JF Griffin - Index

JF Griffin - magazine - Index

Notice of inspection law: It is the duty
of every person participating in the
privileges of taking or possessing wild‑
life to permit agency officers to ascertain
whether the requirements of this title are
being faithfully complied with, including
the possession of a proper license. It is a
violation of law to refuse such inspection or
to interfere with an officer attempting such
inspection. TCA 70-6-101(b)(1)
BasiC laws aND DefiNitioNs
Ε Stocking of any fish into public waters is strictly
prohibited.
Ε Explosives, chemicals and electrical shocking
devices are strictly forbidden, and their use
carries heavy penalties.
Ε Shooting in the water with any type of firearm
to injure or take fish or turtles is prohibited.
Ε All boaters and passengers must wear a Coast
Guard approved life jacket within the area
designated and appropriately marked as a
hazardous area below any dam and/or lock.
Ε It is illegal to take any fish or turtle that is
endangered, threatened or listed as in need of
management.
Ε It is illegal to sell or offer to sell fish or turtles
without a commercial fishing license.
umbrella rig restriction - Umbrella rigs are
defined as an array of more than 3 artificial lures
or baits (with or without hooks) used by a single
rod and reel combination. If the hook size is 6 or
larger, then only one lure
or bait may have a hook
and that hook must be a
single hook.
single hook - a hook
with only one point.
#6 treble #6 single
Bait - Any living or dead
actual size
organism, or prepared
substance designed to attract fish by taste or
odor. For the purpose of this proclamation bait
includes, but is not limited to, fish, fish eggs,
crayfish, worms, grubs, crickets, corn, cheese,
bread, pork rinds, putty or paste-type products,
and flavors or scents applied to or impregnated
into artificial lures.
gigging - The taking of fish by means of a handheld
pole or spear with a tip consisting of a single,
sharpened point or one or more sharpened barbed
points. This includes, but is not limited to gear
known as the Hawaiian sling.
spear gun - Any device designed to propel a
spear through water and is drawn or held by a
mechanical device.
GeNeraL INfOrmatION
ReCiPRoCal agReeMeNts
Tennessee has several reciprocal agreements with adjacent states. These agreements have been
arranged so that any fishing license from either Tennessee or the corresponding state is valid in
the following waters.
alabama/Mississippi: Pickwick lake
- Applies to anyone with a valid Sport Fishing
License from Tennessee, Alabama or Mississippi.
Resident anglers of the three states may fish
without purchasing a nonresident license
anywhere within the boundaries covered by
the agreement. The reciprocal area includes all
impounded water from Pickwick Dam upstream
to Tennessee River Mile 224.8 at the mouth of
Bear Creek but does not include Bear Creek and
does not include that portion of Yellow Creek
above the Hwy. 25 Bridge. Sport fishing license
holders shall abide by the regulations of the state
in whose waters they are fishing.
arkansas and tennessee agree to honor
either license on the flowing waters of the
Mississippi River, adjacent sloughs, bayous
and old river runs, which are accessible by boat
from the river proper, and the old river chutes
forming a common boundary, excluding all
wildlife management areas established by either
state and the Wolf, Loosahatchie, Hatchie,
Forked Deer and Obion rivers. The following
common regulations apply:
• Black bass- creel limit 10, no length limit
• Bream- creel limit 50, no length limit
• Catfish- no creel limit, only one per day
over 34 inches
• Crappie- creel limit 50, no length limit
• Striped bass and Cherokee Bass/Hybrids
- creel limit 6, no length limit
• Sauger- creel limit 6, no length limit
• White Bass- creel limit 30, no length limit
All anglers must follow Arkansas regulations
governing creel and size limits, trotlines, and
other equipment requirements on Ikes Chute,
Hopefield Chute, Mosquito Lake, Mound City
Lake, Island 40 Chute and Lake Neark.
Kentucky: Dale Hollow lake - Sportfishing
licenses from either state are recognized in Wolf
River including Illwill Creek, beginning at a line
crossing the Wolf River at its mouth where it
joins the Obey River. Creel limits and other
regulations of the state where the license was
issued apply.
Big south fork of the Cumberland
River - Sportfishing licenses from either state
are recognized from Leatherwood Ford Bridge
(Hwy. 279) in Tennessee, downstream to the
Hwy. 92 bridge at Yamacraw, Kentucky. Creel
limits and other regulations of the state where
the license was issued apply.
Kentucky lake - Each state will recognize the
sport fishing licenses for the other state on the
portion of Kentucky Lake south of the Eggners
Ferry Bridge (US 68 & Hwy. 80) in Kentucky
and north of the Governor Ned McWherter
Bridge (US 79 & Hwy. 76) in Tennessee. This
includes all embayments and tributaries within
this portion of Kentucky Lake except the Blood
River embayment. Blood River embayment shall
be defined as a straight line between opposite
points where the embayment connects to the
main body of Kentucky Lake. A sport fishing
license holder from either state may fish from
the bank or attach legal sport fishing trot or limb
lines in this described portion of Kentucky Lake.
Sport fishing license holders shall abide by the
regulations of the state in whose waters they are
fishing. Wildlife enforcement officials in either
state shall have the right to inspect the licenses,
permits, catches and equipment of any person
on this portion of Kentucky Lake subject to the
laws of either state.
Missouri: Persons possessing a valid
sportfishing license in either state may fish in
the Mississippi River and its backwaters within
the boundaries of the other state and any oxbow
lakes through which the Missouri-Tennessee
boundary passes. They may fish from or attach
any device or equipment to land under the
jurisdiction of the other state. Persons licensed
in only one state may not fish in the Mississippi
River tributaries of the other state. Anglers
must comply with the fishing regulations of the
state where they are fishing and when fishing
where they are not licensed will comply with
the most restrictive state’s regulation. Persons
legally exempted from license requirements of
either state are entitled to these privileges and
provisions.
Except where it is shown to be elsewhere,
the center of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
navigation channel will be the boundary
between Tennessee and Missouri.
North Carolina: All of Calderwood Reservoir
while fishing from a boat and in that portion of
Slickrock Creek which constitutes the boundary
between the two states. (See chart on page 32
for trout regulations on Calderwood Reservoir
and Slickrock Creek.)
10 2008 Fishing Guide