indiana catfish regulations talk

[river scum]

i seen some interest and concerns on our IN. regulations. i am putting this,topic specific, thread out to hopefully get more input from my Indiana brothers. so lets hear what you think on the subject guys n gals.

[HoosierPoleCat]

I'm with ya river scum. Indiana should look into this matter more closely.

[MadKater]

Ill do some reasearching as soon as i am able and maybe i can come up with a name and e-mail adress so we can bombard em with emails and request that they look into revising some of the current regulations {or lack of} for catfish.....we'll get er done ;)

[flathunter]

good luck guys, it may take awhile..But It will be worth it.

[zappaf19]

spiecies Catfish limit min size
channel,blue flathead (stream) none 10"
channel,blue flatheadlakes (lakes, res) 10 none
bullhead cat none none

Theses came from
Indiana fishing guide
DNR Division of Fish and wildlife

www.wildlife.IN.gov.


The date of this publication is 2004 but I do not think they have changed anything. I also did not list all spiecies fish. If you would like info a certain spiecie e mail me. (I'm to lazy to type the whole thing out)LOL :D


If you would like to write them:

DNR402 W. Washington Street
Indianapolis Indidana
46204-2781

Phone
317-232-4080
I hope this helps.
Bill :cool:

[Fishgeek]

You are correct Bill. The catfish regs. have not change since 2004...actually, they haven't changed much since 1969. I just found a file containing IN's fishing regs. -- looks like 1969 to present.

1969 catfish regs:

Rivers & Streams -- blues & flats daily bag = none; min. size = none
channels = none; = 10"

Lake & Reservoirs - all species = 10; = 10"

Around 1979 the DNR dropped the size limit on catfish in lakes & reservoirs, which makes those regs the same as we have now.

[zappaf19]

Do you no why they dropped the size limits?
Bill :confused:

[zappaf19]

Lets start a e mail campain. (sps) We could all use the same letter and send it to one e mail address. Does anyone have any ideas?
Bill :confused: