Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A) The eastern fishing unit of the Ohio
river shall consist of those counties bordering the state of West Virginia and
more specifically the counties of Columbiana, Jefferson, Belmont, Monroe,
Washington, Athens, Meigs, Gallia, and that portion of Lawrence east of the
West Virginia and Kentucky state lines. Provided further, it shall be unlawful
to take or possess any fish contrary to this rule or any other division of
wildlife rule when within a quarter mile of the Ohio river or its embayment
areas and tributaries to the first riffle or dam in the eastern fishing unit of
the Ohio river.
(B) It shall be
unlawful for any person to take or possess more than two muskellunge, or six
largemouth, smallmouth, or spotted bass singly or in the aggregate in any one
day in the area prescribed in paragraph (A) of this rule.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to
take or possess a muskellunge or tiger muskie less than thirty inches in
length, in the area prescribed in paragraph (A) of this rule.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to
take or possess more than thirty striped bass, hybrid striped bass, or white
bass, singly or in the aggregate of which no more than four may be more than
fifteen inches in length in any one day in the area prescribed in paragraph (A)
of this rule.
(3) It shall be
unlawful to take or possess a largemouth bass, smallmouth bass or spotted bass
less than twelve inches in length from the area described in paragraph (A) of
this rule.
(4) It shall be unlawful
to take or possess more than thirty black or white crappie singly or in the
aggregate in any one day from the area described in paragraph (A) of this
rule.
(5) It shall be unlawful for
any person to take or possess more than
six saugeyes,
six walleyes, or
six
sauger, singly or in the aggregate in any one day from the area describe in
paragraph (A) of this rule.
(C) The western fishing unit of the Ohio
river shall consist of those counties bordering the state of Kentucky and more
specifically that portion of Lawrence county west of the Kentucky and Ohio
border and the entire counties of Scioto, Adams, Brown, Clermont, and Hamilton.
Provided further, it shall be unlawful to take or possess any fish contrary to
this rule or any other division of wildlife rule when on or within a quarter
mile of the Ohio river or in its embayment areas and tributaries to the first
riffle or dam in those counties or portions thereof in the western fishing unit
of the Ohio river.
(1) It shall be unlawful
for any person to take or possess more than six largemouth, smallmouth, or
spotted bass singly or in the aggregate, or more than two muskellunge or tiger
muskie singly or in the aggregate, or thirty black or white crappie singly or
in the aggregate in any one day in the area prescribed in paragraph (C) of this
rule.
(2) It shall be unlawful for
any person to take or possess more than thirty striped bass, hybrid striped
bass, white bass, singly or in the aggregate in any one day in the area
prescribed in paragraph (C) of this rule. Provided further, it shall be
unlawful to take or possess more than four striped bass, hybrid striped bass,
white bass singly or in the aggregate more than fifteen inches in length in any
one day in the area prescribed in paragraph (C) of this rule.
(3) It shall be unlawful to take or possess a
largemouth bass, spotted bass or smallmouth bass less than twelve inches in
length or a muskellunge or tiger muskie less than thirty inches in
length.
(4) It shall be unlawful
for any person to take or possess more than
six saugeyes,
six
walleyes, or
six sauger, singly or in the aggregate in any one day
in the area described in paragraph (C) of this rule.
(5)
It shall be
unlawful for any person to take or possess a saugeye, walleye, or sauger less
than fourteen inches in length from the area described in paragraph (C) of this
rule.
(D) The
possession limits set forth in this rule shall not apply to such fish when
stored in a persons abode in those areas prescribed in paragraphs (A) and (C)
of this rule.
(E) All definitions
set forth in rule
1501:31-1-02
of the Administrative Code shall apply to this rule.
