Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(1) Statewide daily and possession limits
shall apply for all species, except that: In lakes and ponds, daily limits are
catfish in the aggregate (channel catfish, blue catfish, flathead catfish),
four (4); black bass, six (6); crappie, thirty (30); and all other fish,
statewide limits, but not to exceed twenty (20) in the aggregate; except as
otherwise provided in this chapter.
(2) The daily limit for black bass shall be
two (2) on the following department areas or individually named lakes:
(A) Amarugia Highlands Conservation
Area
(B) Atkinson Lake (Schell-Osage
Conservation Area)
(C) Belcher
Branch Lake Conservation Area
(D)
Bellefontaine Conservation Area
(E)
Blackwell Lake (Indian Trail Conservation Area)
(F) Busch (August A.) Memorial Conservation
Area
(G) Combs (Jerry P.) Lake
(Little River Conservation Area)
(H) DeLaney (Robert G.) Lake Conservation
Area
(I) DiSalvo (Carl) Lake
(Bismarck Conservation Area)
(J)
Happy Holler Lake Conservation Area
(K) Hartell (Ronald and Maude) Conservation
Area
(L) Kearn (J. N. "Turkey")
Memorial Wildlife Area
(M) Lake
Paho Conservation Area
(N) Lone
Jack Lake Conservation Area
(O)
Maple Leaf Lake Conservation Area
(P) Port Hudson Lake Conservation Area
(Q) Reed (James A.) Memorial
Wildlife Area
(R) Schell Lake
(Schell-Osage Conservation Area)
(S) Weldon Spring Conservation Area
(3) The daily limit for crappie
shall be fifteen (15) on the following department areas:
(A) Bellefontaine Conservation Area
(B) Busch (August A.) Memorial Conservation
Area (except Lake 33)
(C) DeLaney
(Robert G.) Lake Conservation Area
(D) Lake Girardeau Conservation
Area
(E) Schell-Osage Conservation
Area
(F) Weldon Spring Conservation
Area
(G) Weldon Spring Conservation
Area
(4) The daily limit
for white bass, striped bass, and their hybrids in the aggregate shall be four
(4) on the following department areas or individually named lakes:
(A) Busch (August A.) Memorial Conservation
Area
(B) Belcher Branch Lake
Conservation Area
(C) Harmony
Mission Lake (Harmony Mission Conservation Area)
(D) Lake Paho Conservation Area
(E) Limpp Community Lake
(F) Little Compton Lake (Little Compton Lake
Conservation Area)
(G) Nodaway
County Community Lake
(H) Perry
County Community Lake
(I) Reed
(James A.) Memorial Wildlife Area
(5) The daily limit for bluegill and other
sunfish shall be ten (10) in the aggregate on the following department areas:
(A) General Watkins Conservation
Area
(B) Tobacco Hills Lake (Park
(Guy B.) Conservation Area)
(6) On Duck Creek Conservation Area,
statewide limits shall apply for other fish as designated in
3 CSR
10-6.550.
(7) On Busch (August A.) Memorial
Conservation Area-
(A) On Lakes 7 and 21,
trout must be returned to the water unharmed immediately after being caught
from November 1 through January 31. Trout may not be possessed on these waters
during this season. No person shall continue to fish for any species after
having four (4) trout in possession from February 1 through October 31;
and
(B) On Lakes 3, 22, and 23, no
person shall continue to fish for any species after having four (4) trout in
possession.
(8) The daily
limit for fish other than those designated as endangered in
3 CSR
10-4.111 or defined as game fish shall be ten (10) in
the aggregate on the following department areas:
(A) Bluegill Pond (Bellefontaine Conservation
Area)
(B) Busch (August A.)
Memorial Conservation Area
(C)
Daniel Boone Conservation Area
(D)
Logan (William R.) Conservation Area
(E) Port Hudson Lake Conservation
Area
(F) Reifsnider (Frank, Emma
Elizabeth and Edna) State Forest
(G) Weldon Spring Conservation Area
(H) White (William G. and Erma Parke)
Memorial Wildlife Area
(9) On Lake 12 (Busch (August A.) Memorial
Conservation Area) the daily limit for all fish shall be two (2) in the
aggregate.
*Original authority: 252.240, RSMo 1972, amended
1984.
