Section 29.405. Fishing with bow and arrow or crossbow.

 

(1)  No person may do any of the following:

(a) Take rough fish with a bow and arrow or take rough fish with a bolt from a crossbow unless the arrow or bolt is equipped with a metal barbed tip and is attached to the bow or crossbow with a tethered line that allows for the retrieval of the arrow or bolt and the fish.

(b) Release or return any rough fish taken with a bow and arrow or crossbow, whether dead or alive, to the waters of this state.

(c) Leave any rough fish taken with a bow and arrow or crossbow, whether dead or alive, on the ice or banks of any waters of this state.

(2)  Any person who takes rough fish with a bow and arrow or crossbow in any waters of this state shall remove the fish from those waters and use or dispose of the fish in an appropriate manner as determined by the department.

(3)  If the department establishes an open season for taking rough fish with a bow and arrow or crossbow on a particular body of water, the department shall allow the taking of rough fish with a bow and arrow or crossbow on that body of water from sunset to sunrise during that open season.

(4)  If the department establishes an open season for taking rough fish with a bow and arrow on a particular body of water, the department shall also allow the use of a crossbow to take rough fish on that body of water under the same conditions that apply to the use of a bow and arrow to take rough fish on that body of water.

2005 a. 291 ; 2007 a. 97 ; 2011 a. 180 .