A. Means And Methods:
1. All waters of the Cordell fish and wildlife management and public use area are closed to commercial fishing.
2. Only rod and reel and/or pole and line may be used to harvest all game and nongame fish species and hybrids thereof from the main reservoir of the Cordell fish and wildlife management and public use area. All other areas, including the area's streams, tailwaters, ponds, and wetlands, are closed to fishing.
3. No person may use more than two (2) poles and line or rods and reels while fishing.
4. The use of the following means to harvest or attempt to harvest aquatic organisms in all of the waters of the Cordell fish and wildlife management and public use area are prohibited: bow and arrows, grabhooks, gigs, spears, spearguns, snagging, noodling, yo-yos, seines, throw lines, juglines, limblines, trotlines, gill nets, trammel nets, hoop nets, cast nets, trawl nets, minnow traps, fish traps, handheld dip nets, and haul seines.
5. Only designated legal fish species and hybrids thereof may be harvested.
6. It is illegal to take or attempt to take by any means or methods bullfrogs, salamanders, aquatic plants, turtles, snakes (except as incidental catch by legal fishing methods), and aquatic invertebrates. All such wildlife incidentally caught must be immediately released back onto the reservoir from where caught.
B. Legal Species: All species of fish that are present in the large reservoir of the Cordell fish and wildlife management and public use area may be harvested by all legal fishing methods as defined in this chapter.
C. Size Limits: Except as provided in subsection D of this section, there are no length and/or size limit restrictions on game or nongame fish.
D. Daily Bag, Length And Possession Limits:
1. No person shall, during any one day, take, attempt to take, kill, or harvest more than the following bag limits each day:
a. Largemouth, smallmouth, and/or spotted bass in the aggregate: Effective Friday, May 5, 2000, all black bass (largemouth, spotted, and smallmouth) from sixteen inches to twenty one inches (16" - 21") total length must be returned to the reservoir unharmed immediately after being taken. No person shall, during any one day, take, attempt to take, kill, or harvest more than three (3) black bass that are less than sixteen inches (16") in total length. No person shall, during any one day, take, attempt to take, kill, or harvest more than one black bass longer than twenty one inches (21") in total length.
b. Six (6) channel and/or blue catfish or six (6) in the aggregate. There is no length limit on this group.
c. Ten (10) white and/or black crappie or ten (10) in the aggregate. There is no length limit on this group.
d. Six (6) rainbow trout and/or brown trout, or six (6) in the aggregate. There is no length limit on this group. (1997 Code § 11-215)
e. One northern pike and/or muskellunge. There is no length limit on this group. (1997 Code § 11-215; amd. 2014 Code)
f. Three (3) walleye, sauger and/or saugeye, or three (3) in the aggregate. There is no length limit on this group.
g. Two (2) striped bass, striped bass hybrids and/or white bass, or two (2) in the aggregate. There is no length limit on this group.
h. One flathead catfish. There is no length limit on this group.
2. No person shall, during any one day, take, attempt to take, kill or harvest more than one day's bag limit of fish.
E. Attended Fishing Gear: All fishing gear must be within visual observing distance of the fisher.
F. Live Bait:
1. Fishers shall not release unused living bait animals into the waters of the Cordell fish and wildlife management and public use area.
2. The possession or use of the following exotic fish or their eggs is prohibited in the city reservoir fish and wildlife management and public use area: walking catfish, grass carp, bony-tongues, piranha group, electric eels, electric catfish, garpike topminnow, shakehead groups, pavon or peacock bass, parasitic South American catfish group, freshwater stingray group, houri, rudd and rudd hybrids, bighead carp, silver carp, black carp, alewives, rainbow smelt, and tilapia. (1997 Code § 11-215)