534 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Game Laws in Brief 
The First Complete Game Laws (in brief form) 
thus far Published 
in any Magazine 
MONTANA. 
J. L. DeHart, State Game Warden. 
Big Game Birds.—Any person who shall, between Dec. i of any year and Oct. i 
of the following year wound or kill any deer, or who in the open season of any 
calendar year kills more than three deer, only one of which shall be a doe, shall be 
punished. Any person who wilfully kills any moose, bison, buffalo, caribou, ante¬ 
lope, female sheep, or beaver, shall be punished. Any person who wilfully kills 
any quail, Chinese pheasants, Hungarian pheasants or turtle doves, shall be punished. 
Any person who between the ist day of December and the ist day of October 
following, wilfully kills any mountain sheep or mountain goat, or who in a 
single open season shall kill more than one elk, one mountain sheep of one full 
grown mountain goat (males) shall be punished. Any person who hunts with dogs 
any of the animals mentioned above shall be punishable. Any person who between 
the ist day of November and the ist day of October following, wilfully shoots any 
grouse, prairie chicken, fool hen, sage hen, pheasant or partridge, or who during 
the open season, shoots more than five grouse, or prairie chickens, or sage hens, or 
fool hens, or pheasants, or partridges, in any one day, shall be punished. Any person 
who shall between the 16th day of December and the ist day of September wilfully 
shoot any wild geese, wild ducks, brant, or shall during the open season shoot more 
than twenty wild ducks in any one day, shall be punished. 
Elk.—Closed season until Oct. i, 1918. Except in counties of Sweetgrass, Park, 
Gallatin, Madison, Teton, Flathead, and those portions of Powell and Missoula 
counties drained by South Fork of Flathead and Swan rivers, respectively, Beaver¬ 
head county east of Oregon Short Line Railroad between Willis and Armstead, and 
Beaverhead county south of Pittsburg and Gilmore Railroad, open Oct. 1 to Dec. 1. 
Fish.—May be taken or caught with pole, hook and line. Any person taking or 
catching fish with a hook baited with any poisonous substance, or by means of 
dams, fish-traps, grab hooks, seines or similar means, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 
Seines may be used (not less than 2^2 inch mesh), in Ashley Lake, Flathead Lake, 
'Whitefish Lake, Swan Lake, Dicky Lake, Smith Lake and the Upper and Lower 
■Stillwater Lakes in Flathead County, and Thompson Lake, Loon Lake, McGregor 
Lake in Lincoln County, and in the Poudera River & Clark’s Fork of the Colum¬ 
bia. All fish so taken by seine, except bull-trout, char, or Dolly Varden trout, 
suckers, German carp, Lake Superior whitefish and squaw fish, shall be returned 
to the water uninjured. Any person desiring to use a net or seine for catching 
fish, not designated as “Game Fish,” in any of the above waters must make 
application to 'the State Game Warden for a license so to do, the fee for which is $5. 
Licenses.—Every person who 'is a bona fide resident who desires to hunt and who 
desires to take any fish must obtain a license [fee $1]; and any person who is not 
a citizen of the United States and who has not declared his intention to become 
such citizen, whether a bona fide resident of the State or not, to take any fish, 
must first obtain a license [fee $5]. And every person who is not a citizen of the 
United States and who has not declared his intention to become such citizen, 
whether a bona fide resident of the State or not, who desires to hunt and fish 
must first obtain a license therefor of the State game and fish warden. [Fee, $30 
for all game and fish.] Every person who is not a bona fide resident of this State 
and who desires to hunt or fish must first obtain a license therefor of the State 
game and fish warden or a deputy game and fish warden. [Fee, $25 for all game 
and fishing; $10 for feathered game and fishing.] Fishing license, only $2. All 
licenses expire April 30. 
License to Guide.—No person shall engage in the business of guid ng as t'he 
term is commonly understood, without first having procured from the State game 
and fish warden, a guide’s license. Fee, $10. Must be a bona fide citizen of 
Montana and of good moral character. 
Shipments of Game.—It is unlawful for any person to ship or take out of the 
State any of the birds or game animals, or any part thereof, except as herein pro¬ 
vided for. Any resident who desires to ship out of the State any birds or animals 
during the open season shall first procure a permit from the State game and fish 
warden. Any resident or non-resident of this State who has procured a hunter’s 
license, and who desires 'to ship out of the State any birds or animals during the 
open season must obtain a shipping permit from the State Game and Fish Warden’s 
Office at Flelena, Montana, and shall present same to the shipping agent, accom¬ 
panied with his license, with the consignment of game to be shipped, provided that 
no one person shall ship in one year more game than it is lawful for one person 
to kill in a single open season. [Fee for permit 50 cents.] It shall be unlawful 
for any person to ship out of this State any birds, fish or animals, except when 
the same shall be in the personal possession of, or carried as baggage or express, 
by the owner thereof, and accompanied by the owner thereof, upon the same train 
or other conveyance. It is required that all packages containing fish or game shall 
be labeled to disclose the contents. Game killed without the State may be sold. 
SOUTH CAROLINA. 
A. A. Richardson, Chief Game Warden. 
Close Seasons.—'Close seasons are: Deer, Jan. 1 to Sept. 1. Partridge, wild turkey, 
March 15 to Nov. 15. Ducks, geese, brant, Jan. 16, to Oct. 1. Dove, March 1 to 
Aug. 15. Woodcock, Jan. 15 to Sept. 1. Willet, March 1 to Nov. 1. Rails, coots, 
gallinules, Nov. 30 to Sept. 1. No provision in 1914 laws. Plover, snipe, Jan. 31 to 
Nov. 20. No provision in 1914 laws. Grackle, March 1 to Oct. 1. Reed and rice 
birds, Oct. 31 to Sept. 1. No provision in 1914 laws. Wood duck, Mar. 1 to Sept. 1. 
Shipment.—It shall be unlawful to receive for shipment any of the game birds 
or game animals of this State, unless the package containing them shall be labeled 
so as to show the consignor and consignee, the number and names of the birds 
and animals, and that they are not shipped for sale, except wild duck, rail and 
rice birds. 
The following are game birds: Swans, wild geese, brant, wild ducks, rails (marsh 
hens) coots, gallinules, surf birds, snipe, woodcock, sandpipers, upland plover, 
curlew, wild turkey, prairie chicken, quail (partridge), rice bird, blackbird and dove. 
All other species of wild, resident or migratory birds shall be considered non¬ 
game birds. 
Limit.—No person shall kill more than 25 partridges, or 25 doves, or 12 wood¬ 
cock, or 2 wild turkey, during one day during the season, or more than 5 deer 
during any one season. 
Non-Res.dent License.—Fee, $1025. Non-resident fishing license $5, venison, pur¬ 
chase or sale unlawful, penalty, $25. 
SOUTH DAKOTA. 
H. S. Hedrick, State Game Warden. 
Deer.—Open season during the month of November; limit one deer. 
Elk, Mountain Sheep, Antelope.—Closed permanently. 
Buffalo.—Open season month of November of each year. Limit, one buffalo. 
Resident License for Deer Hunting.—Procured from the county treasurer of the 
county in which such person desires to kill such animals, upon payment of $5. A big 
game license does not cover small game. 
Export.—Every person, who may wish to transport 'beyond t'he limits of this State 
any carcass or carcasses, beads, antlers, scalps or skins of any of the game ani¬ 
mals named in this act. shall first procure from a justice of the peace a certificate. 
Mink, Muskrat, Otter or Beaver.—Open season, Nov. 15 to April 1. 
When these animals are doing damage to or destroying any property, the person 
whose property is damaged or destroyed may kill them at any time. 
.birds.—No person shall hunt, 'take, kill, ship, convey, or cause to be shipped or 
transported by common or private carrier, to any person, either within or without 
the state, expose for sale, sell to any one, have in possession with intent to sell, 
o- have in possession or under control, at any time any snipe, prairie chicken, 
pinnated, while-breasted or sharp-tailed grouse, partridge, ruffed grouse, Chinese, 
ring-necked or English pheasant, wild duck of any variety, wild goose of any 
variety, brant or any variety of aquatic fowl whatever, or any part thereof, except 
that any snipe, prairie chicken, pinnated, white-breasted, sharp-tailed or ruffed grouse, 
woodcock, partridge, upland and golden plover, may be killed and had in posses¬ 
sion between the 10th day of September and the 10th day of October following, 
except as hereinafter provided; that wild duck of any variety, wild goose of any 
\ariety, brant or any variety of aquatic fowl whatever, may be killed and had in 
possession between the 10th day of September and the 10th day of April following. 
[Game may be possessed five days in the close season.] Limit one day 10 birds, 
except ducks or other aquatic fowl, which shall be 20, or have In possession at 
any one time more than 25 prairie chickens, white-breasted, sharp-tailed or ruffed 
grouse, partridge, pheasant, woodcock, upland plover, golden plover or any or all 
of the same combined, or 50 snipe, wild duck, geese, brant, or any variety of 
aquatic fowl, or any or all of the same combined. 
Mongolian Pheasants, Golden Pheasants, Reeves Pheasants, Japanese Pheasants, 
Temmiks Pheasants, Trapagan Pheasants.—Closed season to Jan. 1, 1915. 
Licenses.—Issued by county treasurer. Resident, deer, $5; small game, $1 (except 
to hunt on one’s own land). Non-resident, deer, $25; birds, $15; fishing, $2. 
Fish.—It shall be unlawful to take any variety of trout, except lake 'trout, from 
Ncv. 1 to April 1, and to take bass, shad, crappies, pike or pickerel perch, sun-fish 
or catfish or any other variety of food fish, from March ist to May ist following. 
Only 25 fish, except perch and bullheads, can be taken in one day. Same must 
be taken by angling with a hook and line held in the hand or attached to a rod 
or pole so held; nor with more than 2 lines or with more than 3 hooks attached 
thereto. 
Lawful size, pike, 8 inches; bass, shad, crappie or other food fishes, 6 inches. 
Dogs.—None of the animals enumerated herein can be lawfully hunted with a.iy 
dog. The use or running of either pointers or setters in fields or upon lands 
frequented by game birds during the months of April, May and June, is prohibited 
by law. 
Non-resident trappers must, pay a license fee of $10 to take mink, muskrats, 
otter or beaver. 
THE LONGEST CAST IN THE WORLD. 
Editor Forest and Stream'. 
Some three years ago Forest and Stream edi¬ 
torially discussed surf casting weights and stated 
that the records of the Asbury Park Fishing 
Club tournaments in which 3 to 4 ounce weights 
had been used did not show appreciably better 
averages than the events held by clubs using 
2% ounce weights. 
As the membership of the club modestly be¬ 
lieves it to be the greatest organization of Surf 
Anglers on the Atlantic Seaboard (the only 
difficulty being to make the other fellows believe 
it), there remained but one thing to do after 
such a rub as “ye editor” gave. It was neces¬ 
sary to take the world out to Missouri and have 
a regular show. Consequently there has been a 
consistent effort on the part of the lead swingers 
of New Jersey to beat the longest cast to be 
found in the records. Up to 1912 there had been 
but two casts of over 300 ft. made at Asbury; 
