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COMMISSION APPROVES FISHING
REGULATION CHANGES FOR 2008
Removal of trout permit requirement
for youth among changes
October 26, 2007 - The Kansas Wildlife &
Parks Commission has approved a variety of changes in fishing
regulations, effective Jan. 1, 2008. At their public hearing
in Colby Oct. 18th, commissioners took the following actions:
* Removed the requirement for youth 15 and
younger to possess a trout permit to fish in designated trout
waters and, in related action, established a daily creel limit
of 2 trout for youth 15 and younger fishing in designated trout
waters (unless they purchase a trout permit, which allows a daily
trout creel limit of 5);
* Added two locations Willow Lake in Tuttle
Creek State Park and Lake Shawnee in Shawnee County -- to the
list of waters where a trout permit is required to fish from
Oct. 15 through April 15;
* Approved gigging as a legal method for taking
non-sport fish;
* Removed the requirement mandating use of barbless
hooks for paddlefish snagging on the Neosho River;
* Clarified that the regulation governing use of
the tournament bass pass and prescribing weigh-in procedures
for such tournaments applies to black bass (smallmouth, largemouth,
spotted);
* Established minimum weigh-in procedures for all
black bass fishing tournaments featuring weigh-ins, holding them
to the same standards currently required of tournaments in which
participants hold a black bass pass;
* Added diploid (fertile) grass carp to the list
of species illegal to import or possess in Kansas;
* Increased the wiper creel limit from 2 per day
to 5 per day at Coldwater City Lake, Douglas County Lonestar
Lake, John Redmond Reservoir, Leavenworth State Fishing Lake,
Paola's Lake Miola, and Lake Shawnee;
* Established a 20-inch minimum length limit and
1 fish creel limit on brown trout in the Mined Land Wildlife
Area;
* Established a 5-fish creel limit on blue catfish
at Wilson Reservoir;
* Established a 35-inch minimum length limit on
blue catfish at Wilson, Cheney, and El Dorado reservoirs; and
* Clarified boundaries for designated paddlefish
snagging locations at Burlington and Chetopa on the Neosho River,
Marais des Cygnes River below Osawatomie dam, and the Browning
Oxbow Lake of the Missouri River.
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