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Once you fillet and freeze or eat your 3 kokes or 8 lakers you can go back out for more, correct?
^^^This.^^^No, a days limit is a days limit.
Also at the Gorge you can only have one limit in your possession.
So if you catch a limit today and eat half of them and then go fishing tomorrow you can only catch enough fish to fill the single day limit.
Check out the guide book page 18
Enlighten me. I thought you could continue fishing (C&R), even while possessing a full limit, as long as you didn't add any more to your possession. I know we're going down the extreme technicality road, but I'd still be interested in knowing the law.^^^This.^^^
I made the daily bag limit/Possession limit mistake a few years back on Fish Lake. Got called out on this forum and have since been much more careful about knowing the regs.
Also keep in mind that on multi-day trips where you fish multiple bodies of water, you have to meet the regs for the water you're currently fishing regardless of what water you fished previous. Meaning if you have fish in your possession at FG in excess of one possession limit you are in violation. EX. you fish two days on the Green River and keep a limit of trout each day - okay because you can have 2 possession limits on multi-day trips on that water. But, if you go to FG to fish, even if you don't keep anything, you are in violation because you have two trout in excess of one FG possession limit. This can also get you on size restricted waters; like going to DC and catching trout over 15 inches and then going and fishing the Provo while still in possession of the larger fish.
The chances of you getting nailed on these strange technicalities is very low. Especially if you have the fish in a cooler at camp and not near your boat. But, all regs are hard to enforce for the COs. It's up to us to self police.
You can fish C&R as long as you do not have fish in violation of the regs on the water you want to fish. From page 42 of the guidebook:Enlighten me. I thought you could continue fishing (C&R), even while possessing a full limit, as long as you didn't add any more to your possession. I know we're going down the extreme technicality road, but I'd still be interested in knowing the law.
Again, I'm not sure how a CO would ever know you have fish in violation if they're not on you (ie in the cooler back at camp). But if you want to keep the technical letter of the law, that's how it's written.For example, if you have been fishing at
Currant Creek Reservoir (which has a general
4 trout limit), you may not stop at Strawberry
Reservoir (which has a more restrictive regulation)
if you have fish from Currant Creek that
violate the rules at Strawberry.
True. But that's not what the original poster was asking about.Enlighten me. I thought you could continue fishing (C&R), even while possessing a full limit, as long as you didn't add any more to your possession. I know we're going down the extreme technicality road, but I'd still be interested in knowing the law.
And:You may continue to fish while in possession of a full daily limit, but you must immediately release any additional fish you catch.
⫸<{{{{{⦇°>Possession of filleted fish
While you are in the act of fishing, it is unlawful to possess filleted fish from the current day's catch or fish that have had their heads or tails removed. This does not apply to fish processed for immediate consumption or from a previous day's catch.
At most waters, you may fillet harvested game fish, or remove their heads or tails, after you have:
• Completed the act of fishing
• Arrived at camp
• Reached a fish-cleaning station
• Arrived at a principle means of land
transportation
This has been bashed around for longer than I can remember. But since you brought it up, what happens when your first fish of the day is in the slot limit and it inhales the lure, fly, or bait? You have to let it go, whether it is hooked too deeply or not. Sorry to say it, but the same concept applies when you've got your limit on a stringer. When you catch a fish that you can't legally keep you have to let it go. Even if it's not going to survive. Period.You can catch are release all day long even with a limit, it doesn't stop you from fishing. But you better hope that one of the fish that you catch doesn't inhale the lure or fly and just by chance passes away and have a fish cop watching or checking you.
I know that it is slim chance but if your luck is like mine just stop putting them on the stringer 1 fish before the limit and then if something happens you are still legal.
That's the catch 22 in the regs and who is to say that the other 30 fish that you catch in a day don't go belly up 10 minutes after you cut your line to let them go.This has been bashed around for longer than I can remember. But since you brought it up, what happens when your first fish of the day is in the slot limit and it inhales the lure, fly, or bait? You have to let it go, whether it is hooked too deeply or not. Sorry to say it, but the same concept applies when you've got your limit on a stringer. When you catch a fish that you can't legally keep you have to let it go. Even if it's not going to survive. Period.
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