Chap. 96.—An ACT to repeal sections 3201, 3206, 3207, 3208 and 3210 of the
Code of Virginia, and an act entitled an act to limit the number of certain
game fish that may be taken in any one day in this Commonwealth, approved
March 17, 1922, and to amend and re-enact subsections first, second and third
of section 3195 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to fishing. [S B 33]

Approved March 5, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections thirty-two hundred and one, thirty-two hundred and six,
thirty-two hundred and seven, thirty-two hundred and eight and
thirty-two hundred and ten, of the Code of Virginia, and an act
entitled an act to limit the number of certain game fish that may
be taken in any one day in this Commonwealth, approved March
seventeenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be and the same
are hereby repealed, and subsections first, second and third of sec-
tion thirty-one hundred and ninety-five, of the Code of Virginia,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3195. First. Unlawful fishing.—It shall be unlawful to
kill or capture any brook or mountain, or rainbow trout, or any
tiver bass (commonly called black bass or black perch), or pond
bass (commonly called Southern chub), by any process whatever
in any of the waters of this State at any time (except as provided
in Code, section thirty-two hundred and three), in any manner
other than by angling with hook and line or rod and reel (except
a hand “landing net” may be used to land such fish legally hooked),
and any such fish caught at any time in any other manner shall
be returned to the water immediately with as little injury as possi-
ble; to take or attempt to take any fish of any kind by the use of
any firearms or to gig or spear any fish of any kind except German
carp, suckers and eels, or to muddy any of the said waters in at-
tempting to take therefrom any fish of any kind, or to use German
carp minnows as bait.

Second. Closed season.—To catch any brook or mountain or
rainbow trout between June thirtieth and April first following, or
any river bass (commonly called black bass or black perch), or
pond bass (commonly called Southern chub), between March fif-
teenth and July first of each year.

Third. Size bag and season limit.—It shall be unlawful for any
person to retain any brook or mountain or rainbow trout less than
six inches long or any river bass (commonly called black bass or
black perch), or pond bass (commonly called Southern chub), less
than ten inches long, or to kill or capture more than:

Brook or mountain or rainbow trout, twenty in any one day, or
three hundred in any one season.

River bass (commonly called black bass or black perch), or
pond bass (commonly called Southern chub).—Fifteen in any one
day or one hundred and fifty in any one season.