Trout Limits

[Snowflake]

On Taneycomo...can you keep fishin after you keep your limit of four?

[Phil Lilley]

Yes. Legally, once you have 4 trout in your livewell or stringer, you can't keep any more. Can't cull (release and keep another).

You can keep fishing. Catch and release trout or catch, keep or release other species of fish.

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

So what do people do in the trout tourneys if they can't cull. Cuz usually catching the trout isn't the problem it's just weeding through all the stockers to get the ones ya want

[Phil Lilley]

Only sanctioned bass tournaments are allowed to legally cull fish and sanctioned tournaments are all catch and release with penalties for dead fish.

My public tournaments are catch and release, no deductions for dead fish (except the natural deduction - a dead fish weighs less than a live fish).

I know of only one time where anglers were ticketed for replacing fish on a stringer during a tournament - that was a long time ago, prior to 1997 and new regs. There were guys who had boated to the dam, got out, were wading and fishing with bait. They were culling and were ticketed.

Participants cull at their own risk.

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Makes since, thanks,I always kinda wondered about your tourneys if they had to be alive since trout can be a little hard to keep lively. And the boat I use at Taney doesn't have a live well so it is virtually impossible to keep them alive in a basket when your going from spot to spot

[fishinwrench]

In a team tourney your usually only weighing the best SINGLE limit among 2 (or more) anglers, so a cull technicality is "usually" overlooked.... and rightly so.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

Once you have your share of fish limited by your license agreement - isn't that it ?

I have no idea...

[bikehikefish]

I thought that we have to stop fishing after possessing a limit, but after reading through the possess and limit section of the 2013 wildlife code, I do not see it in the rule. Wonder why I thought that, maybe it is a trout park rule?

[Phil Lilley]

Only in trout parts... no where else.

[Bimmer]

Once you have your share of fish limited by your license agreement - isn't that it ?

I have no idea...

The license doesn't necessarily reflect the limit. ALWAYS check for the limit regulations pertaining to the waters you're fishing. Those regulations with ALWAYS overrule whatever the state limit for the license is.