2004-2007 Fishing Regulations Set

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The Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission recently adopted the tentative 2004-2007 fishing regulations with only a few changes to the tentative proposals. Those changes included:

*  Owner identification on portable ice shelters will not be required, though identification is required on other less easily moved shelters for ice fishing.

*  Exemptions to catch-and-release rules will allow anglers 14 years of age and younger to keep one brown trout on Hauser and Holter reservoirs and Lake Helena, and one rainbow trout on the Bighorn, Madison and Boulder rivers.

*  Proposed changes to the standard hook and setline regulations in the Central District were dropped based on public comment. These regulations will remain essentially as they were in 2003.

The final 2004-2007 angling regulation booklets will be available sometime in mid-February.