02-03-2009, 11:50 PM
Any fish that doesn’t meet the size, bag or
species rules for the water you’re fishing
must be returned to the water immediately.
Copied from the Utah 2009 Fishing Guidebook, aka proclamation. Emphasis added.
There is a specific exception to this rule when fishing Yuba or Deer Creek reservoir. The first 10 perch you catch must be kept, and cannot be released. Any other time, or any other water, you can continue to fish when you have a limit. Even if you catch a species which you already possess a bag limit of. If your example of lake trout at Bear Lake were correct, you could never fish Bear Lake. You might catch a Bear Lake Cutthroat trout that had all of it's fins (including the adipose fin) intact. The possession limit on those is zero. Therefore you cannot keep any of them. If you reel one in, you would be in violation of the bag limit if you kept it. The regulation cited above allows you to release said fish unharmed, and not be in violation. The same could be said for Tiger Muskies. You cannot keep them, but you can catch more than your limit (0) provided you release them.
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species rules for the water you’re fishing
must be returned to the water immediately.
Copied from the Utah 2009 Fishing Guidebook, aka proclamation. Emphasis added.
There is a specific exception to this rule when fishing Yuba or Deer Creek reservoir. The first 10 perch you catch must be kept, and cannot be released. Any other time, or any other water, you can continue to fish when you have a limit. Even if you catch a species which you already possess a bag limit of. If your example of lake trout at Bear Lake were correct, you could never fish Bear Lake. You might catch a Bear Lake Cutthroat trout that had all of it's fins (including the adipose fin) intact. The possession limit on those is zero. Therefore you cannot keep any of them. If you reel one in, you would be in violation of the bag limit if you kept it. The regulation cited above allows you to release said fish unharmed, and not be in violation. The same could be said for Tiger Muskies. You cannot keep them, but you can catch more than your limit (0) provided you release them.
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