RELATES TO:
KRS 150.025,
150.090,
150.170,
150.175,
150.250,
150.340,
150.360,
150.370,
150.470
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS 150.025 authorizes the department to
promulgate administrative regulations restricting the use of state recreational
areas, establish seasons for the taking of fish and wildlife, regulate creel
limits and methods of take, and to make these requirements apply to a limited
area. The U.S. Forest Service has requested the Kentucky Department of Fish and
Wildlife Resources to enforce its special fishing administrative regulations on
the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area waters. This administrative
regulation establishes the conditions and provisions under which fishing is
permitted in the Land Between the Lakes area, provides for enforcement by state
conservation officers, and provides compliance with the U.S. Forest
Service.
Section 1. Fishing shall be
permitted in Land Between the Lakes in accordance with the following
requirements:
(1) Energy Lake.
(a) Fishing from a boat or the bank shall be
permitted year-round except in the waterfowl refuge area.
(b) The waterfowl refuge area shall be the
western one-third (1/3) of the lake and it shall be open to fishing from March
16 through October 31.
(2) Honker Lake.
(a) Fishing from a boat or the bank shall be
permitted from March 16 through October 31.
(b) Fishing shall be permitted year-round in
the portion of Honker Lake which extends from near the end, as indicated by
signs, of the Long Creek Walk handicap trail to the base of the Hematite Lake
spillway.
(3) Hematite
Lake.
(a) Fishing from a boat or the bank
shall be permitted from March 16 through October 31.
(b) Gas-powered motors shall not be
permitted.
(4) Farm
ponds. Farm ponds shall be open to fishing year-round unless posted.
(5) Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake.
(a) Fishing shall be open year-round unless
posted.
(b) Bank fishing and
frogging from the shoreline shall be permitted except in areas that are posted
as closed for waterfowl refuges and other special uses.
(c) Frogging shall be by gigging
only.
Section
2. Frogs may be taken in farm ponds and Energy and Honker Lakes by
gigs only from May 15 through May 31. Hematite Lake and other areas as posted
shall be closed to frogging.
Section
3.
(1) Boats shall operate at
"no wake" speed on Energy and Honker Lakes.
(2) A federal permit shall not be required
for fishing or frogging.
(3) All
administrative regulations pertaining to fishing and limits shall
apply.
