Freshwater gamefish with a spear in your state?

[slingshaft]

~~~> "Unfair and not sporting" Getting in the water and hunting Dinosaurs!

[Chuuken]

I understand that list is old, so here's an update for Michigan and Wisconsin.
**EDIT ** I put info off the top of my head originally, here's an edit for posterity:

//Wisconsin - http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/fishing/docu...et1213_web.pdf
excerpt: Underwater Spear Fishing:
It is lawful to take the following fish species with the use of spears and spear guns by
skin and scuba diving in all waters where spearing for rough fish is permitted from
sunrise to sunset during the listed spearing seasons: white bass, yellow bass (striped),
rock bass, crappie, bluegill, perch, pumpkinseed (sunfish) and bullheads provided that
the season for these species is also open on the same water. Daily bag limits and length
restrictions also apply.

//Michigan - http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dn...9_380736_7.pdf
excerpt of species: bowfin, bullhead, burbot, carp, catfish, cisco (lake herring), drum, gizzard shad, goldfish, grass carp, longnose gar, smelt, sucker (they have a list of species for sucker), lake whitefish.
** END EDIT

I post this because they were opposite on the 2010 list. I have written the DNR in MI myself about opening more species like panfish and the perch family. I'll write again this season. (They actually called me back last year, and told me they were already working on simplifying the rules because of lobbying by bowfishermen. Since the regs are lumped together, the bowfishermen are our allies on this one!)

Mike

[allhunter]

I may be wrong but i believe that in Wisconsin you can spear all rough fish, any invasive species and panfish. These include perch blue gills, crappie, white bass, etc.

[landlock spearo]

Rocky Mountain Spearo I noticed on your list that you indicated that NY was open to spearing all fish with some limitations on the waters. In looking at the NY web site it looks like only rough fish are legal, the waters are very limited, and spearguns are not permited at all. I would love it if I was wrong. http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/31416.html

[Rocky Mountain Spearo]

Yes, that could be. That list was made in 2010.

[RJustice]

Gamefish are off limits in Texas period. Fresh or salt water. I would suggest to go to each states web site and check for yourself. That way you can be 100% sure you are not citing wrong or out of date information. Presenting wrong or out of date info might discredit you and derail your efforts before you even get started. Good luck with your venture.