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Article: New River stretch to become catch-and-release fishery
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- Charleston Gazette
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- August 5, 2000
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THURMOND - A 12-mile section of the New River will be restricted
to catch-and-release for bass fishing beginning Jan. 1, the Natural
Resources Commission has decided. The no-kill regulations will
require anglers to release all smallmouth, largemouth and spotted
bass caught between the Interstate 64 bridge at Sandstone and the
National Park Service's Grandview Sandbar facility near Quinnimont.
"No other species will be affected," said Bert Pierce, the DNR's
chief of warm-water fisheries. Anglers who catch catfish, bluegill,
rock bass, muskellunge, striped bass or hybrid stripers will be
allowed to keep what they catch.
The commission approved the no-kill zone on July 23.
Fishing guides had ...