brook trout, and lake trout.
(11) "Daily limit" means the maximum number
or pounds of fish, shellfish, or seaweed of the required size of a given
species or aggregate of species which a person may retain in a single
day.
(12) "Fresh" means fish or
shellfish that are refrigerated, iced, salted, or surface glazed.
(13) "Freshwater area" means:
(a) Within any freshwater river, lake, stream
or pond.
(b) On the bank or within
10 yards of any freshwater river, lake, stream or pond.
(c) On or within any boat launch, ramp, or
parking facility associated with any freshwater river, lake, stream or
pond.
(14) "Frozen"
means fish or shellfish that are hard frozen throughout.
(15) "Gaffing" means an effort to take fish
by impaling the fish with a hook attached directly to a pole or other
device.
(16) "Hatchery" when used
to describe the difference between a hatchery fish and a nonhatchery fish,
except salmon, means a fish having a clipped adipose fin or a clipped ventral
fin with a healed scar at the location of the clipped fin. A hatchery salmon is
a salmon having a clipped adipose fin and a healed scar at the location of the
clipped fin, regardless of whether the fish is missing a ventral fin.
(17) "Hook" means one single point, double or
treble hook. A "single point hook" means a hook having only one point. A
"double hook" means a hook having two points on a common shank. A "treble hook"
means a hook having three points on a common shank.
(18) "Hook and line" or "angling" are
identical in meaning and, except as provided in WAC
220-310-110,
are defined as the use of not more than one line with three hooks attached to a
pole held in hand while landing fish, or the use of a hand operated line
without rod or reel, to which may be attached not more than three hooks. When
fishing for bottom fish, "angling" and "jigging" are identical in
meaning.
(19) "In the field or in
transit" means at any place other than at the ordinary residence of the
harvester. An ordinary residence is a residential dwelling where a person
normally lives, with associated features such as address, telephone number,
utility account, etc. A motor home or camper parked at a campsite or a vessel
are not considered to be an ordinary residence.
(20) "Juvenile" means a person under fifteen
year of age.
(21) "Lure" means a
manufactured article constructed of feathers, hair, fiber, wood, metal, glass,
cork, leather, rubber or plastic which does not use scent or flavoring to
attract fish. "Non-buoyant lure" means a lure complete with hooks, swivels or
other attachments, which does not float in freshwater.
(22) "Night closure" means closed to fishing
from one hour after official sunset to one hour before official
sunrise.
(23) "Opening day of
lowland lake season" means the fourth Saturday in April.
(24) "Possession limit" means the number of
daily limits allowed to be retained in the field or in transit.
(25) "Processed" means fish or shellfish
which have been processed by heat for human consumption as kippered, smoked,
boiled, or canned.
(26) "Steelhead
license year limit" means the maximum number of steelhead trout any one angler
may retain from April 1st through the following March 31st.
(27) "Selective gear rules" means terminal
fishing gear is limited to artificial flies with single-point barbless hooks or
lures with single-point barbless hooks and bait is prohibited. Up to three
hooks may be used. Only knotless nets may be used to land fish. In waters under
selective gear rules, fish may be released until the daily limit is
retained.
(28) "Slough" means any
swamp, marsh, bog, pond, side-channel, or backwater connected to a river by
water. Waters called sloughs that are not connected to a river are considered
lakes.
(29) "Snagging" means an
effort to take fish with a hook and line in a manner that the fish does not
take the hook or hooks voluntarily in its mouth.
(30) "Spearing" or "spear fishing" means an
effort to take fish or shellfish by impaling the fish or shellfish on a shaft,
arrow or other device.
(31)
"Stationary gear restriction" means the line and weight and lure or bait must
be moving while in the water. The line and weight and lure or bait may not be
stationary.
(32) "Steelhead" means
sea-run rainbow trout over twenty inches in length.
(33) "Trolling" means a method of fishing
from a vessel or floating device that is underway and under power.
(34) "Unmarked salmon" means a salmon with
intact adipose and ventral fins.
(35) "Trout" means brown trout, cutthroat
trout, golden trout, grayling, rainbow trout (except steelhead), tiger trout,
and, in WAC
220-312-010
through
220-312-060,
salmon from waters designated as "landlocked salmon rules apply."
(36) "Whitefish gear rules" means terminal
fishing gear is restricted to one single-point hook, maximum hook size
three-sixteenths inch point to shank (hook size 14), and bait is allowed. All
species: Release all fish except whitefish.
(37) "Wild" when used to describe the
difference between a hatchery fish and a nonhatchery fish, except salmon, means
a fish with all fins intact.
(38)
"Wild" when used to describe a salmon (Chinook, co-ho, chum, pink or sockeye),
means a salmon with an unclipped adipose fin, regardless of whether the fish is
ventral fin-clipped. A salmon with a clipped adipose fin and a healed scar at
the site of the clipped fin is not a wild salmon.
(39) "Wild cutthroat release" means it is
unlawful to retain any cutthroat trout that does not have a clipped adipose fin
and a healed scar at the location of the clipped fin.
(40) "Wild steelhead release" means it is
unlawful to retain any steelhead that does not have a clipped adipose or
ventral fin and a healed scar at the location of the clipped fin.
(41) "Shoreline fishing" or "shore fishing"
means fishing from shore or a structure affixed to the shore or by wading in
the water.
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