10 FISH LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO RIVER STATES. 
: Ill. TIME, PLACE, AND MANNER, OF CAPTURE. 
Arkansas.—Bag limit on ‘‘trout,’’ black bass, striped bass, rock bass, and crappie 
is 25 fish (55). Explosives and drugs shall not be used to take or injure fish (45, 46). 
Shooting fish is forbidden (47). Nets may be used only as follows: Hoop nets with- 
out wings, or with wings not over 50 feet long, the mesh of net and wings to be at 
least 3 inches square; a minnow seine not exceeding 16 feet in length used by a person 
licensed to fish with artificial bait; a seine not more than 60 feet long with mesh at 
least 14 inches square, used by picnic parties to catch fish for their own use, June 15 
to September 1 (49). The fish and game commission may issue permits for taking 
with nets fish for distribution and propagation in the State (50). Except with line 
and not over three hooks, fish shall not be taken during the spawning season; until 
otherwise determined by the commission this is declared to be March 15 to May 15 
(48, 53, 54). It is unlawful to take fish from an inclosed or artificial pond which has 
been posted by the owner. (Act approved Feb. 16, 1875. 
Ilinois.—No fish may be taken within 100 feet of any dam (25). A seine not over 
20 feet long with mesh not less than } of an inch square may be used to take minnows 
for bait only (37). Hoop, fyke, dip nets, or baskets with mesh not less than 14 inches 
square, may be used July 1 to April 15 and seine with same mesh September 1 to 
April 15, except for black bass, pickerel, pike perch, whitefish, trout, cisco, and 
yellow perch (35). Gill and pound nets with mesh not less than 2} inches square 
may be used for whitefish and lake trout December 1 to November 1 (36). Gill, 
dip, and pound nets with mesh not less than 1} inches square may be used for cisco, 
or with mesh not less than 17; inches square for yellow perch, provided not over 10 
per cent of catch at any lift consists of lake trout of a less weight than 14 pounds 
dressed each, and such lake trout may be sold only locally and not shipped (36). 
Maximum lengths for nets are: Hoop, fyke, or pound 200 yards and seine 1,000 yards; 
they shall not obstruct more than half the width of a watercourse (39). 
The commission may set aside fish preserves in which fishing with other devices 
than hooks and lines, or minnow seine for bait, may be practiced only by special 
permit (25, 37). 
Drugs, explosives, firearms, artificial lights, snare spears, gig graines, and trammel 
nets shall not be used to catch fish (40, 40b). 
It is unlawful to fish in private ponds without the owner’s consent (40b). 
Persons authorized by the United States may take fish for propagation or distri- 
bution and may destroy gizzard shad and gar; the University of Illinois and its agents 
may take fish for scientific purposes (38, 51). 
Mussel fishing may be practiced commercially with one boat only or an additional 
boat for towing, and with only two crowfoot bars not over 16 feet long each, and only 
one dredge not over 3 feet long; such fishing is permitted from only April 15 to No- 
vember 30 (55). The commission may close areas to mussel fishing for periods not 
exceeding five years (57). 
Frogs over one-fourth pound shall not be taken in May or June (34). 
Structures excluding daylight or used for concealment in ice fishing are prohibited 
40a). 
: Weaiana. Shallow waters designated by the commissioner of fisheries as breeding 
grounds shall not be fished between March 20 and July 1 (2533a). Closed season for 
trout (except in boundary waters) is September 1 to April 1, and trout waters (except 
boundary waters) may be closed for three years by the commission. (1917, ch. 42.) 
Bag limits (not applicable to private ponds) are 50 sunfish or crappie, and 12 bass, 
or 20 bass in one boat (2543), or 20 trout, possibly excepting trout from boundary 
waters. (1917, ch. 42.) It is unlawful to fish in private ponds without the owner’s 
permission, or to enter upon inclosed land for the purpose of setting a trot line 
(2549-2551). 
In interior waters (and as to net, seine, or traps within 100 yards of Indiana tribu- 
taries to boundary rivers) the following kinds of tackle are prohibited: Trot line with 
hooks smaller than five-sixteenths of an inch from point to shank, hook and line 
attached to floating device, gig, spear, seine, net, or trap of any kind. (2533b, as 
amended by 1915, chs. 16 and° 2541.) Exceptions are made in favor of owners of 
private ponds, and persons catching minnows for bait in minnow traps and minnow 
seines not more than 12 feet long, 4 feet deep, “and the meshes of which shall not be 
larger than one-fourth of an inch” (2532, 2541); but minnows may not be taken in 
State breeding grounds for trout. (1917, ch. 42.) Except in boundary waters trout 
may be caught by hook and line only. (1917, ch. 42.) Fish other than carp, gar, 
bowfin, and sucker shall not be shocked by electricity nor caught by unaided hand 
or gaff (2548a). Fish shall not be shot (2539), nor taken or injured by means of 
stupifying or poisonous substances (2541, 2547) or explosives (2548). 
