Chap. 95.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 40, as amended, of the Game,
Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, relating to bass fishing in Virginia.

(H B 224]
Approved March 4, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section forty, as amended, 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, in-
cluding the first and last days thereof, shall be as follows:
Bass, except rock bass, or redeye——June twentieth to March fit-
teenth east of Blue Ridge, and June twentieth to December thirty-first
west of Blue Ridge; bag limit ten 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, or by
the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries not less than three years
prior thereto, may capture any fish therefrom for his own use at any time.