Chap. 361.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 40 of the Game, Inland Fish
and Dog Code of Virginia, relating to bass fishing in Virginia. [H 242]

Approved March 31, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1. That section forty of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of
Virginia be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 40. Open season; method of taking bass; bag and size limit.
—The open season during which it shall be lawful to take any species of
bass from the inland waters of this State, but only by angling with hook
and line, attached to a rod or pole, either with or without a reel, and with
or without the aid of a hand landing net, and the bag and size limit a
person may take in any one day or in any one open season, including
the first and last days thereof, shall be as follows:

Bass, except rock bass, or redeye.—June twentieth to March fifteenth
east of Blue Ridge, and June twentieth to December thirty-first west of
Blue Ridge; bag limit fifteen a day—one hundred and fifty a season;
not less than ten inches in length from tip of nose to tip of tail.

Rock bass, or redeye.—June twentieth to March fifteenth east of Blue
Ridge, and June twentieth to December thirty-first west of Blue Ridge;
bag limit fifteen a day—one hundred and fifty a season:

Exemption
The owner, or lessee, of any private pond stocked by himself may
capture bass and trout of any species therefrom for his own use at any
time.