NORTH CAROLINA Inland Fishing, Hunting and Trapping. regulations digest

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1 NORTH CAROLINA Inand Fishing, Hunting and Trapping reguations digest Effective Aug.1, 2016 to Juy 31, 2017 Find the Reguations Digest onine at ncwidife.org. This pubication is furnished free by the N.C. Widife Resources Commission.

2 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Pat McCrory, Governor NORTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION John Litton Cark, Chairman Cinton John T. Coey IV, Vice Chairman Hoy Springs Thomas A. Berry Greensboro Joseph (Joe) Budd Winston-Saem Ray Cifton Carkton James Cogde Norwood Mark Craig Greensboro Richard Edwards Wimington Thomas L. (Tommy) Fonvie Raeigh W. Nea Hanks, Jr. Ashevie Nat T. Harris Burington Mike Johnson Hickory Dean Proctor Hickory Wes Seegars Godsboro Timothy L. (Tim) Spear Creswe Garry Spence Charotte John A. Stone Jackson Springs Brian White Manteo Landon G. Zimmer Wimington Dear Widife Stakehoders: For the past 25 years, I have had the great honor of working aongside a remarkabe team of peope devoted to conserving North Caroina s widife and wid paces whie creating opportunities for everyone to enjoy those resources. That team incudes bioogists, technicians, educators, administrative staff, aw enforcement officers, engineers and many others who are among the best and brightest in the fish, widife and natura resources fieds. Together, this team provides: science and information needed to make sound resource-management decisions aw enforcement and education to assure compiance with conservation aws and reguations, and opportunities for every citizen to enjoy North Caroina s widife resources. Our team aso incudes passionate and devoted commissioners who vounteer countess hours as stewards of North Caroina s widife resources. Finay, our conservation team incudes many other partners, incuding widife enthusiasts ike yoursef, ocated in every corner of our state. Your interest and participation in widife-associated recreation is vita to conserving North Caroina s widife resources and their associated habitats. So, on behaf of the Widife Resources Commission, thank you! As one of our ongstanding conservation partners recenty said to me, Conservation is a team sport. Here are a few exampes of how our many partners contribute to the widife resources community: Vounteers who: teach workshops, hunter education casses and outdoor skis seminars. coach Youth Hunter Education Skis teams and assist with widife events, incuding hunting opportunities for disabed sportsmen and fishing outings. introduce newcomers to widife watching through fied trips and cub activities. Citizens who: provide scientific data on amphibians, deer, bats, sea turtes, birds, poinators, turkey and other animas through citizen science programs. assist with resource management, incuding removing invasive species from fieds and waterways. participate in pubic meetings and focus groups to assist in making poicy recommendations. Landowners, businesses and communities who: provide access to outdoor enthusiasts to enjoy widife-associated recreation adopt widife-friendy management practices by using Green Growth Toobox, Conservation Reserve Program, quai management and other programs. support youth programs and specia opportunities with monetary and in-kind donations. hep operate and maintain more than 311 boating access areas and fishing piers, most with universa access. provide six (6) pubic shooting ranges through federa and oca partnerships, with two (2) sated to open next year. Hunters, angers and trappers who: provide essentia data that assist widife bioogists through Big Game Report Cards, user surveys and pubic comments. assist widife enforcement officers in the fied by reporting widife vioations. mentor newcomers. Remember that Youth Waterfow Days are extended this year to 16- and 17-year-ods, and our Hats On campaign continues. Successfu conservation requires that we maintain and support our ongstanding partnerships whie forging new ones aong the way. Thank you for a you do to hep conserve North Caroina s widife and wid paces for future generations to enjoy. Sincerey Yours, Gordon Myers Kye Briggs Executive Director Chief Deputy Director Gordon Myers Executive Director

3 Chowan Cherokee TELEPHONE NUMBERS Big Game Harvest Reporting I-GOT-ONE...( ) Boating Access Areas Boating Safety Course Information Boater Safety Education - Repacement Certificates Conservation Education Division Enforcement Operations Office Engineering Division Hunter Safety Course Information Hunter Safety Education - Repacement Certificates Inand Fisheries Division License Information License Purchases by Credit Card Marine Fisheries Migratory Bird Hunting Dates & Shooting Hours Personne Officer Reguation Information Widife Caendar/ N.C. Wid Store Products Widife in North Caroina Magazine Vesse Registration and Titing Vioations Reporting in the Raeigh area vtty* *(TTY machine avaiabe for peope with hearing disabiities) Widife Management Division Graham Cay Swain Macon N.C. WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION CENTERS FOR FISH AND WILDLIFE EDUCATION Madison 9u Jackson Haywood Transyvania Buncombe Yancey Henderson Centennia Campus Center for Widife Education NCSU Centennia Campus 1751 Varsity Drive Raeigh, NC ncwidife.org/centennia Mitche McDowe Pok Watauga Ashe Avery 8 Burke Rutherford Cadwe 7 Wikes Aeghany Aexander Catawba Lincon Gaston Irede Pisgah Center for Widife Education 1401 Fish Hatchery Road Pisgah Forest, NC ncwidife.org/pisgah Ceveand Meckenburg Surry Yadkin Davie Stokes Forsyth Davidson Rowan 6 Cabarrus Union Stany Anson Rockingham Guiford Randoph Montgomery Richmond 5 u3 u 4 2 Jones Visit us onine at ncwidife.org for maps to our faciities. Moore Scotand Caswe Aamance Chatham Orange Lee Hoke Robeson Person Durham Wake Harnett Cumberand Outer Banks Center for Widife Education 1160 Viage Lane Coroa, NC ncwidife.org/obx Granvie Coumbus Vance Frankin Johnston Sampson Baden Warren Brunswick Nash Wison Wayne Dupin Pender Haifax Northampton Edgecombe Greene Lenoir Pitt Onsow Hertford Bertie Martin Craven Beaufort Gates Pamico Carteret Washington John E. Pechmann Fishing Education Center 7489 Raeford Road Fayettevie, N.C ncwidife.org/pechmann New Hanover u 1Tyrre Get N.C. Widife Update news incuding season dates, bag imits, egisative updates and more deivered to your Inbox from the N.C. Widife Resources Commission. Go to ncwidife.org/enews. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY The N.C. Widife Resources Commission is an Equa Opportunity Empoyer. A widife programs are administered for the benefit of a North Caroina citizens without prejudice toward age, sex, race, reigion or nationa origin. Vioations of this pedge may be reported to the Equa Empoyment Officer, 1703 Mai Service Center, Raeigh, NC , Te Pasquotank Perquiman s Camden Hyde Currituck Dare CONTENTS What s New This Season...2 License Information...3 Genera Information...3 License Requirements and Exceptions...3 License Type Descriptions...5 License Type Charts...11 Disabed Sportsman Information...14 The Widife Endowment Fund...14 Lifetime Hunting and Inand Fishing Licenses...14 Inand Fishing Reguations and Information...16 Genera Information...16 Inand Game Fish...16 Warmwater Game Fish...18 Mountain Trout...21 Pubic Mountain Trout Waters...22 Nongame Fish...28 Fish Consumption Advisories...33 Misceaneous Prohibitions...35 Other Fishing Information...36 Nongame Reguations and Information...39 Trapping Reguations and Information...40 Hunting Reguations and Information...42 Manner of Taking...42 Hunting on Federa Lands...44 Big Game...46 Bear...46 Deer...47 Wid Turkey...57 Season Maps...48 Big Game Harvest and Reporting...57 Sma Game and Other Seasons...58 Migratory Birds...61 Federa Reguations...63 Game Lands...65 Game Lands License...65 Game Lands Restrictions...65 Disabed Access and Disabed Sportsman Programs...67 Either-Sex Seasons and Other Rues...68 Loca Laws...76 Loca Fox Laws...76 Hunting and Trapping...76 Big Game Harvest Reports...83 Sunrise-Sunset Tabe...88 COVER PHOTOS (cockwise from eft): A white-taied buck icks a branch to eave its scent; George Ramey gives his grandson Ramey Gardner a heping hand with his shotgun; Vounteers ike Lynne Frady (eft) hep make the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman program a success; Jeffrey Thomas pus in a bass on Jordan Lake. A photographs by Meissa McGaw. 420,000 COPIES of this pubic document were printed at a cost of $74, or $ per copy. Printed on 100% post-consumer recyced paper. 2016/17 1

4 What s new this season. As part of the Commission s ongoing effort to keep you informed, we are reserving this page of the digest each year to identify significant reguatory, egisative and agency-reated changes that you shoud be aware of each season. Pease note that the information found on this page is not a compete ist of reguatory changes. For your convenience, a reguation changes appear throughout the digest in RED. Foowing is a ist of significant changes for the season: GAME LANDS Hoy Sheter Game Land in Pender County is now designated as a 6-day-per-week game and. However, the use of dogs for taking deer and bear is restricted to Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year s days. Refer to page 71 for additiona information. HUNTING It is unawfu to take a back bear cub weighing ess than 75 pounds. This minimum weight imit is an increase from previous years. Refer to page 46 for additiona information. The number of days hunters can use unprocessed foods to take back bears has been expanded. Refer to page 47 for additiona information. The back bear hunting season in Brunswick and Coumbus counties is the second Monday in November through January 2. Refer to page 46 for additiona information. Waterfow and webess migratory game bird season dates and bag imits have been set and are printed in this Digest. Refer to page 61 for season dates and bag imits. Sea duck seasons have been changed to compy with federa guideines. Refer to page 61 for information. Due to a change in federa rues, youth ages 16 and 17 are now aowed to participate during two specia youth waterfow hunting days. Previousy, participation was imited to youth under the age of 16. Youth Waterfow Hunting Days for the season have been set for Feb. 4 and Feb. 11, Those ages 16 and 17 hunting on youth waterfow days must possess the appropriate vaid hunting and priviege icenses, federa duck stamp, and HIP certification. Refer to pages 62 and 65 for additiona information. OTHER The N. C. Widife Resources Commission estabished the NC Turn-In-Poachers (TIP) reward program as a sient witness, anti-poaching program that encourages the pubic to report any suspicious activity or knowedge about poaching vioations. The muti-optioned reporting system is avaiabe 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Refer to page 15 for information on the Reward Program and how to report vioations. On Juy 8, 2015 the Outdoor Heritage Act was signed into aw, which created an Outdoor Heritage Advisory Counci and estabishes a trust fund. The North Caroina Outdoor Heritage Trust Fund wi provide for the expansion of opportunities for youth, ages 16 and younger, of outdoor recreationa activities, incuding but not imited to fishing, horseback riding, camping, hiking and bird watching in order to preserve North Caroina s outdoor heritage for future generations. Refer to page 89 to earn more about supporting North Caroina s outdoor heritage. The N. C. Widife Resources Commission offers free courses, seminars and workshops to novice sportsmen and women and educators. Courses offered incude: Becoming an Outdoors Woman, Hunting and Fishing Ski-based Seminars, Hunter and Boater Education Courses, Widife and Educator Workshops. To earn more, visit ncwidife.org/earning/coursesseminarsworkshops. Subscribe to N.C. Widife Update at ncwidife.org/enews. This eectronic newsetter is designed to keep North Caroina hunters, angers and other outdoor enthusiasts informed of agency-reated news. Sent to subscribers on a periodic basis, the newsetter contains information on hunting, fishing, trapping and boating, egisative updates, news reeases, casses, workshops and other events hosted or sponsored by the N.C. Widife Resources Commission /17

5 Genera Information The services that the North Caro ina Widife Resources Commission provides to the pubic are financed primariy through the sae of icenses, which incude hunt ing, fishing, trapping and other icenses. The var ious types of icenses sod by the Commission differ with respect to the activ ities they authorize, where and when the activities occur, and where the icense-hoder resides. This section pro - vides some gen era information about these icenses, foowed by detaied sum maries of the various icenses avaiabe, the privieges they authorize and the associated fees. A icenses are nontrans ferabe. Purchasing Licenses You can purchase a icense for immediate use in four ways as isted beow. A $2 transaction fee may be appied to your tota order at time of purchase. Visit a widife service agent Most icenses, incuding ife - time icenses, can be obtained from your oca widife service agent. Be prepared to present your vaid driver icense or state identification card. Visit us onine at ncwidife.org Most icenses are avai abe for purchase onine using a computer or mobie device. Phone Have a pen, paper, VISA or MasterCard, and WRC customer number handy. A icenses may be obtained directy from the Widife Resources Com mission in person at NCSU Centennia Campus, 1751 Varsity Drive, Raeigh, NC or by mai. Repacement Licenses To repace a icense that becomes worn, ost or destroyed, ca , go to ncwidife.org, or visit a widife service agent. A $5 fee is charged for the repacement icense. A $2 transaction fee may be appied to your tota order at time of purchase. License Information For more information on icenses, obtaining icense appications or obtaining a ist of widife ser vice agents nearest you, visit us onine at ncwidife.org, ca us at , or write to this address: NCWRC, 1707 Mai Service Center, Raeigh, NC Reciproca Fishing License Agreements A reciproca fishing icense agree ment is in effect between North Caroina and each of the states isted beow. The agreement provides for the foowing: A state wide hook-and-ine fishing icenses obtainabe from either North Caroina or the respective state are honored on certain boundary waters as noted: Georgia The agreement with Georgia covers fishing from boats not anchored to the shore or to a pier or boat dock connecting to the shore on Chatuge Reservoir incuding a tributaries that are accessibe by boat from the main body of the reservoir. Tennessee The agreement with Tennessee covers the stateine por tion of Sick Rock Creek and boat fishing on Caderwood Reservoir. Virginia The agreement with Virginia covers the Dan River east of the Union Street Dam in Danvie, the Staunton River east of the mouth of Difficut Creek, and Kerr and Gaston reservoirs and their tribu taries that are accessibe by boat. The agreement aso covers that portion of the New River between the confuence of the North and South forks of the New River in North Caroina (Aeghany County) and the confuence of the New and Litte rivers in Virginia (Grayson County). No reciproca agreements exist between North Caroina and South Caroina that provide for honoring the other state s fishing icenses on any boundary waters. LICENSE REQUIREMENTS AND EXCEPTIONS License Identification Requirements To show entitement to a icense issued by the Widife Resources Commission, any one exercising the privieges conveyed by the icense sha carry a picture identification card and show it to any widife enforce - ment officer upon request. The picture identification card shoud incude the icense-hoder s correct name, address and date of birth. (A North Caroina Driver License or Department of Motor Vehices identification card is acceptabe.) Residency Definitions and Requirements Resident You are considered a resident if you have resided in the state for six months or have been domicied (estabished a perma - nent residence) for 60 days. When residency is used to estabish eigibiity, the appicant must compete a Certificate of Residency, avaiabe from a widife service agent or the Widife Resources Commission, certifying that he has maintained his residence in a county of the state for at east 60 days with the intent to reside there permanenty or indefinitey. Individuas caiming residency in another state cannot caim to be a resident in NC regardess of whether they own property, pay property tax, pay utiity bis, etc., in NC. Residency can ony be estabished in one state. Students Nonresident students may purchase a resident icense whie attending a university, coege or community coege in North Caroina. When pur chasing your icense from a widife service agent, you must show your vaid student identification. Miitary Stationed In NC Nonresident members of the U.S. Armed Forces (incuding their spouses and chidren under 18) who are stationed in the state are deemed residents of the state and of the counties in which they reside for the purpose of purchasing resident icenses. Miitary Stationed Outside NC Members of the U.S. Armed Forces on active duty outside the State of North Caroina sha be deemed an individua resident of the State for the purpose of purchasing short-term and annua hunting, fishing and trapping icenses. Nonresident Nonresident status appies to anyone who does not ive in the state of North Caroina, with the exceptions noted above (students and miitary). Hunter Education Course Requirement Except as specified beow, on or after Juy 1, 2013, a person, regardess of age, may not purchase a hunting icense in this State without producing one of the foowing, a hunter education certificate of competency, a NC hunting heritage apprentice permit, or a NC hunting icense issued prior to Juy 1, A person who wishes to purchase a ifetime icense need not compy with the requirements above in order to purchase that icense, so ong as the person does not hunt uness they have successfuy competed the hunter education course or they are accompanied by an adut at east 18 years of age who is icensed to hunt in NC and that the icensed adut maintains a proximity to the hunter which enabes the adut to monitor the activities of the hunter by remaining within sight and hearing distance at a times without the use of eectronic devices. Hunter education courses are offered in a 100 counties, year-round. Courses incude instruction on hunter ethics and responsibiity, conservation and widife management, firearms, surviva and first aid, as we as speciaty hunting and tree stand safety. For more information pertaining to hunter education courses, visit us onine at ncwidife.org, or write to the NCWRC Widife Education Division, 1712 Mai Service Center, Raeigh, NC Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED. 2016/17 3 LICENSE INFORMATION

6 LICENSE INFORMATION Hunting Heritage Apprentice Permit This permit is free of charge and is required at the time a hunting icense is purchased for those who have not hed a NC hunting icense prior to Juy 1, 2013 or who have not satisfactoriy com peted the hunter education course requirements. This permit authorizes the permittee to hunt if accompanied by an adut at east 18 years of age who is icensed to hunt in this State, or if accompanied by an adut andhoder or spouse exempted from the hunting icense require ment as defined by aw, provided the icensee is hunting on the andhoder s and. Accompanied means that the icensed adut maintains a proximity that enabes the adut to monitor the activities of the apprentice by remaining within sight and hearing distance at a times, without use of eectronic devices. This permit is vaid ony for the term of the hunting icense purchased under the authority of the permit. Big Game Harvest Report Card Requirement Big game harvest report cards aways expire on June 30 of each year. If your hunt - ing icense and big game hunting priviege icense are sti vaid after the big game harvest report card expires, you may obtain a repenishment card from either the Wid ife Resources Commis - sion or any widife service agent. Lifetime icense-hoders aso may obtain the big game harvest report card by going onine at ncwidife.org, caing , or visiting a wid ife service agent. Persons exempt by aw from the big game hunt ing icense must obtain a License-Exempt Big Game Harvest Report Card for icense-exempt hunters from a wid ife service agent or by caing Repenish and exempt big game harvest report cards are issued at no charge when obtained directy from the Widife Resources Commission. Those issued at a widife service agent ocation are subject to a $2 transaction fee. For more information on icense exceptions, refer to the Exceptions to License Require ments section. Autho rization numbers for big game animas, taken prior to receiving the big game harvest report card via the mai (when icense is purchased by teephone), must be recorded and avai abe for inspection. Once the harvest report card is received by mai, the big game ki authorization number must be recorded on the harvest report card and the card vaidated for the appro priate anima. For more information on big game reporting, refer to the Big Game Harvest and Reporting section on page 57. Bear Management E-Stamp Hunters must procure a Bear Management E-Stamp before taking any bear within the State. Individuas who purchased a ifetime icense with big game privieges prior to Juy 1, 2014 and those individuas exempt from the hunting icense requirement, uness otherwise specified, may obtain a Bear Management E-Stamp at no charge when obtained directy from the Widife Resources Commission. Those issued at a widife service agent ocation are subject to a $2 transaction fee. For more information on the Bear Management E-Stamp, refer to page 9. HIP Certification Requirement A icensed hunters hunt ing migratory game birds (doves, rais, woodcocks, gainue, snipes or water fow) in North Caroina are required to have a certificate of par ticipation in the federa Harvest Information Program (HIP). This certification can be obtained by going onine at ncwidife.org, caing , or visiting a wid ife service agent. HIP certifications are issued at no charge when obtained directy from the Widife Resources Commission. Those issued at a widife service agent ocation are subject to a $2 transaction fee. Persons exempt by aw from the hunt ing icense require - ment are not required to obtain the HIP certification. Federa Duck Stamp In addition to the North Caroina water - fow priviege, waterfow hunters 16 years of age and oder are required to carry on their person the federa duck stamp, signed in ink across the face. The federa duck stamp expires June 30 of each year. Stamps may be ordered from Juy 1 to Apri 1 each year onine at ncwidife.org, by caing , or visiting a widife service agent. At the time of purchase, the customer wi be provided a proof-of-purchase receipt for a Federa Duck E-Stamp which authorizes the same privieges as the physica duck stamp for up to 45 days or unti the physica stamp is received in the mai. Refer to page 9 for more information. Exceptions to License Requirements Genera A andowner or person easing and primariy for cutivation, their spouse, and dependents under 18 residing with them, may hunt, trap and fish on such and without a icense. A resident of this state who is a member of the U.S. Armed Forces serving outside N.C., or who is on fu-time mi itary duty outside the state in a reserve component of the U.S. Armed Forces is exempt from hunting, inand and coasta fish ing icense require - ments whie on eave in this state for 30 days or ess. When hunting or fishing under this exemption you must carry, on your person your miitary ID card and a copy of the offi cia docu ment confirm - ing you are on eave from a duty station outside of N.C. Those hunting bear must purchase a Bear Management E-Stamp. You must aso compy with a report ing and hunter safety requirements as mandated by the Commission and purchase a federa duck stamp if waterfow hunt ing. Individuas exempt from the requirements of a hunting icense must obtain a License-Exempt Big Game Harvest Report Card when hunting deer, bear or wid turkey. Those hunting bear must aso obtain a Bear Management E-Stamp. Individuas exempt from hunt ing and fishing icense requirements must adhere to designated seasons and imits. Hunting Youth under age 16 are exempt from the requirement of a hunt - ing icense provided they compy with the foowing: Youth who have not obtained a Certificate of Competency showing their competion of the hunter safety course must be accompanied by a propery icensed adut when hunting. Youth who have obtained this certificate, may hunt without being accompanied by an adut, but must carry their certificate whie hunting. Youths exempt from the hunting icense requirement must obtain a License- Exempt Big Game Har vest Report Card when hunting deer, bear or wid turkey. Youth hunting bear must aso obtain a Bear Management E-Stamp. Fishing Youth under age 16 are exempt from the requirement of a fishing icense and trout priviege icense. The game ands icense is not required to fish in any waters on game ands or Widife Conservation Areas. An inand fishing icense is not required to fish in a private pond. A private pond is a body of water arising within and ying whoy upon the ands of a singe owner or a singe group of joint owners or tenants in common, and from which fish cannot escape, and into which fish of ega size cannot enter from pubic waters at any time. A pond or ake ocated on and owned by a pubic body such as a state-supported university or a governmenta entity is not a private pond. Juy 4th is decared FREE FISHING DAY, and a fishing icense and trout priviege icense are not required in any pubic waters, incuding coasta waters, on this date. Residents with a vaid Unified Subsistence Inand/Coasta Recreationa Fishing License Waiver are exempt from the require ment of a basic inand (does not incude trout fishing) and coasta recreationa fishing icense /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

7 HUNTING AND FISHING COMBINATION LICENSES LICENSE TYPE DESCRIPTIONS PURCHASE YOUR LICENSE ONLINE AT ncwidife.org Foowing is a ist of annua and ifetime combination hunting and fishing icenses. Priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications authorize a particuar hunting or inand fishing activity not incuded with a basic icense type. Privieges may be purchased separatey if the purchaser hods a vaid basic icense. Basic icenses do not incude privieges such as big game hunting, bear hunting, hunting or trapping on game ands, hunting for waterfow, or fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Refer to page 9 for a compete ist of priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications. A $2 transaction fee may be added to your tota order (NCGS B). ANNUAL LICENSES Additiona priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications may be required with the icenses isted beow. Refer to page 9 for more information. Uness otherwise specified, annua icenses, priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications are vaid for 12 months from the date of purchase. Combination Hunting and Inand Fishing (basic): Statewide hunting and inand fishing for resi dents during a icense term. Incudes fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. Sportsman: Statewide hunting and inand fishing for residents during a icense term. Incudes the privieges of hunting for big game, hunting on game ands, hunting for water fow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp), fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. Unified Sportsman/Coasta Recreationa Fishing: Statewide hunting, inand and coasta recreationa fishing for residents during a icense term. Incudes the privieges of hunting for big game, hunting on game ands, hunting for waterfow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp), fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. Resident Nonresident $25 N/A $50 N/A $65 N/A LICENSE INFORMATION LIFETIME LICENSES Additiona priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications may be required with the icenses isted beow. Refer to page 9 for more information. Lifetime icenses are vaid for the ifetime of the icense-hoder. Uness otherwise specified, priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications are vaid for 12 months from date of purchase. Senior License Eigibiity: Residents born on or before Aug. 1, 1953 are eigibe to purchase a senior ifetime icense when they turn 65 years of age. Those born after Aug. 1, 1953 are eigibe to purchase a senior ifetime icense when they turn 70 years of age. Sportsman (ages 12 & oder): Statewide hunting and inand fishing. Incudes hunting for big game, $500 $1,200 hunting on game ands, hunting for waterfow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp), fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. Unified Sportsman/Coasta Recreationa Fishing (ages 12 & oder): Statewide hunting, inand and $675 $1,550 coasta recreationa fishing. Incudes hunting for big game, hunting on game ands, hunting for waterfow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp), fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. Sportsman (ages 1 11): Statewide hunting and inand fishing. Incudes hunting for big game, hunting $350 $350 on game ands, hunting for waterfow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp), fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. Unified Sportsman/Coasta Recreationa Fishing (ages 1 11): Statewide hunting, inand and coasta $450 $450 recreationa fishing. Incudes hunting for big game, hunting on game ands, hunting for waterfow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp), fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. Sportsman (under age 1): Statewide hunting and inand fishing. Incudes hunting for big game, hunting $200 $200 on game ands, hunting for waterfow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp), fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. Unified Sportsman/Coasta Recreationa Fishing (under age 1): Statewide hunting, inand and coasta $275 $275 recreationa fishing. Incudes hunting for big game, hunting on game ands, hunting for waterfow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp), fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. Senior Sportsman (see above for eigibiity requirements): Statewide hunting and inand fishing for $15 N/A residents. Incudes hunting for big game, hunting on game ands, hunting for waterfow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp), fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. Unified Senior Sportsman/Coasta Recreationa Fishing (see above for eigibiity requirements): $30 N/A Statewide hunting, inand and coasta recreationa fishing. Incudes hunting for big game, hunting on game ands, hunting for waterfow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp), fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. Lifetime Licenses continued on page /17 5

8 LICENSE INFORMATION HUNTING AND FISHING COMBINATION LICENSES (continued) PURCHASE YOUR LICENSE ONLINE AT ncwidife.org LIFETIME LICENSES Additiona priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications may be required with the icenses Resident Nonresident isted beow. Basic icenses do not incude privieges such as big game hunting, bear hunting, hunting or trapping on game ands, hunting for waterfow, or fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Refer to page 9 for more information. Lifetime icenses are vaid for the ifetime of the icense-hoder. Uness otherwise specified, priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications are vaid for 12 months from date of purchase. Disabed Veteran Hunting and Inand Fishing (basic): Statewide basic hunting and inand fishing for $10 N/A residents who are 50 percent or more disabed veterans as determined by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Incudes fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. Refer to page 14 for appication instructions. Totay Disabed Hunting and Inand Fishing (basic): Statewide basic hunting and inand fishing for $10 N/A residents who are totay and permanenty disabed as determined by the Socia Security Administration, Civi Service Retirement System, Rairoad Retirement Board, or the N.C. State Retirement System. Incudes fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. Refer to page 14 for appication instructions. Disabed Veteran Sportsman: Statewide hunting and inand fishing for residents who are 50 percent or $100 N/A more disabed as determined by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs. Incudes hunting for big game, hunting on game ands, hunting for waterfow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp), fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. Refer to page 14 for appication instructions. Unified Disabed Veteran Sportsman/Coasta Recreationa Fishing: Statewide hunting, inand and $110 N/A coasta recreationa fishing for residents who are 50 percent or more disabed veterans as determined by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Incudes hunting for big game, hunting on game ands, hunting for waterfow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp), fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. Refer to page 14 for appication instructions. Totay Disabed Sportsman: Statewide hunting and inand fishing for residents who are totay and $100 N/A per manenty disabed as determined by the Socia Security Administration, Civi Service Retirement System, Rairoad Retirement Board, or the N.C. State Retirement System. Incudes hunting for big game, hunting on game ands, hunting for waterfow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp), fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. Refer to page 14 for appication instructions. Unified Totay Disabed Sportsman/Coasta Recreationa Fishing: Statewide hunting, inand and coasta recreationa fishing for residents who are totay and permanenty disabed as determined by the Socia Security Admin istration, Civi Service Retirement System, Rairoad Retirement Board, or the N.C. State Retirement System. Incudes hunting for big game, hunting on game ands, hunting for water fow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp), fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fish - ing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. Refer to page 14 for appication instructions. $110 N/A FISHING LICENSES PURCHASE YOUR LICENSE ONLINE AT ncwidife.org Foowing is a ist of short-term, annua and ifetime fishing icenses. Priviege icenses authorize a particuar inand fishing activity not incuded with the basic icense type. Privieges may be purchased separatey if pur chaser hods a vaid basic icense. These icenses incude fishing in joint waters. Basic fishing icenses do not incude privieges such as fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Refer to page 9 for a compete ist of privieges. Note: Individuas 16 years of age or oder using any type of bait or gear to catch finfish whie fishing in North Caro ina s pubic waters must possess a vaid North Caroina fishing icense. This icense requirement does not appy to private ponds. Individua residents who receive Food Stamps, Medicaid or Work First Famiy Assistance may obtain a written waiver (Annua Subsistence License Waiver) from this fishing icense requirement through their county Department of Socia Services. A $2 transaction fee may be added to your tota order (NCGS B). SHORT-TERM LICENSE Additiona priviege icenses may be required with the icenses isted beow. Resident Nonresident Refer to page 9 for more information. Short-term icenses are vaid for the period specified on the icense. Uness otherwise specified, priviege icenses are vaid 12 months from the date of purchase. State Inand Fishing 10-Day (basic): Statewide inand fishing during the 10-day period specified on $7 $18 the icense. Incudes fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in coasta waters. Coasta Recreationa Fishing 10-Day: Authorizes fishing in coasta and joint waters during the 10-day period specified on the icense. It does not authorize fishing in inand waters. $5 $10 ANNUAL LICENSE Additiona priviege icenses may be required with the icenses isted beow. Refer to page 9 for more information. Uness otherwise specified, annua and priviege icenses are vaid for 12 months from the date of purchase. State Inand Fishing (basic): Statewide inand fishing during a icense term. Incudes fishing in joint $20 $36 waters. It does not incude fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in coasta waters. Coasta Recreationa Fishing: Authorizes fishing in coasta and joint waters during a icense term. $15 $30 It does not authorize fishing in inand waters. Comprehensive Inand Fishing: Statewide inand fishing for residents during a icense term. Incudes fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. $25 N/A /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

9 FISHING LICENSES (continued) PURCHASE YOUR LICENSE ONLINE AT ncwidife.org Unified Inand/Coasta Recreationa Fishing: Statewide inand and coasta recreationa fishing for Resident Nonresident $40 N/A residents during a icense term. Incudes the privieges of fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. Unified Subsistence Inand/Coasta Recreationa Fishing License Waiver: Statewide basic inand FREE N/A and coasta recreationa fishing for residents who receive Medicaid, Food Stamps, or Work First Famiy Assistance through the county Department of Socia Services. Incudes fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters and fishing in trout waters on game ands. License Waiver can be obtained through the County Department of Socia Services upon request. Specia Inand Fishing Devices: Authorizes the taking of nongame fishes from inand waters (does not $75 $500 incude joint and coasta waters) during designated seasons with seines, cast nets, gi nets, dip nets, bow nets, rees, gigs, spear guns, baskets, fish pots, ee pots, traps, and hand-crank eectrofishers where authorized by oca aw. Incudes the sae of these nongame fishes. Taking of nongame fishes with archery equipment is authorized under any of the icenses providing basic hunting or inand fishing privieges. Certain specia devices may be used to take nongame fishes for bait or persona consumption using any vaid icense that provides basic inand fishing privieges. Refer to pages for more information. LICENSE INFORMATION LIFETIME LICENSE Lifetime icenses are vaid for the ifetime of the icense-hoder. Senior License Eigibiity: Residents born on or before Aug. 1, 1953 are eigibe to purchase a senior ifetime icense when they turn 65 years of age. Those born after Aug. 1, 1953 are eigibe to purchase a senior ifetime icense when they turn 70 years of age. State Comprehensive Inand Fishing: Statewide inand fishing. Incudes fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. Unified Inand/Coasta Recreationa Fishing: Statewide inand and coasta recreationa fishing. Incudes fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. Coasta Recreationa Fishing (ages 12 & oder): Authorizes fishing in coasta and joint waters. It does not authorize fishing in inand waters. Coasta Recreationa Fishing (ages 1 11): Authorizes fishing in coasta and joint waters. It does not authorize fishing in inand waters. Coasta Recreationa Fishing (under age 1): Authorizes fishing in coasta and joint waters. It does not authorize fishing in inand waters. Senior Comprehensive Inand Fishing (see above for eigibiity requirements): Statewide inand fishing for residents. Incudes fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. Senior Coasta Recreationa Fishing (see above for eigibiity requirements): Authorizes fishing in coasta and joint waters. It does not authorize fishing in inand waters. Disabed Veteran Inand Fishing: Statewide inand fishing for residents who are 50 percent or more disabed veterans as determined by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Incudes fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. Refer to page 14 for appication instructions. Disabed Veteran Coasta Recreationa Fishing: Authorizes fishing in coasta and joint waters for residents who are 50 percent or more disabed veterans as determined by the Department of Veterans Affairs. It does not authorize fishing in inand waters. Refer to page 14 for appication instructions. Totay Disabed Inand Fishing: Statewide inand fishing for residents who are totay and permanenty disabed as determined by the Socia Security Administration, Civi Service Retirement System, Rairoad Retirement Board, or the N.C. State Retirement System. Incudes fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, fishing in trout waters on game ands, and fishing in joint waters. It does not incude fishing in coasta waters. Refer to page 14 for appication instructions. Totay Disabed Coasta Recreationa Fishing: Authorizes fishing in coasta and joint waters for residents who are totay and permanenty disabed as determined by the Socia Security Administration, Civi Service Retirement System, Rairoad Retirement Board, or the N.C. State Retirement System. It does not authorize fishing in inand waters. Refer to page 14 for appication instructions. Unified Legay Bind Inand/Coasta Recreationa Fishing: Statewide fishing in a pubic waters for residents who have been certified by the Department of Heath and Human Services as being egay bind. Incudes fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters and fishing in trout waters on game ands. Refer to page 14 for appication instructions. Unified Adut Care Home Inand/Coasta Recreationa Fishing: Statewide fishing in a pubic waters for residents of an adut care home. Incudes fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters and fishing in trout waters on game ands. License vaid during time of residency at adut care faciity. Ca to obtain an appication. $250 N/A $450 N/A $250 $500 $150 $150 $100 $100 $15 N/A $15 N/A $10 N/A $10 N/A $10 N/A $10 N/A FREE N/A FREE N/A 2016/17 7

10 LICENSE INFORMATION HUNTING LICENSES PURCHASE YOUR LICENSE ONLINE AT ncwidife.org Foowing is a ist of short-term, annua and ifetime hunting icenses. Priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications authorize a particuar hunting activity not incuded with a basic icense type. Privieges may be pur chased separatey if the purchaser hods a vaid basic icense. Basic hunting icenses do not incude privieges such as big game hunting, bear hunting, hunting or trapping on game ands, or hunting for waterfow. Refer to page 9 for a compete ist of priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications. A $2 transaction fee may be added to your tota order (NCGS B). SHORT-TERM LICENSE Additiona priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications may be required with Resident Nonresident the icenses isted beow. Refer to page 9 for more information. Short-term icenses are vaid for the period specified on the icense. Uness otherwise specified, priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications are vaid 12 months from the date of purchase. If panning to hunt on Sunday, pease indicate this at the time of purchase. State Hunting 10-Day (basic): Statewide hunting for nonresidents during the 10-day period specified on the icense. ANNUAL LICENSE Additiona priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications may be required with the icenses isted beow. Refer to page 9 for more information. Uness otherwise specified, annua icenses, priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications are vaid for 12 months from the date of purchase. N/A $60 $60 GA $75 SC $70 TN $110 VA* State Hunting (basic): Statewide hunting during a icense term. Comprehensive Hunting: Statewide hunting for residents during a icense term. Aso incudes the privieges of hunting for big game, hunting on game ands and hunting for waterfow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp). Controed Hunting Preserve Hunting: Needed for those 16 years of age or oder, regardess of residency, to hunt fox or pen-raised game birds on a icensed commercia hunting preserve. This icense is not necessary for those who hod a vaid Basic Hunting, Comprehensive Hunting, Sportsman, or Lifetime License that authorizes hunting. And ikewise, it is not necessary for those who hod a vaid Controed Hunting Preserve Hunting License to purchase any other hunting icense when hunting on a icensed preserve. $20 $80 $100 GA $125 SC $90 TN $110 VA $36 N/A $20 $20 LIFETIME LICENSE Additiona priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications may be required with the icense isted beow. Refer to page 9 for more information. Lifetime icenses are vaid for the ifetime of the icense-hoder. Uness otherwise specified, priviege icenses, stamps, and certifications are vaid for 12 months from date of purchase. State Comprehensive Hunting: Statewide hunting, hunting for big game, hunting on game ands and hunting for waterfow (does not incude the bear management e-stamp or federa duck stamp). $250 N/A *License fees for residents of Georgia, South Caroina, Tennessee, and Virginia are based on reciproca icensing options. When determining reciproca icense costs, if an equivaent short-term icense option is not avaiabe or the cost of the short-term icense exceeds the annua icense cost, the fee estabished is equa to the annua fee. TRAPPING LICENSES PURCHASE YOUR LICENSE ONLINE AT ncwidife.org ANNUAL LICENSE Additiona priviege icenses may be required with the icense isted beow. Refer to page 9 for more information. Uness otherwise specified, annua and priviege icenses are vaid for 12 months from the date of purchase. A $2 transaction fee may be added to your tota order (NCGS B). Resident Nonresident State Trapping (basic): Statewide trapping during a icense term (does not incude trapping on game ands). $30 $ /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

11 PRIVILEGE LICENSES, STAMPS AND CERTIFICATIONS Annua priviege icenses, stamps and certifica tions authorize particuar hunting or inand fishing activities and must be obtained in addition to the appropriate basic icense. Privieges and stamps may be purchased separatey if the purchaser hods a vaid icense. Uness otherwise specified, priviege icenses, stamps and certifications are vaid for 12 months from the date of purchase. HIP Certification is required for a those panning to hunt migratory game birds, incuding ifetime icense-hoders. A $2 transaction fee may be added to your tota order (NCGS B). HUNTING AND TRAPPING Big Game Hunting License: Needed to hunt deer, bear and wid turkey. Residents must aso purchase a bear management e-stamp to hunt bear. Nonresidents hunting bear must aso purchase the bear hunting icense and bear management e-stamp. Big Game Hunting 10-Day License: Needed to hunt deer, bear and wid turkey during the 10-day period specified on the icense. Nonresidents hunting bear must aso purchase the bear hunting icense and bear management e-stamp. Bear Management E-Stamp: Needed to hunt bear. Resident hunters must possess a vaid hunting icense with big game privieges in addition to this e-stamp. Nonresident hunters must possess a vaid hunting icense, big game priviege icense and bear hunting icense in addition to this e-stamp. Individuas who purchased a ifetime icense with big game privieges prior to Juy 1, 2014 do not have to purchase this additiona e-stamp; however they must obtain a no-cost e-stamp to hunt bear. Bear Hunting License (Nonresident): Needed by nonresident icense hoders, in addition to the hunting icense, big game priviege icense, and bear management e-stamp, to hunt bear. Nonresident individuas who purchased a resident or nonresident ifetime icense prior to May 24, 1994 do not have to purchase this additiona icense to hunt bear. Bonus Anteress Deer License: Aows the harvest of two additiona anteress deer per report card in counties or parts of counties with a maximum either-sex season or any municipaity enroed in the Urban Archery Season. Not vaid for use on game ands. Expires June 30 of each year. Refer to the Big Game section for more information. Game Lands License: Needed to hunt or trap on game ands. Refer to the Game Lands section for other uses that require a game ands icense. State Waterfow Hunting License: Needed to hunt waterfow. Federa Duck Stamp: The Federa Duck Stamp may be ordered onine at ncwidife.org, by caing or visiting a widife service agent from Juy 1 to Apri 1 of each year. Those who order the stamp onine, by phone or at a widife service agent wi be provided a proof-of-purchase receipt for a Federa Duck E-Stamp that is vaid for 45 days from the date of purchase and immediatey authorizes the same privieges as the physica Federa Duck Stamp. The e-stamp proof-of-purchase is nationay recognized as a vaid Federa migratory bird hunting and conservation stamp, is vaid in any other state, and must be carried on your person when exercising the privieges authorized. The physica Federa Duck Stamp wi be maied to you within 45 days of the order date. Upon receipt of the physica stamp, you must sign and carry it on your person when exercising the privieges authorized. The Federa Duck Stamp expires June 30 of each year. HIP Certification (federa requirement): Needed to hunt migratory game birds (waterfow, doves, rais, gainue, snipe and woodcock). Persons exempt from the hunting icense requirement are not required to obtain the HIP certification. Hunting Heritage Apprentice Permit: This permit is needed to purchase a hunting icense by those who have not hed a NC hunting icense prior to Juy 1, 2013 or who have not satisfactoriy competed the hunter education course requirements. This permit authorizes the permittee to hunt if accompanied by an adut at east 18 years of age who is icensed to hunt in this State, or if accompanied by an adut andhoder or spouse exempted from the hunting icense requirement as defined by aw, provided the icensee is hunting on the andhoder s and. Accompanied means that the icensed adut maintains a proximity that enabes the adut to monitor the activities of the apprentice by remaining within sight and hearing distance at a times, without use of eectronic devices. This permit is vaid ony for the term of the hunting icense purchased under the authority of the permit. FISHING Trout Fishing License: Needed to fish in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Incudes trout fishing on game ands. *License fees for residents of Georgia, South Caroina, Tennessee, and Virginia are based on reciproca icensing options. When determining reciproca icense costs, if an equivaent short-term icense option is not avaiabe or the cost of the short-term icense exceeds the annua icense cost, the fee estabished is equa to the annua fee. Resident Nonresident $13 $80 $195 GA $100 SC $160 TN $85 VA N/A $60 $195 GA* $100 SC* $105 TN $85 VA* $10 $10 N/A $225 $10 $10 $15 $15 $13 $13 $26.50 $26.50 FREE FREE FREE FREE $13 $ /17 9 LICENSE INFORMATION

12 LICENSE INFORMATION OTHER LICENSES AND PERMITS The Widife Resources Commission offers a wide range of specia icenses and permits to serve the pubic. For information on the icenses or permits isted beow or to obtain an appication, you may visit us onine at ncwidife.org, ca us at or write to NCWRC, 1707 Mai Service Center, Raeigh, NC A $2 transaction fee may be added to your order tota (NCGS B). Bobcat/Otter Tags: Needed to se or otherwise transfer ownership of bobcat or otter car casses or pets. A bobcat and otter car casses or pets sha be propery tagged within 30 days foowing the cose of the appi cabe hunting or trapping season. Once the season coses, the Commission wi ship tags for another 23 days ony. Controed Hunting Preserve Hunting: Needed for those 16 years of age or oder, regardess of residency, to hunt fox or pen-raised game birds on a icensed commercia hunting preserve. This icense is not necessary for those who hod a vaid Basic Hunting, Comprehensive Hunting, Sportsman, or Lifetime License that authorizes hunting. And ikewise, it is not necessary for those who hod a vaid Controed Hunting Preserve Hunting License to purchase any other hunting icense when hunting on a icensed preserve. Disabed Access Permit: Authorizes persons with imited physica mobiity to operate vehi ces, incuding ATVs, on any Commission-maintained road open for vehicuar trave, those trais posted for vehicuar trave and ony on OPEN-GATED or UNGATED roads, otherwise cosed to vehicuar traffic on game ands isted in the Disabed Access Program and to have access to specia disabed hunting binds. It does not authorize operation of vehices on cosed roads on game ands not isted in the Disabed Access Program. One companion may accompany the disabed person, provided that person possesses the companion card issued to the disabed hunter. The disabed hunter wi aso be issued a vehi ce access card. The permit is vaid as ong as the quaifying disabiity persists. For more infor mation, refer to the Disabed Sportsman and Disabed Access Program sections on pages 14, 67and 68. This permit is not a icense. It does not authorize hunting, fishing, or trapping activities. Resident Nonresident $2.20 ea. $2.20 ea. $20 $20 FREE FREE Disabed Sportsman Hunt Certification: This is a medica certification used to estabish eigibiity for participation in disabed hunt opportunities. This certification is ony necessary when the appicant does not possess a ifetime disabed veteran or totay disabed icense. This certification is not a icense; therefore, a vaid hunting icense, in addition to the hunt permit, is required when participating in a disabed hunt opportunity. For more information, refer to the Disabed Sportsman section on page 14. FREE FREE Faconry: Needed to hunt by the use of any raptor. A basic or comprehensive hunting or sportsman s icense is needed in addition to the faconry icense. License expires June 30 of each year. Fox Tags: Needed to se or otherwise transfer ownership of a fox carcass or pet. A fox carcasses or pets sha be propery tagged within 30 days foowing the cose of the appicabe hunting or trapping season. Once the season coses, the Commission wi ship tags for another 23 days ony. Fur Deaer: Authorizes buying and seing furs anywhere in North Caroina. License expires June 30 each year. Fur Deaer Station: Authorizes the icense-hoder and his or her empoyee(s) to buy or se furs at an estabished ocation in North Caroina and under the supervision of the icense-hoder. License expires June 30 each year. Hunting/Inand Fishing Guide: Needed to guide others for a fee. In cases where persons for hire are being transported by vesse; a vesse-for-hire icense may be required by the U.S. Coast Guard. Specia Landhoder and Guest Fishing License: May be purchased by the andhoder of private property bordering inand or joint fishing waters, incuding Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. This icense sha entite the andhoder, and guests of the andhoder, to fish from the shore or any pier or dock originating from the property without any additiona inand fishing icense. May not be used for commercia purposes. A guest is defined as any individua invited by the andhoder to fish from the property at no charge. A charge incudes any fee, assessment, dues, rent, or other consideration which must be paid, whether directy or indirecty, in order to be aowed to fish from the property, regardess of the stated reason for such charge. License vaid 12 months from date of issue. Taxidermy: Authorizes persons to practice taxidermy invoving widife for any compensa tion. License expires Dec. 31 each year. For information on federa taxidermy permits, ca $10 $10 $2.25 ea. $2.25 ea. $60 $300 $120 N/A $15 $150 $100 $100 $10 N/A /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

13 L I C E N S E S X indicates the privieges authorized for each icense type. RESIDENT HUNTING, INLAND FISHING AND TRAPPING LICENSE TYPES and Associated Priviege Licenses Refer to License Type Section for a compete description of icense types and privieges. Refer to page 13 for a ist of Resident Coasta Fishing and Unified Sportsman/Coasta Fishing icense types. P R I V I L E G E S HUNTING Big Game Basic Hunting OTHER Deer Bear Turkey Squirre Rabbit Migratory Game Birds (9) Quai Grouse Pheasant Raccoon Opossum Bobcat Crow Beaver Groundhog Coyote Controed Shooting Preserves Waterfow (3) (9) Game Lands (hunting) Trapping Game Lands (trapping) (8) Basic Inand Fishing Pubic Mtn. Trout Waters Specia Device Fishing Nongame Fish Bow & Arrow Hunt\ Inand Fish Guide Price Hunting & Inand Fishing $25 Annua Combo Hunt & Inand Fish (basic) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $50 Annua Sportsman (10) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $200 Lifetime Sportsman (under age 1) (10) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $350 Lifetime Sportsman (ages 1-11) (10) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $500 Lifetime Sportsman (ages 12 & oder)(10) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $15 Senior Sportsman (10) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $10 Disabed Veteran (basic) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $10 Totay Disabed (basic) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $100 Disabed Sportsman (10) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Hunting $20 Annua State Hunting (basic) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $36 Annua Comprehensive Hunting (10) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $250 Lifetime Comprehensive Hunting (10) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Additiona Hunting Privieges $13 Big Game (2) (10) X X X $10 Bear Management E-Stamp (1) X $15 Game Lands (2) (8) X X $13 State Waterfow (2) (3) X Free HIP Certification (6) (7) X X Inand Fishing $7 10-Day Inand Fishing (basic) X X $20 Annua State Inand Fishing (basic) X X $25 Annua Comprehensive Inand Fishing X X X $250 Lifetime Comprehensive Inand Fishing X X X Additiona Inand Fishing Priviege $13 Trout Fishing (4) X Trapping $30 Annua State Trapping (basic) (8) X Other Licenses $15 Annua Hunt/Inand Fish Guide X $20 Controed Hunting Preserve (5) X $75 Specia Inand Fishing Device X LICENSE INFORMATION (1) Must aso possess a vaid hunting and big game icense. (2) Must aso possess the appropriate basic hunting icense. (3) Must aso possess a federa duck stamp. (4) Must aso possess a vaid inand fishing icense. (5) This icense may be used without a hunting icense. (6) Required to hunt federa migratory & waterfow birds. Additiona Information (7) Must aso possess either a basic hunting, comprehensive hunting or sportsman s icense. (8) Trapping on game ands requires a Game Lands License and a Trapping License. (9) Must have the HIP Certification. (10) Must aso possess a bear management e-stamp to hunt bear. = Lifetime Licenses 2016/17 11

14 LICENSE INFORMATION NONRESIDENT HUNTING, INLAND FISHING AND TRAPPING LICENSE TYPES and Associated Priviege Licenses Refer to License Type Section for a compete description of icense types and privieges. Refer to page 13 for a ist of Nonresident Coasta Fishing and Unified Sportsman/Coasta Fishing icense types. L I C E N S E S X indicates the privieges authorized for each icense type. P R I V I L E G E S HUNTING Big Game Basic Hunting OTHER Deer Bear Turkey Squirre Rabbit Migratory Game Birds (9) Quai Grouse Pheasant Raccoon Opossum Bobcat Crow Beaver Groundhog Coyote Controed Shooting Preserves Waterfow (3) (9) Game Lands (hunting) Trapping Game Lands (trapping) (8) Basic Inand Fishing Pubic Mtn. Trout Waters Specia Device Fishing Nongame Fish Bow & Arrow Hunt\ Inand Fish Guide Price Hunting & Inand Fishing $200 Lifetime Sportsman (under age 1) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $350 Lifetime Sportsman (ages 1-11) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $1,200 Lifetime Sportsman (ages 12 & oder) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Hunting $60 10-Day State Hunting (basic) (10) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $80 Annua State Hunting (basic) (10) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Additiona Hunting Privieges $60 10-Day Big Game (2) (10) X X $80 Big Game (season) (2) (10) X X $225 Bear (1) X $10 Bear Management E-Stamp (11) X $15 Game Lands (2) (8) X X $13 State Waterfow (2) (3) X Free HIP Certification (6) (7) X X Inand Fishing $18 10-Day Inand Fishing (basic) X X $36 Annua State Inand Fishing (basic) X X Additiona Inand Fishing Priviege $13 Trout Fishing (4) X Trapping $125 Annua State Trapping (basic) (8) X Other Licenses $150 Annua Hunt/Inand Fish Guide X $20 Controed Hunting Preserve (5) X $500 Specia Inand Fishing Device X (1) Must aso possess a vaid hunting icense, big game icense, and bear management e-stamp. (2) Must aso possess the appropriate basic hunting icense. (3) Must aso possess a federa duck stamp. (4) Must aso possess a vaid inand fishing icense. (5) This icense may be used without a hunting icense. (6) Required to hunt federa migratory & waterfow birds. Additiona Information (7) Must aso possess either a basic hunting or sportsman s icense. (8) Trapping on game ands requires a Game Lands License and a Trapping License. (9) Must have the HIP Certification. (10) Reciproca icense fees appy to Georgia, South Caroina, Ten nessee and Virginia residents. Refer to pages 8 and 9 for a ist of fees. (11) Must aso possess a vaid hunting icense, big game icense, and bear icense. = Lifetime Licenses /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

15 UNIFIED HUNTING, INLAND AND COASTAL RECREATIONAL FISHING LICENSE (CRFL) TYPES and Associated Priviege Licenses L I C E N S E S X indicates the privieges authorized for each icense type. P R I V I L E G E S HUNTING Big Game Basic Hunting OTHER Deer Bear Turkey Squirre Rabbit Migratory Game Birds (5) Quai Grouse Pheasant Raccoon Opossum Bobcat Crow Beaver Groundhog Coyote Controed Shooting Preserves Waterfow (5) (6) Game Lands (hunting) Trapping Game Lands (trapping) (7) Basic Inand Fishing Pubic Mtn. Trout Waters Specia Device Fishing Nongame Fish Bow & Arrow Coasta Recreationa Fishing RESIDENT LICENSE TYPES Price Hunting, Inand & CRFL $65 Unified Annua Sportsman/CRFL (8) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $675 Unified Lifetime Adut Sptmn/CRFL (8) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $450 Unified Lifetime Youth Sptmn/CRFL (8) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $275 Unified Lifetime Infant Sptmn/CRFL (8) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $30 Unified Senior Sportsman/CRFL (8) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $110 Unified Disabed Vet Sportsman/CRFL (8) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $110 Unified Totay Disabed Sptmn/CRFL (8) X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Additiona Hunting Privieges Free HIP Certification (1) X X $10 Bear Management E-Stamp (2) X Fishing $5 10-Day CRFL X $15 Annua CRFL X $40 Annua Unified Inand/CRFL X X X X Free Annua Subsistence Inand/CRFL Waiver X X X $250 Lifetime Adut CRFL X $150 Lifetime Youth CRFL X $100 Lifetime Infant CRFL X $15 Senior CRFL X $10 Disabed Vet CRFL X $10 Totay Disabed CRFL X $450 Lifetime Unified Inand/CRFL X X X X Additiona Inand Fishing Priviege $13 Trout Fishing (3) X LICENSE INFORMATION NONRESIDENT LICENSE TYPES Price Hunting, Inand & CRFL $1,550 Lifetime Adut Sportsman/CRFL X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $450 Lifetime Youth Sportsman/CRFL X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X $275 Lifetime Infant Sportsman/CRFL X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Additiona Hunting Privieges Free HIP Certification (1) X X $225 Bear (4) X $10 Bear Management E-Stamp (9) X Fishing $10 10-Day CRFL X $30 Annua CRFL X $500 Lifetime Adut CRFL X $150 Lifetime Youth CRFL X $100 Lifetime Infant CRFL X Additiona Information (1) Required to hunt federa migratory & waterfow birds. Must aso possess either a basic hunting, comprehensive hunting, or sportsman s icense. (2) Must aso possess a vaid hunting and big game icense. (3) Must aso possess a vaid inand fishing icense. (4) Must aso possess a vaid hunting icense, big game icense, and bear management stamp. (5) Must aso have the HIP Certification. (6) Must aso possess a federa duck stamp. (7) Trapping on game ands requires a Game Lands License and a Trapping License. (8) Must aso possess a bear management e-stamp to hunt bear. (9) Must aso possess a vaid hunting icense, big game icense, and bear icense. = Lifetime Licenses 2016/17 13

16 THE WILDLIFE ENDOWMENT FUND DISABLED SPORTSMAN INFORMATION Genera Information The N. C. Widife Resources Com mi s sion does not honor disabed icenses or permits from other states. Disabed icenses and permits must be obtained directy from the Widife Resources Commission. To obtain a disabed icense or permit appication, visit us onine at ncwidife.org, ca us at , or write to NCWRC, 1707 Mai Ser vice Center, Raeigh, NC Disabed Sportsman Program Information The Widife Resources Com mission has estabished increased access and opportunities for persons with disabiities to hunt on agency game ands and other ands. A brief description and the quai - fica tions for each are provided beow. To obtain an appication, you may visit us onine at ncwidife.org, ca us at , or write to NCWRC, Disabed Sportsman Program, 1707 Mai Service Center, Raeigh, NC For specific informa tion on disabed hunt opportunities, visit ncwidife.org/permithunt. The Disabed Access Permit authorizes persons with imited physica mobiity to operate vehi ces, incuding ATVs, on any Commission-maintained road open for vehicuar trave, those trais posted for vehicuar trave and ony on OPEN-GATED or UNGATED roads, otherwise cosed to vehicuar traffic on game ands isted in the Disabed Access Program, and aows access to specia disabed hunting binds designated for hunters with dis - abiities. See page 67 for a ist of game ands or designated areas within a game and in which this permit is vaid. This permit does not aow operation of vehices on cosed roads on game ands uness the game and is isted in the Disabed Access Program. The disabed hunter wi be issued a companion and vehice access card. One companion may accompany the disabed hunter, provided that person possesses the companion card. This permit is vaid as ong as the quaifying disabiity per sists. This permit is not a icense. It does not authorize hunting, fishing, or trapping activities. There is no fee associated with this permit. Lifetime Hunting and Inand Fishing Licenses Lifetime hunting and inand fishing icenses are a great dea for sportsmen. Purchasing a ife time icense saves you money over the years, may be charged to a VISA or MasterCard, and supports North Caroina s rich widife heritage. Funds from ifetime icense saes are deposited directy into the Widife Endowment Fund, which supports widife conservation programs. Severa types of ifetime icenses are avaiabe as noted under the License Information section of this Digest, which begins on page 3. Lifetime sportsman and ifetime comprehensive hunting icenses incude the state waterfow priviege. Lifetime compre - hen sive hunting icenses and ifetime comprehensive inand fishing icenses are sod ony to residents of North Caroina. Nonresidents may purchase the nonresident ifetime sportsman icense. Lifetime icenses may aso be personaized for an addi - tiona $5 fee (some excusions appy). There are no residency restrictions for the infant and youth ifetime icenses. You may aso give a ifetime icense as a gift. A of these icenses are good for the ife of the icense-hoder. Even if you move out of North Caroina, you can use the icense anytime you return to the state. NOTE: Lifetime icenses do not authorize trapping. Trapping icenses are annua icenses and must be purchased separatey. Quaifications: Com petent medica evidence must be submitted indicating that a disabiity exists that imits physica mobiity, to the extent that nor ma utiization of the game ands is not possibe without vehicuar assistance. Within the nationa forests in North Caroina, off highway vehices (OHVs) are permitted ony on designated routes. Further infor - mation about areas managed by the U.S. Forest Service, incud ing the Nantahaa, Pisgah, Croatan and Uwharrie Nationa Forests, may be obtained onine fs.usda.gov/activity/nfsnc/recreation/ohv. The Disabed Sportsman Hunt Certification is a medica certifi - ca tion used to estabish eigibiity for participation in disabed hunt opportunities. This certification is ony necessary when the appicant does not possess a ifetime disabed veteran or totay disabed icense. This certification is not a icense; there fore, a vaid hunting icense, in addition to the hunt permit, is required when participating in a disabed hunt opportunity. There is no fee for this certification. For a ist of disabed hunt opportunities, visit ncwidife.org/permithunt. Quaifica tions: Medica certification in one of the foowing disabiities: missing fifty percent (50 percent) or more of one or more imbs, whether by amputation or natura causes; paraysis of one or more imbs; dysfunction of one or more imbs rendering the individua unabe to perform the task of grasping and ifting with the hands and arms or unabe to wak without mechanica assistance, other than a cane; disease, injury or impairment confining the individua to a whee chair, waker or crutches; ega deafness. This certification sha remain vaid as ong as the quaifying disabiity persists. Lifetime icenses can be purchased at your oca widife service agent, onine at ncwidife.org, by teephone or by mai from the Widife Resources Commission. Pease note that infant and youth ifetime icenses require a copy of the birth certificate; these two icenses cannot be purchased onine or by teephone. Disabed icenses must be purchased by mai or in person at WRC Headquarters. A $2 transaction fee may be appied to your tota order at time of purchase. To obtain a ifetime icense appi cation visit our website at ncwidife.org or ca Tax Deductibe Contributions to the Widife Endow ment Fund Donations to the Widife Endowment Fund are deductibe from your taxabe income. Donations can be made directy to the fund or as a bequest from a wi or as a memoria gift to honor a deceased friend or famiy member. The fund can aso be named as a beneficiary to a ife insurance poicy. When making a memo ria donation, incude the name and address of the donor or donors as we as the name of the person or persons who is/are being remembered by the donation. A card wi be sent to the donor acknowedging the contribution. For additiona information, visit ncwidife.org/givedonate /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

17 TURN IN POACHERS NC WILDTIP turn in poachers NCWILDTIP The NC Legisature created the Widife Poacher Reward Fund Rue in 2014 to encourage any con cerned citizen who witnesses a conservation offense to report the vioation. The NCWRC estabished NC Turn-In-Poachers (TIP) program as a sient witness, anti-poaching program that encourages the pubic to report any suspicious activity or knowedge about poaching vioations. The muti-optioned reporting system is avaiabe 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. About the Reward Program The TIP Program was created to pay rewards to persons who provide information that resut in the arrest and conviction of persons who have committed certain widife offenses. These rewards range from $100 to $1000 depending on the severity of the crime and the fines assessed by the court. A tips wi remain anonymous however to be eigibe for the reward, you must provide the NCWRC with your name and contact information. How to Report a Vioation Report a vioation on-ine at ncwidife.org. Tipsters can aso insta a free app. Search for TipSoft or TipSubmit in the Googe Pay store or the Appe App Store. To submit an anonymous tip through text messaging, type WILDTIP and your message, then send it to (CRIMES on most ce phones). Message and data rates may appy. Text ing WILDTIP removes a identifying information from a text so tips are competey anonymous uness senders want to identify themseves to caim a reward. Tipsters can aso ca WILDTIP NOTE: This phone number is ony for these specific vioations. For a other widife vioations, questions and concerns pease ca MELISSA MCGAW/NCWRC Eigibe Vioations Unawfu sae, possess for sae or purchase of any widife. Unawfu take, possession or transportation of wid turkey. Unawfu take, possession or transportation of back bear. Unawfu take, possession or transportation of cougar. Unawfu take of deer between ½ hour after sunset to ½ hour before sunrise with the aid of an artificia ight (Night Deer hunting). Unawfu take of any wid anima or wid bird from or with the use of a vesse equipped with a motor or with motor attached. Wifuy making any fase or miseading statement in order to secure from himsef or another any icense, permit, priviege, exemption or other benefit which the person in question is not entited. Any person who vioates any provision of GS reguating trapping. Unawfu taking of any fox by unawfu trapping or with the aid of any eectronic caing device. Unawfu take, possession, transport, buy or sae any bad eage or goden eage, aive or dead, or any part, nest or egg of any bad or goden eage. Unawfu take of any migratory game bird with a rife, with the use and aid of ive decoys, over bait or during the cosed season. Unawfuy restricts access by vehice on game ands to a person who hods a specia vehicuar access identification card and permit issued by the Com mission to persons who have a handicap that imits physica mobiity. Wifu transportation or attempt to transport ive coyotes into this state for any purpose. Wifu importation or possession of back-taied or mue deer. Unawfu pacing of process food products as bait in any area of the State where the NCWRC has estabished an open season for taking back bears. Unawfu removing fera swine from a trap whie the swine is sti aive or by transporting such swine after the remova. Unawfu take, possess, transport, se, barter, trade, exchange, export, or offer for sae, barter, trade, exchange or export, or give away for any purpose incuding advertising or other promotiona purpose any anima on a protected wid anima ist, except as authorized according to the reguations of the Com mission, incuding those promugated pursuant to G.S (1). Some restrictions appy to individuas eigibe to receive reward funds. Visit ncwidife.org/widtip for more information. 2016/17 15

18 INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Genera Information Inand, Joint and Coasta Fishing Waters. Both the Widife Resources Commission and the Div ision of Marine Fisheries have icensing, management and regua tory authority in certain waters aong the coast of North Caro ina. These waters are designated as inand, joint and coasta waters. The Widife Resources Commission has juris dic tion in inand waters, and the Division of Marine Fisheries has jurisdic tion (except that pertaining to inand game fishes) in coasta waters. Both agencies have icensing and reguatory authority in joint waters. The boundaries between inand, joint and coasta fishing waters are prominenty marked with meta signs posted adjacent to the affected waters. A ist of these waters, with their boundaries indicated, is avaiabe from the Widife Resources Com mis sion, at ncwidife.org (see Fishing Where to Fish Coasta, Joint and Inand Fishing Waters Designations in N.C.), or by caing Maps are aso avaiabe at ncwidife.org/fishingmap. SPECIAL REGULATIONS FOR JOINT FISHING WATERS It is unawfu to possess striped bass or Bodie bass (striped bass hybrid) ess than 18 inches in ength. It is unawfu to possess striped bass or Bodie bass (striped bass hybrid) between 22 and 27 inches in ength in the joint waters of the Centra-Southern Striped Bass Management Area. It is unawfu to possess striped bass or Bodie bass (striped bass hybrid) from May 1 through Sept. 30 in the joint waters of the Centra-South ern and Abemare Sound Striped Bass Management Areas. It is unawfu to possess striped bass or Bodie bass (striped bass hybrid) in the joint waters of the Cape Fear River. It is unawfu to possess more than one daiy cree imit of striped bass or Bodie bass (striped bass hybrid), in combination, per person per day, regardess of the number of management areas fished. It is unawfu to possess striped bass or Bodie bass (striped bass hybrid) that are not in agreement with size and cree imits of the waters being fished, regardess of other management areas that may have been fished that day. It is unawfu to net fish for striped bass or Bodie bass (striped bass hybrid) in joint waters except as authorized by rues of the Marine Fisheries Commission. It is unawfu to use seines, gi nets or traw nets in the Lake Mattamuskeet canas. It is unawfu to use any net, net stakes, or eectrica fishing device within 800 feet downstream of the dam at Lock No. 1 on the Cape Fear River. It is unawfu to possess more than 10 American or hickory shad in aggregate, per person per day, taken by hook-and-ine. For the current daiy cree imits for American shad, see porta.ncdenr.org/web/mf/recreationa-fishing-size-and-bag-imits. Otherwise, in joint fishing waters, commercia fishing and icensing incuding commercia trotines are subject to the coasta fishing aws and reguations; inand game fish and hook-andine icensing excusive of commercia trotines are subject to the inand fishing aws and reguations. How to Measure Inand Game Fish The harvest of severa game fishes is reguated by ength imits. Fish ength is deter - mined by measuring aong a straight ine (in other words, not aong the curvature of the body) the distance from the tip of the cosed mouth to the tip of the compressed cauda (tai) fin. INLAND GAME FISH The foowing fishes are designated as inand game fish: Back bass (argemouth, smamouth and spotted) Crappie (white and back) Sunfish Buegi Redbreast sunfish (robin) Redear sunfish (shecracker) Pumpkinseed Warmouth Green sunfish Roanoke bass Rock bass Fier A other species of the famiy Centrarchidae Mountain trout (incuding but not imited to brook, brown and rainbow trout) Kokanee samon Waeye Sauger Pickere, chain (jack) and redfin Muskeunge White bass, in inand waters Bodie bass (striped bass hybrid), in inand waters Striped bass, in inand waters Shad (American and hickory), in inand waters White perch, in inand waters Yeow perch, in inand waters Spotted sea trout, in inand waters Founder, in inand waters Red drum (channe bass, red fish and puppy drum), in inand waters GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR INLAND GAME FISH Purchase and Sae The purchase and sae of inand game fish are unawfu, except from and by icensed commercia trout ponds and fish propagators. Manner of Taking Inand game fish may be taken ony with a hook and ine. Landing nets may be used to and fishes caught on a hook and ine. It is unawfu to snag fish by puing or jerking a device equipped with one or more hooks through the water for the purpose of impaing fish. American and hickory shad may be taken with bow nets from March 1 through Apri 30 in those counties and waters with open seasons for the use of bow nets (see Seasons and Waters pages 30 35) and are subject to daiy cree imits (see page 20). In the inand waters of the Roanoke River upstream of the U.S. 258 bridge, ony a singe barbess hook or a ure with a singe barbess hook may be used from Apri 1 to June 30. Barbess means that the hook either does not have a barb or that the barb is bent down. White perch may be taken when captured in a cast net being used to coect nongame fishes in a impounded waters west /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

19 of Interstate 95 and in the Tar River Reservoir (Nash Co.) except in waters in and west of Haywood, Buncombe and Rutherford counties where it is unawfu to possess, transport or reease ive White Perch. Possession and Use of Game Fish 1. It is unawfu to take, in any one day, more than the daiy cree imit of any inand game fish having a specified cree imit. 2. It is unawfu to possess more than the daiy cree imit whie fishing, boating or afied; or to possess at any pace more than three days cree imit. 3. It is unawfu to possess fish whose size, cree or season restrictions are not in compiance with the reguations on the waters being fished. 4. It is unawfu, whie fishing, to change the appearance of fish subject to size imits or daiy cree imits or remove the head and/or tai from fish that are reguated by a size imit so that they may not be measured and/or identified. 5. It is unawfu to destroy unnecessariy any inand game fish Upper jaw extends beyond eye Upper jaw extends to back of eye BASS IDENTIFICATION CHART Largemouth Bass Found statewide Horizonta band No patch of teeth on tongue* Deep notch between fins No scaes at base of fin No scaes at base of fin Spotted Bass Found west of I-77 and in the Cape Fear River Basin Shaow notch between fins Scaes at base of fin taken from pubic fishing waters. 6. Inand game fish may be used as bait if they are egay taken and are in agreement with the size and cree imits of the waters being fished and other reguations. Seasons There are no cosed seasons on inand game fishes with the foowing exceptions: 1. In Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, where the season for a fishes is cosed and fishing is prohibited from March 1 Apri 1, This cosed season for fishing does not appy to power reservoirs or municipa water suppy reservoirs. 2. On U.S. Fish and Widife Service Nationa Widife Refuges, where federa reguations appy. See pages for a ist of refuges and contact information. 3. On the Roanoke River, where the striped bass season is cosed from May 1 end of February from the Roanoke Rapids Dam downstream to the mouth of the river at Abemare Sound, uness changed by procamation of the Executive Director, Widife Resources Commission. Body sender, ess than 1/3 ength MORONE IDENTIFICATION CHART White Bass One patch of teeth on tongue Striped Bass Stripes often faint Stripes distinct and usuay continuous INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Horizonta streaks Horizonta band Scaes at base of fin Upper jaw doesn t extend beyond back of eye One patch of teeth on tongue* Smamouth Bass Found west of I-77 and in the Uwharrie and Dan rivers Three dark bars radiate from eye Shaow notch between fins Scaes at base of fin Body deep, more than 1/3 ength Two patches of teeth on tongue Bodie Bass (striped bass hybrid) Stripes distinct and usuay broken Vertica bars No patch of teeth on tongue Scaes at base of fin Two patches of teeth on tongue *Largemouth bass X spotted bass hybrids may have a sma patch of teeth on the tongue. Additiona information on these and other species can be found at ncwidife.org/fishing 2016/17 17

20 INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION 4. In the Centra-Southern Striped Bass Management Area where it is unawfu to possess striped bass or Bodie bass (striped bass hybrid) from May 1 Sept In Cape Fear River and tributaries beow Buckhorn Dam where possession of striped bass and Bodie bass (striped bass hybrid) is prohibited. 6. In Sutton Lake, where possession of argemouth bass is prohibited from Dec. 1 March Fishing is prohibited from Feb. 15 Apri 15 in the Linvie River from the mouth, as marked at Lake James, upstream to the N.C. 126 bridge. 8. Seasons and size and cree imits for spotted sea trout, founder, and red drum are the same as those recreationa imits estab ished by the Division of Marine Fisheries in adjacent joint and coasta fish ing waters. For current imits, see porta.ncdenr.org/web/mf/recreationa-fishing-size-and-bag-imits or ca or TROTLINES, SET-HOOKS AND JUG-HOOKS A trotine is a fishing device consisting of a horizonta common ine having mutipe hooks attached. A set-hook is a fishing device consisting of a singe ine having no more than three hooks that is attached at one end ony to a stationary object. A jug-hook is a fishing device consisting of a singe ine having no more than three hooks that is attached at one end ony to a foat. Trotines, set-hooks and jug-hooks may be fished under any icense that authorizes basic fishing privieges. It is unawfu to use ive bait with trotines, set-hooks or jug-hooks. REGULATIONS FOR WARMWATER GAME FISH State waters are cassified as: inand, joint and coasta (see Gen era Information on page 16). These state waters are coectivey referred to as pubic fishing waters. Certain fishes, incuding arge mouth bass, crappie and mountain trout are designated inand game fish and under the jurisdiction ofthe Widife Resources Com missionina pubic waters; whereas, some species, incuding striped bass, white and yeow perch, founder and red drum, are desig natedasinandgamefishonyininandwaters (seeistonpage 16). LOCATION Trotines must be set parae to the nearest shore in a pubic waters, where their use is authorized. Each trotine, set-hook and jug-hook sha have attached the user s name and address or the user s WRC customer number egiby inscribed. Each trotine sha be conspicuousy marked at each end, and each set-hook sha be conspicuousy marked at one end with a prominent fag or foating object. Meta cans and gass containers cannot be used as markers. The number of jug-hooks that may be fished is imited to 70 per boat. Trotines, set-hooks and jug-hooks must be fished daiy, and a fish must be removed daiy. Trotines, set-hooks and jug-hooks without bait or not propery abeed may be removed from the water by widife enforcement officers. Bue crabs may be taken recreationay with a singe ine with mutipe baits without hooks (see restrictions under Taking Non game Fish, Crustaceans, and Mousks for Bait or Persona Consumption on page 29). Exceptions No trotines, set-hooks or jug-hooks may be used in the impounded waters of Sandhis Game Land. No trotines, set-hooks or jug-hooks may be used in Pubic Moun - tain Trout Waters, except impounded waters of power reservoirs and municipa water suppy reservoirs open to the pubic for fishing. In Lake Waccamaw, it is unawfu to use trotines, set-hooks or jug-hooks from May 1 Sept. 30. SIZE LIMIT DAILY CREEL LIMIT* Back bass (incuding argemouth, smamouth and spotted) -A pubic waters except those isted beow - Roanoke River downstream of Roanoke Rapids Dam - Currituck, Roanoke, Croatan, and Abemare Sounds and a their tributaries - Chowan River and its tributaries (incuding the Meherrin River) - Yeopim River - Pasquotank River - Perquimans River - North River - Northwest River - Scuppernong River - Aigator River (incuding the Aigator/Pungo Cana east of the NC Hwy 264/45 bridge) - Lake Mattamuskeet and associated canas (Hyde Co.) - Pungo Lake (Washington and Hyde counties) - New Lake (Hyde Co.) - Lake Raeigh (Wake Co.) - Sutton Lake (New Hanover Co.) - Buckhorn Reservoir (Wison and Nash counties) - Cane Creek Lake (Union Co.) - Lake Thom-A-Lex (Davidson Co.) - Shearon Harris Reservoir - Lake Hampton (Yadkin County) *Pease note: In combination means the tota number for a species combined. 14-inch minimum, except 2 may be ess than 14 inches 14-inch minimum 14-inch minimum Dec. 1 March 31: No bass may be possessed. 16-inch minimum 18-inch minimum 14-inch minimum, except that 2 may be ess than 14 inches and no bass between inches may be possessed 5 in combination, incuding ony 2 ess than 14 inches 5 in combination 5 in combination Dec. 1 March 31: No bass may be possessed. 5 in combination 5 in combination 5 in combination, incuding ony 2 ess than 14 inches /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

21 LOCATION Back bass (incuding argemouth, smamouth and spotted) - Lake Pheps - New River (Aeghany Co. portion downstream of Fieds Dam in Grayson Co., Va.) -Randeman Reservoir (Randoph and Guiford counties) - Lake Cammack (Aamance Co.) - Lake Hot (Granvie Co.) - Lake Santeetah (Graham Co.) - Lake Chatuge (Cay County) Striped bass and Bodie bass (striped bass hybrid) (Inand impoundments and tributaries) -Impounded inand waters and their tributaries except those isted beow - John H. Kerr Reservoir - Dan River in Caswe Co., N.C., downstream of Danvie, Va. - Lake Gaston - Roanoke Rapids Reservoir - Lake Norman, Arrowhead Lake (Anson Co.), High Rock Pond (Caswe Co.), Moss Lake, Mountain Isand Reservoir, Oak Hoow Lake, Lake Thom-A-Lex, Lake Townsend, and Saem Lake - Lake Chatuge (Cay County) Striped bass and Bodie bass (striped bass hybrid) (Coasta rivers and impoundments) Roanoke River Striped Bass Management Area (incuding Roanoke, Cashie, Midde and Eastmost rivers and their tributaries) - Roanoke Rapids Dam downstream to mouth of the river at Abemare Sound Abemare Sound Striped Bass Management Area (incuding Roanoke Sound, Croatan Sound, Abemare Sound, Currituck Sound and Chowan, Yeopim, Perquimans, Litte, Pasquotank, North, Aigator and Scuppernong rivers and their tributaries) Centra-Southern Striped Bass Management Area, inand and joint waters incuding: - Tar-Pamico River and tributaries from Rocky Mount Mi Dam downstream to N & S Rairoad Bridge at Washington - Neuse River and tributaries from Miburnie Dam downstream to Southern Rairoad Bridge at New Bern - Pungo River - A other unisted inand and joint waters of coasta rivers and their tributaries, except Cape Fear River and tributaries Centra-Southern Striped Bass Management Area, coasta waters incuding: - Tar-Pamico River downstream of the N & S Rairoad Bridge at Washington, incuding Pamico Sound and tributaries designated as coasta waters - Neuse River downstream of Southern Rairoad Bridge at New Bern, incuding Pamico Sound and tributaries designated as coasta waters - A other unisted coasta waters SIZE LIMIT 14-inch minimum and no bass between inches may be possessed No minimum size and no bass between inches may be possessed 14-inch minimum, except that 2 may be ess than 14 inches and ony one may be greater than 20 inches No minimum size imit, and ony 2 bass may be greater than 14 inches No minimum size imit, and ony 5 bass may be greater than 14 inches 12-inch minimum size imit ony for Largemouth Bass. No minimum size imit for Smamouth and Spotted Bass. 20-inch minimum Oct. 1 May 31: 24-inch minimum June 1 Sept. 30: No minimum size imit Oct. 1 May 31: 20-inch minimum June 1 Sept. 30: No minimum size imit 16-inch minimum No minimum size imit, and ony 2 fish may be greater than 22 inches Season - March 1 Apri 30 (uness cosed or extended by procamation): 18-inch minimum, no fish between inches Estabished by Division of Marine Fisheries Season - Oct. 1 Apri inch minimum and no fish between inches Estabished by Division of Marine Fisheries DAILY CREEL LIMIT* 5 in combination 5 in combination, incuding ony 1 bass greater than 22 inches 5 in combination, incuding ony 2 ess than 14 inches and ony 1 greater than 20 inches 10 in combination, incuding ony 2 greater than 14 inches No daiy cree imit for bass ess than 14 inches, and ony 5 bass may be greater than 14 inches 10 in combination 4 in combination Oct. 1 May 31: 2 in combination June 1 Sept. 30: 4 in combination 4 in combination 4 in combination 15 in combination, incuding ony 2 greater than 22 inches Season - March 1 Apri 30 (uness cosed or extended by procamation): 2 in combination incuding ony 1 greater than 27 inches Estabished by Division of Marine Fisheries Season- Oct. 1 Apri 30 2 in combination Estabished by Division of Marine Fisheries INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION 2016/17 19

22 INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION LOCATION Striped bass and Bodie bass (striped bass hybrid) (Coasta rivers and impoundments) Centra-Southern Striped Bass Management Area, inand, joint and coasta waters of: - Cape Fear River and tributaries downstream of Buckhorn Dam - Pee Dee River and tributaries downstream of Bewett Fas Dam - Lake Mattamuskeet Sunfish (except species isted beow) - A pubic fishing waters except those isted beow In the foowing waters and their tributaries: - Roanoke River downstream of Roanoke Rapids Dam - Tar River downstream of Tar River Reservoir Dam - Neuse River downstream of Fas Lake Dam - Haw River downstream of Jordan Lake Dam - Deep River downstream of Lockvie Dam - Cape Fear River - Waccamaw River downstream of Lake Waccamaw Dam, Lumber River, incuding Drowning Creek -A pubic waters east of Interstate 95, except Tar River Reservoir (Nash Co.) Crappie (back and white) - A pubic fishing waters except those isted beow In the foowing waters and their tributaries: - Tar River downstream of Tar River Reservoir Dam - Neuse River downstream of Fas Lake Dam - Haw River downstream of Jordan Lake Dam - Deep River downstream of Lockvie Dam - Cape Fear River - Waccamaw River downstream of Lake Waccamaw Dam - Lumber River, incuding Drowning Creek - A other pubic waters east of Interstate 95, except Tar River Reservoir (Nash Co.), Sutton Lake (New Hanover Co.) and Roanoke River (see beow) - Badin Lake, Fas Lake (Stany and Montgomery counties), Lake Tiery, and Bewett Fas Lake - Pee Dee River from Bewett Fas Lake Dam to the South Caroina state ine - Lake Norman, Lake Hyco, Lake Ramseur, and Cane Creek Lake - A pubic waters west of Interstate 77 - Lake Hampton (Yadkin County) - B. Everett Jordan Reservoir - Roanoke River (downstream of Roanoke Rapids Dam), Cashie, Midde and Eastmost rivers and their tributaries - Buckhorn Reservoir (Wison and Nash counties) - Lake Chatuge (Cay County) Rock bass and Roanoke bass - A other pubic fishing waters except those isted beow - A pubic waters east of Interstate 77 White bass -A inand fishing waters American and hickory shad - A inand fishing waters except those isted beow - Roanoke River downstream of Roanoke Rapids Dam to the U.S. 258 bridge near Scotand Neck - Neuse River and its tributaries - Cape Fear River and its tributaries - Lake Gaston - Roanoke Rapids Reservoir - John H. Kerr Reservoir Spotted sea trout, founder, and red drum - A inand fishing waters SIZE LIMIT No striped bass may be possessed 18-inch minimum None None None 8-inch minimum 10-inch minimum None None None 8-inch minimum None None None None No American shad may be possessed DAILY CREEL LIMIT No striped bass may be possessed 3 in combination None 30 in combination, incuding no more than 12 redbreast sunfish None 20 in combination 20 in combination 20 in combination 30 in combination None 2 in combination in combination 10 in combination, incuding no more than 1 American shad 10 in combination, incuding no more than 5 American shad No American shad may be possessed Same as those recreationa imits estab ished by Division of Marine Fisheries in adjacent joint and coasta fishing waters. For current imits, visit porta.ncdenr.org/web/mf/recreationa-fishing-size-and-bag-imits or ca or /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

23 LOCATION SIZE LIMIT DAILY CREEL LIMIT Waeye - A other pubic fishing waters except those isted beow - Lake James and tributaries - Linvie River upstream from N.C. 126 bridge - Lake Gaston - Roanoke Rapids Reservoir - John H. Kerr Reservoir Muskeunge - A pubic fishing waters Sauger - A pubic fishing waters Kokanee samon - A pubic fishing waters A other warmwater game fishes - A pubic fishing waters LOCATION/SEASON SIZE LIMIT DAILY CREEL LURES/BAIT LIMIT RESTRICTIONS* HATCHERY SUPPORTED TROUT WATERS Aug. 1, 2016 Feb. 28, 2017 None 7 None 7 a.m. Apri 1, 2017 Juy 31, A Hatchery Supported Trout Waters not isted beow March 1, 2017 March 31, 2017 **No fishing aowed ** ** ** -A Hatchery Supported Trout Waters not isted beow No cosed season -Linvie River and tributaries within Linvie None 7 None Gorge Widerness Area -Power reservoirs and municipa water suppy reservoirs WILD TROUT WATERS No cosed season 7 inches 4 Artificia ures with a singe hook. WILD TROUT NATURAL BAIT WATERS No cosed season 7 inches 4 Artificia ures or natura bait with a singe hook. No ive fish aowed as bait. DELAYED HARVEST TROUT WATERS Oct. 1, 2016 June 2, 2017 ** ** Artificia ures with a singe hook. **No trout may be possessed Natura bait may not be possessed. **No fishing aowed from ½ hour after sunset on ** June 2, 2017, to 6 a.m. on June 3, 2017 Aug. 1, 2016 Sept. 30, 2016 None 7 None June 3, 2017 Juy 31, 2017 (Note: youth under 16 years od ony fishing from 6 a.m. unti noon on June 3, 2017) CATCH AND RELEASE / ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY TROUT WATERS No cosed season ** ** Artificia ures with a singe hook. **No trout may be possessed Natura bait may not be possessed. CATCH AND RELEASE / ARTIFICIAL FLIES ONLY TROUT WATERS No cosed season ** ** Artificia fies with a singe hook. **No trout may be possessed Natura bait may not be possessed. SPECIAL REGULATION TROUT WATERS No cosed season Ony one fish may be 7 None -Catawba River from Muddy Creek to greater than 14 inches ong Morganton water intake dam UNDESIGNATED TROUT WATERS No cosed season None 7 None *See page 22 for a definition of artificia ure and natura bait None 15-inch minimum None 18-inch minimum 42-inch minimum 15-inch minimum None None REGULATIONS FOR MOUNTAIN TROUT None INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION 2016/17 21

24 INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION STATE FISH HATCHERIES It is unawfu to fish at any time in the waters or on the property of any state fish hatchery, incuding Bones Creek from the Lake Rim Dam to the U.S. 401 Bypass (Raeford Road), except McKinney Lake Reservoir at McKinney Lake State Fish Hatchery. Fishing on Game Lands A game ands icense is not required to fish in any waters on game ands. A game ands are open to pubic fishing with the foowing exceptions: - Re-stocked ponds when posted against fishing. - Grogan Creek in Transyvania County, which serves as a fish hatchery and water suppy. - Hunting Creek Swamp Waterfow Refuge in Davie County. - Private ponds where fishing may be prohibited by property owners. In a game ands ponds, forked-tai catfish may be taken ony by hook and ine, and the daiy cree imit is six catfish for a species combined. The use of specia fishing devices, incuding crab pots, is pro hibited in designated waterfow impoundments ocated on game ands. Exception: Nongame fish may be taken year-round with archery equipment (see page 42) from waterfow impound ments ocated entirey on game ands other than the impounded waters on the Sandhis Game Land and Pubic Moun tain Trout Waters. Bue crabs may be taken recreationay from designated water fow impoundments on game ands with hand-hed ines with singe baits and a coapsibe crab trap with a maximum opening of 18 inches. The imit is 50 crabs per person, per day or 100 per vesse per day with a minimum carapace width of five inches (point to point). REGULATIONS FOR MOUNTAIN TROUT Brook, brown and rainbow trout require cod, cean water and are therefore generay restricted to mountain streams and akes. Those mountain waters that support trout and are open to pubic fishing are designated as Pubic Mountain Trout Waters by the Widife Resources Commission and are man aged for pubic trout fishing. A significant amount of trout fishing opportunities in western North Caroina are ocated on private property. These andowners have generousy aowed for pubic access for fish - ing. Pease respect their property. Your cooperation is needed to protect fishing opportunities for future generations. The Commission conspicuousy marks Pubic Mountain Trout Waters with reguation signs that indicate ocations for pubic access. When angers encounter posted against trespass signs aong these designated sections on private ands, they shoud respect the property owner s rights and choose another ocation aong that stream to fish. Maps of trout water and their cassifi - cations may be viewed at ncwidife.org/fishing/trout. Fishing in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters Fishing is imited to hook and ine ony. An artificia ure is defined as a fishing ure that neither con tains nor has been treated with any substance that attracts fish by the sense of taste or sme. Natura bait is defined as any iving or dead organism (pant or anima), or parts thereof, or prepared substances designed to attract fish by the sense of taste or sme. It is unawfu to take fish bait or bait fish from Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. It is unawfu to possess natura bait whie fishing Wid Trout and Catch and Reease waters, uness those waters are aso specificay cassified for use of natura bait. Dropper fies may be used when fishing any Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. It is unawfu to fish with more than one ine per person, except on power reservoirs and municipa water suppy reservoirs. Fishing is not aowed in Hatchery Supported Trout Waters dur - ing the cosed season except in the Linvie River and tributaries within Linvie Gorge Widerness Area and on power reservoirs and municipa water suppy reservoirs designated as trout waters. Non-trout species may be harvested from Deayed Harvest Trout Waters during the catch-and-reease ony trout season under appicabe size and cree imits. It is unawfu to pace hatchery-reared fish into Wid Trout Waters or move wid fish from one stream to another on game /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED. ands without prior written authorization. Information and reguations about trout fishing on game ands are isted on page 28. Trout Fishing in Undesignated Waters Some waters that are not designated as Pubic Mountain Trout Waters contain mountain trout. When fishing in undesignated waters, there is no size imit or bait restriction, and the cree imit is seven trout per day. A trout fishing icense is not required to fish undesignated waters, and there is no cosed season. Pubic Mountain Trout Waters Pubic Mountain Trout Waters are cassified for management pur poses as either Hatchery Supported Trout Waters or Wid Trout Waters. Hatchery Supported Trout Waters must be stocked periodicay with trout to sustain anging. Wid Trout Waters are high-quaity waters that sustain trout popuations by natura reproduction. Some Pubic Mountain Trout Waters are speciay reguated to meet specific management objectives. These are further cassified as foows: Catch and Reease/Artificia Fies Ony Trout Waters Catch and Reease/Artificia Lures Ony Trout Waters Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Specia Reguation Trout Waters Wid Trout/Natura Bait Waters Some of these pubic trout waters are aso cassified as Mountain Heritage Trout Waters and are identified on page 28. Catch and Reease/Artificia Fies Ony Trout Waters These waters and their tributaries, except as noted, may be fished ony with artificia fies having one singe hook. No trout may be harvested or possessed whie fishing these streams. These streams are marked with red-and-god signs. Catch and Reease/Artificia Lures Ony Trout Waters These waters and their tributaries, except as noted, may be fished ony with artificia ures having one singe hook. No trout may be harvested or possessed whie fishing these streams. These streams are marked with purpe-and-god signs. Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Deayed Harvest Trout Waters, excuding tributaries except as noted, may be fished ony with artificia ures with one singe hook, no natura bait may be possessed, and no trout may be harvested or possessed whie fishing these waters between Oct. 1, 2016 and 30 minutes after sunset on June 2, These waters are cosed to fishing between 30 minutes after sunset on June 2 and 6 a.m. on June 3. At 6 a.m. on June 3, 2017, these waters open to fishing for youths under 16 years od under Hatchery Supported Trout Waters reguations no bait restriction, no minimum ength imit and seven-trout-per-day cree imit. At 12 p.m. on June 3, 2017, these waters open for a angers under Hatchery Supported Trout Waters reguations. These waters are marked with back-and-white signs.

25 Hatchery Supported Trout Waters In Hatchery Supported Trout Waters there is no size imit or bait restriction, and the cree imit is seven trout per day. These waters are marked with green-and-white signs. Specia Reguation Trout Waters These portions of Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, excuding tributaries except as noted, are subject to watercourse-specific, specia reguations. These streams are marked with whiteand-red signs. Wid Trout Waters In a Wid Trout Waters, the minimum ength imit is seven inches and the cree imit is four trout per day. Ony artificia ures with one singe hook may be used. A Pubic Mountain Trout Waters ocated on game ands are Wid Trout Waters uness cassified and posted otherwise. Wid Trout Waters are marked with bue-and-god signs. Wid Trout/Natura Bait Waters These waters and their tributaries, except as noted, may be fished with artificia ures or natura bait, except ive fish. Lures and natura baits are restricted to one singe hook. The minimum ength imit is seven inches, and the daiy cree imit is four trout. These streams are marked with brown-and-god signs. ALLEGHANY COUNTY Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Litte River (S.R bridge to 275 yards downstream of the intersection of S.R and S.R [marked by a sign on each bank]) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Big Pine Creek Bedsoe Creek Brush Creek (N.C. 21 bridge to confuence with Litte River, except where posted against trespassing) Cranberry Creek (Big) Gade Creek Litte River (275 yards downstream of the intersection of S.R and S.R [marked by a sign on each bank] to McCann Dam) Meadow Fork Pine Swamp Creek Piney Fork Prathers Creek Wid Trout Waters Big Sandy Creek (portion on Stone Mountain State Park) Stone Mountain Creek (portion on Stone Mountain State Park) ASHE COUNTY Catch and Reease/Artificia Lures Ony Trout Waters Big Horse Creek (Virginia state ine to Mud Creek at S.R. 1363, excuding tributaries) Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Big Horse Creek (S.R bridge to North Fork New River) Heton Creek (Virginia state ine to New River) South Fork New River (upstream end of Todd Isand to the S.R bridge) Trout Lake Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Beaver Creek (N.C. 221 to South Fork New River) Big Horse Creek (Mud Creek at S.R to S.R bridge) Big Laure Creek (S.R bridge to confuence with North Fork New River) Buffao Creek (S.R bridge to N.C bridge) Cranberry Creek (Aeghany Co. ine to South Fork New River) Nathans Creek North Fork New River (Watauga Co. ine to Sharp Dam) Od Fieds Creek (N.C. 221 to South Fork New River) Peak Creek (headwaters to Trout Lake, except Bue Ridge Parkway waters) Roan Creek Three Top Creek AVERY COUNTY Catch and Reease/Artificia Fies Ony Trout Waters Ek River (portion on Lees-McRae Coege property, excuding the mipond) Lost Cove Creek (game and portion, excuding Gragg Prong and Rockhouse Creek) Catch and Reease/Artificia Lures Ony Trout Waters Wison Creek (game and portion) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Boyde Coffey Lake Ek River (S.R crossing immediatey upstream of Big Fas to the Tennessee state ine) Linvie River (Land Harbor ine [beow dam] to the Bue Ridge Parkway boundary ine, except where posted against trespassing) Mitimber Creek North Toe River upper (Watauga St. to Roby Shoemaker Wetands and Famiy Recreationa Park, except where posted against trespassing) North Toe River ower (S.R to Mitche Co. ine, except where posted against trespassing) Squirre Creek Widcat Lake Wid Trout Waters Birchfied Creek Cow Camp Creek Cranberry Creek (headwaters to U.S. 19E/N.C. 194 bridge) Gragg Prong Horse Creek Kentucky Creek North Harper Creek Pumtree Creek Roaring Creek Rockhouse Creek Shawneehaw Creek (portion adjacent to Banner Ek Greenway) South Harper Creek Webb Prong BUNCOMBE COUNTY Catch and Reease/Artificia Lures Ony Trout Waters Carter Creek (game and portion) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Bent Creek (headwaters to N.C. Arboretum boundary ine) Cane Creek (headwaters to S.R bridge) Corner Rock Creek (Litte Andy Creek to confuence with Waker Branch) Diingham Creek (Corner Rock Creek to Ivy Creek) Ivy Creek (Ivy River) (Diingham Creek to U.S bridge) Lake Powhatan Reems Creek (Sugar Camp Fork to U.S bridge, except where posted against trespassing) Rich Branch (downstream from the confuence with Rocky Branch) Stony Creek Swannanoa River (S.R bridge near Ridgecrest to Wood Avenue bridge [intersection of N.C. 81 and U.S. 74A in Ashevie], except where posted against trespassing) INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION 2016/17 23

26 INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION BURKE COUNTY Catch and Reease/Artificia Lures Ony Trout Waters Henry Fork (portion on South Mountains State Park) Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Jacob Fork (Shinny Creek to ower South Mountains State Park boundary) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Carro Creek (portion on game ands above S.R. 1405) Henry Fork (ower South Mountains State Park ine downstream to S.R at Ivy Creek) Linvie River (portion within Linvie Gorge Widerness Area (LGWA) and portion beow Lake James power house from upstream bridge on S.R to Muddy Creek) There is no cosed season within LGWA. Specia Reguation Trout Waters Catawba River (Muddy Creek to City of Morganton water intake dam). The cree imit is seven trout per day; ony one of which may be greater than 14 inches. No bait restrictions. No cosed season. Wid Trout Waters A waters ocated on South Mountains State Park except Cear Creek Reservoir, the main stream of Jacob Fork between the mouth of Shinny Creek and the ower park boundary, and Henry Fork and its tributaries Nette Branch (game and portion) CALDWELL COUNTY Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Wison Creek (game and portion beow Lost Cove Creek to Phiips Branch) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Boone Fork Pond Buffao Creek (mouth of Joes Creek to McCoud Branch) Joes Creek (first fas upstream of S.R to confuence with Buffao Creek) Wison Creek (Phiips Branch to Brown Mountain Beach Dam, except where posted against trespassing) Yadkin River (Happy Vaey Ruritan Community Park to S.R. 1515) Wid Trout Waters Buffao Creek (Watauga Co. ine to Long Ridge Branch incuding tributaries on game ands) Joes Creek (Watauga Co. ine to first fas upstream of the end of S.R. 1574) Rockhouse Creek CHEROKEE COUNTY Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Davis Creek (confuence of Bad and Dockery creeks to Hanging Dog Creek) Hyatt Creek (Big Dam Branch to Vaey River) Junauska Creek (Ashturn Creek to Vaey River) Shuer Creek (Joe Brown Hwy. [S.R. 1325] bridge to Tennessee ine) Vaey River (S.R to U.S. 19 Business bridge in Murphy) Wid Trout/Natura Bait Waters Bad Creek (game and portions) Dockery Creek (game and portions) North Shoa Creek (game and portions) CLAY COUNTY Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Fires Creek (USFS Road 340A to the foot bridge in the USFS Fires Creek Picnic Area) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Buck Creek (game and portion downstream of U.S. 64 bridge) Fires Creek (foot bridge in the USFS Fires Creek Picnic Area to S.R. 1300) Tusquitee Creek (Compass Creek to ower S.R bridge) GRAHAM COUNTY Deayed Harvest Trout Waters (Big) Snowbird Creek (USFS footbridge at the od rairoad junction to USFS Road 2579) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Caderwood Reservoir (Cheoah Dam to Tennessee state ine) Cheoah Reservoir Panther Creek (confuence of Stand Creek and Rock Creek to Lake Fontana) Santeetah Creek (Johns Branch to Lake Santeetah) (Big) Snowbird Creek (USFS Road 2579 to S.R bridge) Stecoah Creek (upper game and boundary to Lake Fontana) Tuua Creek (S.R to ower bridge on S.R. 1275) West Buffao Creek Yeow Creek (Lake Santeetah Hydropower Pipeine to Cheoah River) Wid Trout Waters Litte Buffao Creek South Fork Squay Creek Squay Creek Wid Trout/Natura Bait Waters Deep Creek Franks Creek Long Creek (game and portion) HAYWOOD COUNTY Deayed Harvest Trout Waters West Fork Pigeon River (Queen Creek to the first game and boundary upstream of Lake Logan) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Cod Springs Creek (Fa Branch to Pigeon River) Jonathan Creek (upstream S.R bridge to Pigeon River, except where posted against trespass) Pigeon River (Stamey Cove Branch to upstream U.S bridge) Richand Creek (Russ Avenue [U.S. 276] bridge to U.S. 19 bridge) West Fork Pigeon River (Tom Creek to Queen Creek, incuding portions on game ands, except Midde Prong) Wid Trout/Natura Bait Waters Hemphi Creek Hurricane Creek (incuding portions of tributaries on game ands) HENDERSON COUNTY Deayed Harvest Trout Waters North Fork Mis River (Hendersonvie watershed dam to the ower game and boundary) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters (Rocky) Broad River (end of S.R to Rutherford Co. ine) Cane Creek (rairoad bridge upstream of S.R bridge to U.S. 25 bridge) Cear Creek (Laure Fork to S.R. 1582) Green River (Lake Summit powerhouse to game and boundary) (Big) Hungry River (S.R to Green River) JACKSON COUNTY Catch and Reease/Artificia Lures Ony Trout Waters Fat Creek Tuckasegee River (above the Cark property) Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Tuckasegee River (downstream N.C. 107 bridge to the fas ocated 275 yards upstream of the U.S bridge [marked by a sign on each bank]) /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

27 Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Basam Lake Bear Creek Lake Cedar Ciff Lake Cuowhee Creek (Tiey Creek to Tuckasegee River) Dark Ridge Creek (Jones Creek to Scott Creek) Greens Creek (Greens Creek Baptist Church on S.R to Savannah Creek) Savannah Creek (She Branch to Cage Branch) Scott Creek (Dark Ridge Creek to Tuckasegee River, except where posted against trespassing) Tanasee Creek Lake Tuckasegee River upper (John Brown Branch to the downstream N.C. 107 bridge) Tuckasegee River ower (fas ocated 275 yards upstream of U.S bridge [marked by a sign on each bank] to S.R bridge at Wimot) Wof Creek Lake Wid Trout Waters Gage Creek North Fork Scott Creek Tanasee Creek Whitewater River (downstream from Siver Run Creek to South Caroina state ine) Wof Creek (except Basam Lake and Wof Creek Lake) Wid Trout/Natura Bait Waters Buff Creek Chattooga River (S.R bridge to South Caroina state ine) Lower Fower Creek (game and portion) Scotsman Creek (game and portion) MACON COUNTY Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Nantahaa River (Whiteoak Creek to Nantahaa hydropower discharge cana) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Burningtown Creek (Left Prong to Litte Tennessee River) Cartoogechaye Creek (downstream U.S. 64 bridge to Litte Tennessee River) Ciffside Lake Cuasaja River (Sequoyah Dam to U.S. 64 bridge near junction of S.R. 1672) Nantahaa River upper (Dicks Creek to Whiteoak Creek) Nantahaa River ower (Nantahaa hydropower discharge cana to Swain Co. ine) Queens Creek Lake Wid Trout/Natura Bait Waters Chattooga River (S.R bridge to South Caroina state ine) Jarrett Creek (game and portion) Kimsey Creek Overfow Creek (game and portion) Park Creek Teico Creek (game and portion) Turte Pond Creek (game and portion) MADISON COUNTY Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Big Laure Creek (N.C. 208 bridge to the U.S bridge) Sheton Laure Creek (N.C. 208 bridge at Beva to the confuence with Big Laure Creek) Spring Creek (N.C. 209 bridge at Hot Springs city imits to iron bridge at end of Andrews Avenue) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Big Laure Creek (Mars Hi watershed boundary to the S.R [Big Laure Road] bridge downstream of Bearpen Branch) Big Pine Creek (S.R bridge to French Broad River) Litte Ivy Creek (confuence of Midde Fork and Paint Fork at Beech Gen to confuence with Ivy Creek at Forks of Ivy) Max Patch Pond Meadow Fork Creek (S.R to Spring Creek) Puncheon Fork (Hampton Creek to Big Laure Creek) Roaring Fork (Fa Branch to Meadow Fork) Sheton Laure Creek (confuence of Big Creek and Mi Creek to N.C. 208 bridge at Beva) Shut-in Creek Spicorn Creek Spring Creek (junction of N.C. 209 and N.C. 63 to USFS Road 223) West Fork Shut-in Creek (ower game and boundary to confuence with East Fork Shut-in Creek) Wid Trout/Natura Bait Waters Big Creek (headwaters to the ower game and boundary, incuding tributaries) MCDOWELL COUNTY Catch and Reease/Artificia Lures Ony Trout Waters Newberry Creek (game and portion) Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Catawba River (portion adjacent to Marion Greenway) Curtis Creek (game and portion downstream of the USFS boundary at Deep Branch) Mi Creek (U.S. 70 bridge to I-40 bridge) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Armstrong Creek (Cato Hoer ower ine downstream to upper Greenee ine) Catawba River (Catawba Fas Campground to Od Fort Recreation Park) Litte Buck Creek (game and portion) Mi Creek (upper rairoad bridge to U.S. 70 bridge, except where posted against trespassing) North Fork Catawba River (headwaters to North Cove Schoo at S.R bridge) MITCHELL COUNTY Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Cane Creek (N.C. 226 bridge to S.R bridge) North Toe River (U.S. 19E bridge to N.C. 226 bridge) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Big Rock Creek (headwaters to N.C. 226 bridge at S.R intersection) Cane Creek (S.R to N.C. 226 bridge) East Fork Grassy Creek Grassy Creek (East Fork Grassy Creek to mouth) Litte Rock Creek (Green Creek bridge to Big Rock Creek, except where posted against trespassing) North Toe River (Avery Co. ine to S.R bridge) Wid Trout Waters Green Creek (above Green Creek bridge, except where posted against trespassing) Litte Rock Creek (above Green Creek, incuding a tributaries, except where posted against trespassing) Wies Creek (game and boundary to mouth) POLK COUNTY Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Green River (Fishtop Fas Access Area to the confuence with Cove Creek) INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION 2016/17 25

28 INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Green River (Mouth of Cove Creek to the natura gas pipeine crossing) North Pacoet River (Joes Creek to N.C. 108 bridge) RUTHERFORD COUNTY Hatchery Supported Trout Waters (Rocky) Broad River (Henderson Co. ine to U.S. 64/74 bridge, except where posted against trespassing) STOKES COUNTY Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Dan River (Virginia state ine downstream to a point 200 yards beow the end of S.R. 1421) SURRY COUNTY Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Ararat River (portion adjacent to Ararat River Greenway) Mitche River (0.6 mie upstream of the end of S.R to the S.R bridge beow Kapps Mi Dam) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Ararat River (S.R bridge downstream to the N.C. 103 bridge) Big Ekin Creek (Dam 440 yards upstream of N.C. 268 bridge to a point 265 yards downstream of N.C. 268 [marked by a sign on each bank]) Fisher River (Cooper Creek) (Virginia state ine to Interstate 77 bridge) Litte Fisher River (Virginia state ine to N.C. 89 bridge) Lovis Creek (U.S. 52 Business bridge to Ararat River) Paus Creek (Virginia state ine to 0.3 mies beow S.R bridge) SWAIN COUNTY Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Tuckasegee River (U.S. 19 bridge to Sope Street bridge) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Aarka Creek (game and boundary to Fontana Reservoir) Caderwood Reservoir (Cheoah Dam to Tennessee state ine) Cheoah Reservoir Conney Creek (Camp Branch to Tuckasegee River) Deep Creek (Great Smoky Mountains Nationa Park boundary ine to Tuckasegee River) Nantahaa River (Macon Co. ine to existing Fontana Reservoir water eve) TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY Catch and Reease/Artificia Fies Ony Trout Waters Davidson River (headwaters to Avery Creek, excuding Avery Creek, Looking Gass Creek and Grogan Creek) Deayed Harvest Trout Waters East Fork French Broad River (Gady Fork to French Broad River) Litte River (confuence of Lake Dense to 100 yards downstream of Hooker Fas) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Davidson River (Avery Creek to ower USFS boundary ine) French Broad River (confuence of North Fork French Broad River and West Fork French Broad River to the Isand Ford Rd. [S.R. 1110] Access Area) Midde Fork French Broad River (upstream U.S. 178 bridge to French Broad River) West Fork French Broad River (Camp Cove Branch to confuence with North Fork French Broad) Wid Trout Waters A waters ocated on Gorges State Park Whitewater River (downstream from Siver Run Creek to South Caroina state ine) Wid Trout/Natura Bait Waters North Fork French Broad River (game and portion down stream of S.R. 1326) Thompson River (S.R to South Caroina state ine, except where posted against trespassing) WATAUGA COUNTY Catch and Reease/Artificia Lures Ony Trout Waters Dugger Creek (portions on Bue Ridge Mountain Cub incuding tributaries) Laure Creek (portions on Bue Ridge Mountain Cub and Powder Horn Mountain Deveopment, incuding tributaries) Pond Creek (headwaters to Locust Ridge Road bridge, excuding the pond adjacent to Coffee Lake) Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Lake Coffey Watauga River upper (S.R bridge to N.C. 194 bridge at Vae Crucis) Watauga River ower (S.R bridge to confuence with Laure Creek) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Beaverdam Creek (confuence of Beaverdam Creek and Litte Beaverdam Creek to an unnamed tributary adjacent to the intersection of S.R and S.R. 1203) Beech Creek Buckeye Creek (Buckeye Creek Reservoir dam to Grassy Gap Creek) Buckeye Creek Reservoir Cove Creek (S.R bridge at Zionvie to S.R bridge at Amantha) Dutch Creek (second bridge on S.R to mouth) Ek Creek (S.R bridge at Tripett to Wikes Co. ine, except where posted against trespassing) Laure Creek (S.R bridge at S.R intersection to Watauga River) Meat Camp Creek (S.R bridge at S.R intersection to N.C. 194) Midde Fork New River (Lake Chetoa dam to South Fork New River) Norris Fork Creek South Fork New River (canoe aunch 70 yards upstream of U.S. 421 bridge to ower boundary of Brookshire Park) Stony Fork (S.R bridge at S.R intersection to Wikes Co. ine) Wid Trout Waters Dutch Creek (headwaters to second bridge on S.R. 1134) Howard Creek Maine Branch (headwaters to North Fork New River) North Fork New River (from confuence with Maine and Mine branches to Ashe Co. ine) Watauga River (Avery Co. ine to S.R bridge) Winker Creek (ower bridge on S.R to confuence with South Fork New River) WILKES COUNTY Catch and Reease/Artificia Lures Ony Trout Waters Dugger Creek (portion on Bue Ridge Mountain Cub incuding tributaries) Harris Creek (portion on Stone Mountain State Park) Deayed Harvest Trout Waters East Prong Roaring River (Buhead Creek downstream to Stone Mountain State Park ower boundary) Ek Creek upper (Watauga Co. ine to ower boundary of Bue Ridge Mountain Cub) Ek Creek ower (portion on Leatherwood Mountains Deveopment) /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

29 Reddies River (Town of North Wikesboro water intake dam to confuence with Yadkin River) Stone Mountain Creek (from fas at Aeghany Co. ine to con - fuence with East Prong Roaring River and Buhead Creek) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Be Branch Pond Boundary Line Pond Cub Creek (0.5 mies upstream of S.R bridge to S.R bridge) Darne Creek (North Prong Reddies River) (downstream ford on S.R to confuence with North Fork Reddies River) East Prong Roaring River (Stone Mountain State Park ower boundary to S.R bridge) Fa Creek (S.R bridge to confuence with South Prong Lewis Fork, except where posted against trespassing) Midde Fork Reddies River (Cear Prong) (headwaters to bridge on S.R. 1580) Midde Prong Roaring River (headwaters to second bridge on S.R. 1736) North Fork Reddies River (Vannoy Creek) (headwaters to Union Schoo bridge on S.R. 1559) Pike Creek Pike Creek Pond South Fork Reddies River (S.R bridge to confuence with Midde Fork Reddies River) South Prong Lewis Fork (Fa Creek to S.R bridge) Wid Trout Waters Big Sandy Creek (portion on Stone Mountain State Park) Garden Creek (portion on Stone Mountain State Park) Widow Creek (portion on Stone Mountain State Park) YANCEY COUNTY Catch and Reease/Artificia Fies Ony Trout Waters South Toe River (headwaters to Upper Creek, incuding tributaries) Upper Creek (headwaters to South Toe River, incuding tributaries) ATTENTION TROUT ANGLERS Water dogs need your hep! Did you know Eastern Hebenders (a.k.a. water dogs ) are harmess, nonvenomous, giant, crayfish-eating, aquatic saamanders that are indicators of good water quaity and heathy streams? Did you know that thriving, diverse fish popuations and heathy he - bender popuations go hand-in-hand? The Widife Resources Commission wants to conserve this amazing mountain creature and needs your hep. If you accidentay catch a hebender on hook and ine, pease immediatey reease the anima at the spot of capture by carefuy removing the hook or cutting the ine as cose as possibe to the hook. Let us know where you found a hebender by caing so we can map their distribution. THANKS! Deayed Harvest Trout Waters Cane River (Backberry Ridge Road to downstream boundary of Cane River County Park) Hatchery Supported Trout Waters Bad Mountain Creek (except where posted against trespassing) Cane River (Bee Branch [S.R. 1110] to Bowens Creek) Price Creek (junction of S.R and S.R to Indian Creek) South Toe River (Cear Creek to ower boundary ine of Yancey Co. recreation park, except where posted against trespassing) Wid Trout Waters Cattai Creek (bridge at Mountain Farm Community Road to N.C. 197 bridge) Lickskiet Creek Midde Creek (game and boundary to mouth) Mountain Heritage Trout Waters Some Pubic Mountain Trout Waters running through or adjacent to certain cities or towns may be further cassified as Mountain Heritage Trout Waters. Any icense that provides trout fishing privieges may be used to fish on Mountain Heritage Trout Waters. Resident and nonresident angers may instead purchase a three-day Mountain Heritage Trout Waters icense vaid ony on Mountain Heritage Trout Waters. This icense is $5 for both residents and nonresidents and can be purchased onine at ncwidife.org or by caing , 8 a.m. 5 p.m., Monday Friday. The foowing waters are cassified as Mountain Heritage Trout Waters and isted by county, Mountain Heritage Trout City name and reguation type. The boundaries for Mountain Heritage Trout Waters are marked with signs posted conspicuousy aong the watercourses. Ashe County Lansing: Big Horse Creek (S.R bridge to North Fork New River) [Deayed Harvest Trout Waters reguations appy] Todd: South Fork New River (upstream end of Todd Isand to S.R bridge) [Deayed Harvest Trout Waters reguations appy] Avery County Newand: North Toe River (Watauga St. bridge to Roby Shomaker Wet ands and Famiy Recreation Park) [Hatchery Supported Trout Waters reguations appy] Haywood County Maggie Vaey: Jonathan Creek (upstream S.R bridge to S.R bridge) [Hatchery Supported Trout Waters reguations appy] Waynesvie: Richand Creek (Russ Avenue bridge to U.S. 19 bridge) [Hatchery Supported Trout Waters reguations appy] Jackson County Disboro: Scott Creek (Hometown Pace Road to Tuckasegee River) [Hatchery Supported Trout Waters reguations appy] Tuckasegee River (Fas ocated 275 yards upstream of U.S bridge to Scott Creek) [Hatchery Supported Trout Waters reguations appy] Tuckasegee River (Savannah Creek to fas ocated 275 yards upstream of U.S bridge) [Deayed Harvest Trout Waters reguations appy] Syva: Scott Creek (Hospita Road to Hometown Pace Road) [Hatchery Supported Trout Waters reguations appy] Webster: Tuckasegee River (downstream N.C. 107 bridge to Savannah Creek) [Deayed Harvest Trout Waters reguations appy] Madison County Hot Springs: Spring Creek (N.C. 209 bridge at Hot Springs city imits to iron bridge at end of Andrews Avenue) [Deayed Harvest Trout Waters reguations appy] 2016/17 27 INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION

30 INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION McDowe County Od Fort: Mi Creek (U.S. 70 bridge to the I-40 bridge) [Deayed Harvest Trout Waters reguations appy] Mitche County Bakersvie: Cane Creek (N.C. 226 bridge to S.R bridge) [Deayed Harvest Trout Waters reguations appy] Spruce Pine: North Toe River (U.S. 19E bridge to N.C. 226 bridge) [Deayed Harvest Trout Waters reguations appy] Yancey County Burnsvie: South Toe River (property boundaries of the Yancey County Toe River Campground) [Hatchery Supported Trout Waters reguations appy] Trout Fishing on Game Lands A waters on the game ands isted beow are Pubic Mountain Trout Waters and are cassified as Wid Trout Waters, except as noted: - Cod Mountain Game Land in Haywood Co. - Dupont State Forest Game Land in Henderson and Transyvania counties, except Litte River from 100 yards downstream of Hooker Fas downstream to the Dupont State Forest boundary, Lake Imaging, Lake Dense, Lake Afred, Lake Juia, and Fawn Lake. - Green River Game Land in Henderson and Pok counties, excuding Green River downstream of the natura gas pipeine crossing. - Nantahaa Nationa Forest Game Land in Cherokee, Cay, Graham, Jackson, Macon, Swain and Transyvania counties, except Cheoah River downstream of Santeetah Reservoir and Cherokee Lake. - Pisgah Nationa Forest Game Land in Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cadwe, Haywood, Henderson, Madison, McDowe, Mitche, Transyvania and Yancey counties, except Grogan Creek, North Fork Catawba River downstream of the mouth of Armstrong Creek, Big Laure Creek downstream from the U.S bridge to the French Broad River, Mi Ridge Pond, Noichucky River, Pigeon River downstream of Watervie Reservoir to the Tennessee state ine, and Spring Creek beow USFS Road Pond Mountain Game Land in Ashe Co. - South Mountains Game Land in Ceveand and Rutherford counties. - Three Top Mountain Game Land in Ashe Co. - Thurmond Chatham Game Land in Wikes Co. - Toxaway Game Land in Transyvania Co. Trout Fishing on the Bue Ridge Parkway Anging opportunities on the Bue Ridge Parkway are managed by the Nationa Park Service which estabishes fishing reguations for parkway waters. The Widife Resources Commission aides with management by stocking catchabe-size trout into the foowing waters: County Water Aeghany Brush Creek Aeghany Big Pine Creek Aeghany Meadow Fork Avery Linvie River Buncombe Swannanoa River Watauga Midde Fork of the New River Watauga Price Lake Specific fishing reguations are dispayed on signs ocated near fish - ing access points, and a persons age 16 or oder must possess a vaid North Caroina or Virginia fishing icense to fish parkway waters. In addition, the parkway provides wid and catch-andreease trout fishing, as we as, anging for bass and sunfish. For more information on fishing in parkway waters, contact: Bue Ridge Parkway, 199 Hemphi Knob Road, Ashevie, NC Teephone: , or at their website: Trout Fishing on North Caroina State Parks Fishing in waters within a state park is imited to park operating hours. Additiona park information may be obtained at ncparks.gov or by contacting the foowing park offices: South Mountains State Park Stone Mountain State Park Gorges State Park NONGAME FISH Any fish not cassified as a game fish is con sidered a nongame fish when found in inand fishing waters and incudes shefish and crustaceans. Sae of Nongame Fish Nongame fish caught on hook and ine, grabbing and by specia fishing devices may be sod, subject to the foowing restrictions: 1. Bowfin may not be sod. 2. Bueback herring and aewife taken by any method in inand waters may not be sod, except for those fish ess than six inches in ength that are taken from Kerr Reservoir (Granvie, Vance, and Warren counties). 3. American ee ess than nine inches in ength taken from inand fishing waters may not be possessed or sod. 4. In Lake Tiery, Lake Wyie, Mountain Isand Reservoir, Lake Norman and Badin Lake the daiy possession imit for bue catfish greater than 32 inches in ength is one. 5. Bue crabs taken from inand fishing waters with a ine containing mutipe baits may not be sod. 6. Seasons and size and cree imits for gray trout are the same as those recreationa imits estabished by Division of Marine Fisher ies in adjacent joint and coasta fishing waters. For current imits, see porta.ncdenr.org/web/mf/recreationa-fishing-sizeand-bag-imits or ca or Those isted under Misceaneous Prohibitions on page A specia fishing device icense is required when taking nongame fish with specia fishing devices and aso subject to restrictions isted under Specia Fishing Devices, on page 30, Seasons and Waters on pages 31 35, and Fishing on Game Lands on page 22. The sae of commerciay raised nongame fish is reguated by the NC Department of Agricuture and Consumer Services. Manner of Taking Nongame Fish Nongame fish may be taken by hook and ine or by grabbing; no fish may be taken by snagging. Specia devices may be used to take nongame fish with proper icenses (see Specia Fishing Devices, page 30) in those counties and waters with open seasons (see Seasons and Waters pages 31 35). Nongame fishes may be taken year-round with archery equipment (see page 42) under any icense that authorizes basic hunting or inand fishing privieges in waterfow impoundments ocated entirey on game ands and in a inand fishing waters other than the impounded waters on the Sandhis Game Land, Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, and reservoirs with restrictions on taking grass carp isted on page 29. For specia rues governing trotines, see Trotines, Set-hooks and Jug-hooks (page 18) /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

31 Crab pots may not be used in inand fishing waters or in designated water fow impoundments ocated on game ands, except that persons owning property adjacent to the inand fishing waters of coasta rivers and their tributaries may set two crab pots attached to their property and a specia device icense is not required. Bue crabs may be taken recreationay with a singe ine with mutipe baits without hooks (see restrictions under Taking Nongame Fish, Crustaceans, and Mousks for Bait or Persona Consumption beow). Hook-and-Line Reguations for Nongame Fish * Season: Year-round * Minimum size imit: None * Daiy cree imit: None The foowing exceptions appy: The daiy cree imit on channe, white and bue catfish (forked-tai catfish) is six fish in a game ands ponds and in the foowing waters: Aamance Aexander Buncombe Cabarrus Cumberand Edgecombe Forsyth Gaston Granvie Guiford Lee Lenoir Meckenburg Moore Orange Pitt Pok Richmond Rowan Stany Surry Cedarock Park Pond Eendae Community Center Pond Azaea Park Pond Chares Owen Park Pond Lake Juian Lake Tomahawk Frank Liske Park Pond TN Spencer Park Pond Lake Rim* Etheridge Pond* Indian Lake Newbod Pond* CG Hi Memoria Park Pond Kernersvie Lake Viage Point Lake Winston Park Pond* Daas Park Pond George Poston Park Pond Lake Devin Bur-Mi Park Ponds Country Park Pond Hagan Stone Park Ponds Keeey Park Ponds Oka T Hester Pond San-Lee Park Ponds Neuseway Nature Center Pond Freedom Park Pond* Hornet s Nest Park Pond McApine Lake Robbins Park Ponds Squirre Lake Lake Luke Marion Anderson Community Park Pond Lake Michae River Park North Ponds Laughter Pond Eerbe Community Lake Hamet City Lake Hinson Lake Dan Nichoas Park Pond Saisbury Community Park Lake Abemare City Lake Big Ekin Creek Tumbing Rock Reservoir Union Dogwood Park Pond Wake Bass Lake Bond Park Pond Harris Lake County Park Pond Pine Lake in Apex Community Park Lake Raeigh* Sheey Lake Simpkins Pond in Lake Wheeer Park Yadkin Yadkin County Park Pond *Use of gasoine engines to power boats is prohibited. In Lake Tiery, Lake Wyie, Mountain Isand Reservoir, Lake Norman and Badin Lake the daiy cree imit for bue cat fish greater than 32 inches in ength is one. There is no open season for sturgeon. Any sturgeon caught must be immediatey reeased. No more than 25 American ee, none of which may be ess than nine inches in ength, may be taken or possessed, regardess of origin, whie boating on or fishing in inand fishing waters. Bue crabs taken by hook and ine from inand fishing waters or in designated waterfow impoundments ocated on game ands must have a minimum carapace width of five inches (point to point). The daiy imit is 50 crabs per person or 100 per vesse per day. No herring (aewife and bueback) greater than six inches in ength may be taken or possessed, regardess of origin, whie boating on or fishing in inand fishing waters of coasta rivers and their tributaries up to the first impound ment of the main course on the river (isted beow), the Lumber River incuding Drowning Creek, and in a other inand fishing waters east of Interstate Roanoke River Roanoke Rapids Dam - Tar River Rocky Mount Mi Dam - Neuse River Miburnie Dam - Cape Fear River Buckhorn Dam - Waccamaw River Lake Waccamaw Dam - Pee-Dee River Bewett Fas Dam Grass carp may not be possessed on Lake James, Lookout Shoas Lake, Lake Norman, Mountain Isand Reservoir, Lake Wyie, and John H. Kerr Reservoir, except that one fish per day may be taken and possessed with archery equipment (see page 42). Grass carp may not be possessed or taken with archery equipment (see page 42) on Lake Gaston and Roanoke Rapids Reservoir except for scientific study by permit issued by the Widife Resources Commission (S.L ). Seasons and size and cree imits for gray trout are the same as those recreationa imits estabished by Division of Marine Fisher ies in adjacent joint and coasta fishing waters. For current imits, see porta.ncdenr.org/web/mf/recreationa-fishing-sizeand-bag-imits or ca or In Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, the season sha be the same as the trout-fishing season. Information and reguations about fishing on game ands are isted on page 22. Taking Nongame Fish, Crustaceans, and Mousks for Bait or Persona Consumption Nongame fishes, crustaceans (crayfish and bue crabs), and mo - usks taken for bait or persona consumption may not be sod. Nongame fishes, crustaceans, and mousks may be taken for bait or persona consumption ony with the equipment isted beow, and any vaid icense that provides basic inand fishing privieges is ony required. (See regu a tions for taking and sae of INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION 2016/17 29

32 INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION nongame fish on pages and other nongame reguations on page 42 for more information). 1. A dip net not greater than six feet across. 2. A seine not greater than 12 feet in ength with a bar mesh measure of not more than 1 /4 inch, except in Lake Waccamaw any ength seine may be used to coect bait fishes. 3. A cast net. 4. A bow net in those counties and waters with open seasons (see Seasons and Waters pages 31-35). 5. Dip nets used in conjunction with a icensed hand-crank eectrofisher where authorized by oca aw. 6. Minnow traps under immediate contro and attendance of the operator and not exceeding 12 inches in diameter, with funne openings not exceeding one inch in diameter. 7. A gig except in Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. 8. Traps (no more than three) in those counties and waters with open seasons (see Seasons and Waters pages 31-35). 9. Ee pots (no more than two). 10. A spear gun in those counties and waters with open seasons (see Seasons and Waters page 30-34). 11. Hand-hed ines with singe baits attached to each. 12. A singe, mutipe bait ine for taking crabs not to exceed 100 feet in ength that is under the immediate contro and attendance of the user and is imited to one ine per person and no more than one ine per vesse. The ine is required to be marked on each end with a soid foat no ess than five inches in diameter and bearing egibe and indeibe identification of the user s name and address. 13. A coapsibe crab trap with the argest opening not greater than 18 inches and which, by design, coapses at a times when in the water, except when being retrieved or owered to the bottom. The daiy cree imit is 200 nongame fish, crayfish, and mousks, in combination, subject to the foowing restrictions: 1. No more than 25 American ee, none of which may be ess than nine inches in ength, may be taken or possessed, regardess of origin, whie boating on or fishing in inand fishing waters. 2. No herring (aewife and bueback) greater than six inches in ength may be taken or possessed, regardess of origin, whie boating on or fishing in inand fishing waters of coasta rivers and their tributaries up to the first impoundment dam on the main course of the river, the Lumber River incuding Drowning Creek, and a other inand fishing waters east of Interstate No more than 50 crabs per person, per day or 100 per vesse, per day with a minimum carapace width of five inches (point to point) from inand fishing waters or in designated waterfow impoundments ocated on game ands. 4. In Lake Tiery, Lake Wyie, Mountain Isand Reservoir, Lake Norman and Badin Lake the daiy cree imit for bue catfish greater than 32 inches in ength is one. 5. Seasons and size and cree imits for gray trout are the same as those recreationa imits estabished by Division of Marine Fisher ies in adjacent joint and coasta fishing waters. For current imits, see porta.ncdenr.org/web/mf/recreationa-fishing-sizeand-bag-imits or ca or Any fish taken for bait purposes are incuded in the daiy posses - sion imit for that species (where such a imit is specified). Nongame fish may not be taken for bait from Bear Creek and Rocky River, Chatham County; Fork Creek, Randoph County; Deep River beow Coeridge Dam, Randoph County; and those portions of Deep River in Moore, Chatham and Lee counties. Game fish incidentay taken with nets or traps, whie capturing bait, must not be harmed and must be reeased immediatey. Taking Freshwater Musses Freshwater musses, incuding the Asiatic cam (Corbicua fuminea), may ony be taken from impounded waters, except musses sha not be taken in Lake Waccamaw and in University Lake (Orange County). The daiy possession imit for freshwater musses is 200 in the aggregate, except there is no daiy possession imit for the Asiatic cam (Corbicua fuminea). Specia Fishing Devices Specia fishing devices, which may be icensed for the taking of nongame fishes, incude the foowing: archery equipment (see page 42), seines, cast nets, gi nets, dip nets, bow nets, rees, gigs, spear guns, baskets, fish pots, ee pots, traps (excuding crab traps and automobie tires), and hand-crank eectrofishers where authorized by oca aw. Specia fishing devices may ony be used in waters having designated seasons. See ist (by county) under Seasons and Waters on pages Hand-crank eectrofishers are any manuay operated device capabe of generating a ow-votage eectrica current, not to exceed 300 vots, for the taking of catfish. Term and Use of Specia Device Licenses The icense is vaid during a icense year (12 months from date of purchase). Each user of a specia device must have his own icense in possession, except that a bow net or dip net may be used by another person who has the owner s icense in his possession. Ony the principa owner or operator must be icensed when drag seines are used at inand beaches to take muet. Dip nets may be used in conjunction with a icensed hand-crank eectrofisher where authorized by oca aw to take nongame fish for bait or persona consumption in inand fishing waters with any vaid icense that provides basic inand fishing privieges. Nongame fishes may be taken with archery equipment (see page 42) under any icense that authorizes basic hunting or fishing privieges. Netting Restrictions Stationary nets must not exceed 100 yards in ength and must be spaced at east 50 yards apart. Attendance requires that a fisherman be within 100 yards of his net at a times. Stationary nets must run parae to the nearest shoreine. Anchored, fixed or drift gi nets must be marked at each end with two separate yeow buoys, which sha be of soid foam or other soid buoyant materia no ess than five inches in their smaest dimension. Buoys on each of the nets sha be marked (by engrav ing buoys or attaching engraved meta or pastic tags) with one of the foowing: owner s N.C. vesse registration number, owner s U.S. vesse documentation name or owner s ast name and initias. No wires or ropes associated with a specia fishing device may extend across any navigabe watercourse. Fish-Trap Restrictions A fish trap may be no more than 60 inches in ength and no more than 30 inches in depth or width. No ead nets, wing nets or other devices may be attached to the trap nor used within 25 feet of the trap. Such devices, when set and eft unattended, sha be affixed with a card or tag furnished by the icense-hoder and upon which his name and address sha be egiby inscribed /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

33 Ee Pot Restrictions It is unawfu to use ee pots with mesh sizes smaer than one-haf inch by one-haf inch. Each ee pot must be marked by attaching a foating buoy, which sha be of soid foam or other soid buoyant materia and no ess than five inches in diameter and no ess than five inches in ength. Buoys may be of any coor except yeow. The owner sha aways be identified on the attached buoy by using engraved buoys or by engraved meta or pastic tags attached to the buoy. Such identification sha incude one of the foowing: owner s N.C. vesse registration number, owner s U.S. vesse documenta tion name, or owner s ast name and initias. Seasons and Waters There is no open season for sturgeon. Any sturgeon caught must be immediatey reeased. No river herring greater than six inches in ength may be taken or possessed, regardess of origin, whie boating on or fishing in inand fishing waters of coasta rivers and their tributaries, up to the first impound ment of the main course of the river (isted on page 29), the Lumber River, incuding Drowning Creek, and a other inand fishing waters east of Interstate 95. Nongame fish may be taken year-round with archery equipment (see page 42) in waterfow impoundments ocated entirey on game ands and in a inand fishing waters other than the impounded waters on the Sandhis Game Land, Pubic Mountain Trout Waters, and reservoirs with restrictions on taking grass carp isted on page 29. No specia fishing devices, incuding crab pots, may be used in designated waterfow impoundments ocated on game ands. Exception: Nongame fish may be taken year-round with archery equipment (see page 42) from waterfow impoundments ocated entirey on game ands other than the impounded waters on the Sandhis Game Land. Seasons and waters, in which use of specia devices other than archery equipment (see page 42) is authorized, are indicated by the foowing counties: Aamance: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in Aamance Creek beow N.C. 49 bridge and Haw River. Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters. Aexander: Juy 1 June 30 with traps and gigs in a pubic waters; and with spear guns in Lake Hickory and Lookout Shoas Reservoir. Aeghany: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in New River, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Anson: Juy 1 June 30 with traps and gigs in a pubic waters. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in Pee Dee River beow Bewett Fas Dam. Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters, except Pee Dee River from Bewett Fas Dam downstream to the Seaboard Coastine Rairoad treste. Ashe: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in New River (both forks), except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Beaufort: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in the Pungo River and in the Tar-Pamico River above Norfok and Southern Rairoad bridge; and with gigs in a inand pubic waters. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters. Bertie: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in Broad Creek (tributary of Roanoke River). March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, excuding pubic akes, ponds and other impounded waters. Baden: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in Back River; Juy 1 March 1 with hand-crank eectrofishers in Cape Fear River between Locks and Dams 1 and 3 and Back River (oca aw), except that hand-crank eectrofishing is prohibited within 800 feet downstream and 400 yards upstream of Lock and Dam 1; 400 yards downstream and upstream of Lock and Dam 2; and 400 yards downstream of Lock and Dam 3. Brunswick: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in Aigator Creek, Hoods Creek, Indian Creek, Orton Creek beow Orton Pond, Rices Creek, Sturgeon Creek and Town Creek. Buncombe: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Burke: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters, except Johns River and Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Juy 1 June 30 with traps, gigs and spear guns in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters and Lake James. Fishing by use of an unattended foat is prohibited on Lake James (oca aw). Cabarrus: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters. Juy 1 June 30 with traps and gigs in a pubic waters. Cadwe: Juy 1 June 30 with traps, gigs and spear guns in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Camden: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in a inand pubic waters. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, excuding pubic akes, ponds and other impounded waters. Carteret: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, except South River and the tributaries of the White Oak River. Caswe: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters. Juy1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters, except Moons Creek. Juy 1 June 30 with traps in Hyco Reservoir. Catawba: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters, except Catawba River beow Lookout Dam. Juy 1 June 30 with traps, spear guns and gigs in a pubic waters. Chatham: Dec. 1 Apri 15 with dip and gi nets in the Cape Fear River, Haw River, Deep River and Rocky River (oca aw). Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in the Cape Fear River and Haw River. Juy 1 June 30 with traps in Deep River; and with gigs in a pubic waters. Cherokee: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Chowan: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, excuding pubic akes, ponds and other impounded waters. Juy 1 June 30 with traps in a inand pubic waters, excuding pubic akes, ponds and other impounded waters. Cay: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Ceveand: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters. Juy 1 June 30 with gigs, traps and spear guns in a pubic waters. Coumbus: Dec. 1 March 1 with gigs in a inand pubic waters, except Lake Waccamaw and its tributaries. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in Livingston Creek. Juy 1 March 1 with hand-crank eectrofishers in Waccamaw and Lumber rivers (oca aw). Craven: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in the main run of the Trent and Neuse rivers. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, except Pitch Kette, Grinde, Socum (down stream from the U.S. 70 bridge), Spring and Hancock creeks and their tributaries; and with seines in the Neuse River. Currituck: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in Tus Creek and Northwest River. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, excuding pubic akes, ponds and other impounded waters. Dare: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in Mashoes Creek, Mitai Creek, East Lake and South Lake. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, excuding pubic akes, ponds and other impounded waters. 2016/17 31 INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION

34 INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Davidson: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters. Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters; and with traps in a pubic waters except Leonard s Creek, Abbott s Creek beow Lake Thom-A-Lex Dam and the Abbott s Creek arm of High Rock Lake upstream from the N.C. 8 bridge. Davie: Juy 1 June 30 with traps and gigs in a pubic waters. Juy 1 Aug. 31 for taking ony carp and suckers with seines in Dutch man s Creek from U.S. 601 to Yadkin River and in Hunting Creek from S.R to South Yadkin River. Dupin: Dec. 1 June 5 with seines in the main run of the Northeast Cape Fear River downstream from a point one mie above Serecta Bridge. March 1-Apri 30 with bow nets in the main run of the Northeast Cape Fear River downstream from a point one mie above Serecta Bridge. Durham: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in Neuse River. Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters. Edgecombe: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a pubic waters. Forsyth: Juy 1 June 30 with traps and gigs in a pubic waters, except traps may not be used in Beews Creek Reservoir. Frankin: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in Tar River. Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Parrish, Laure Mi, Jackson, Cifton, Moore s and Perry s ponds, and in the Frankinton city ponds. Gaston: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters. Juy 1 June 30 with gigs, traps and spear guns in a pubic waters. Gates: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, excuding pubic akes, ponds and other impounded waters. Graham: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Specia devices are not permitted on Santeetah Lake, Fontana Lake, Cheoah Reservoir and Caderwood Reservoir (oca aw). Granvie: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Kerr Reservoir. Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in the Tar River beow U.S. 158 bridge. Juy 1 June 30 with dip and cast nets in Kerr Reservoir. Greene: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets and rees in Contentnea Creek. Guiford: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in Haw River, Deep River beow Jamestown Dam and Reedy Fork Creek beow U.S. 29 bridge. Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters. Haifax: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in Beech Swamp, Carks Cana, Conoconnara Swamp, Fishing Creek beow the Fishing Creek Mi Dam, Kehukee Swamp, Looking Gass Gut, Quankey Creek and White s Mi Pond Run. Apri 1 June 15 in Fishing Creek on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, shad and herring (not to exceed 6 inches in ength) may be taken with skim or gi nets having a bar mesh of not ess than 1.5 inch (oca aw). Harnett: Jan. 1 May 31 with gigs in Cape Fear River and tribu taries. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in Cape Fear River. Haywood: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Lake Junauska and Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Henderson: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Hertford: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in Wiccacon Creek. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, excud ing pubic akes, ponds and other impounded waters. Hyde: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in a inand waters. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, excuding pubic akes, ponds and other impounded waters. Irede: Juy 1 June 30 with traps and gigs in a pubic waters; and with spear guns in Lookout Shoas Reservoir and Lake Norman. Jackson: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Johnston: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in Back Creek, Litte River, Midde Creek, Mi Creek, Neuse River and Swift Creek. Jones: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in the Trent River beow U.S. 17 bridge and White Oak River beow U.S. 17 bridge. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, except the tributaries to White Oak River. (continued on page 34) STOP AQUATIC HITCHHIKERS! For more information, incuding recommendations for ceaning anything that comes into contact with water, visit: CLEAN AND DRY ANYTHING THAT COMES INTO CONTACT WITH WATER Invasive aquatic pants, such as hydria and giant savinia; exotic musses, such as zebra and quagga musses; and even agae, ike didymo or rock snot, can hitch a ride on fishing and boating gear. Once estabished, they cause extensive damage to aquatic systems. We need your hep to prevent the spread of nuisance species. When you eave a body of water: Remove any visibe mud, pants, fish or animas before transporting equipment. Eiminate water from equipment before transporting. Cean and dry anything that comes into contact with water (boats, traiers, equipment, cothing, dogs, etc.). Never reease pants, fish or animas into a body of water uness they came out of that body of water /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

35 FISH CONSUMPTION ADVISORIES Eevated eves of some poutants may be found in certain fish caught by the pubic or sod commerciay in the United States. For more information, contact N.C. Dept. of Heath and Human Services at or see epi.pubicheath.nc.gov and cick on Fish Consumption Advisories. The foowing tabe ists current fish consumption advisories for North Caroina inand fishing waters: Statewide Statewide South and east of Interstate 85 South and east of Interstate 95 Abemare Sound from Bu Bay to Harvey Point west to the mouths of the Roanoke and Chowan rivers (Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Chowan, Bertie, Washington and Tyrre counties) Roanoke River from U.S. Hwy. 17 bridge near Wiiamston to the mouth of Abemare Sound (Martin, Bertie and Washington counties) Wech Creek (Martin, Beaufort and Washington counties) Brier Creek Reservoir (Wake County), Brier Creek _ downstream of Brier Creek Reser voir, and Litte Brier Creek and tributaries downstream of Brier Creek Parkway Lake Crabtree (Wake County) Body of Water Advisory Poutant Crabtree Creek (Wake County) above and beow Lake Crabtree to Neuse River Neuse River (Wake County) downstream of Crabtree Creek to Auburn-Knightdae Road Wanut Creek (Wake County) and Rocky Branch tributary just upstream of confuence with Neuse River Santeetah Lake (Graham County) and Fontana Lake (Graham and Swain counties) Largemouth bass. No consumption by women of chidbearing age, pregnant women, nursing mothers and chidren under 15. No more than one mea per week for a other peope. Buegi sunfish and trout. No more than two meas per week for women of chidbearing age, pregnant women, nursing mothers and chidren under 15. No more than four meas per week for a other peope. Backfish (bowfin), Catfish (caught wid), Jack fish (chain pickere), Warmouth, and Yeow perch. No consumption by women of chidbearing age, pregnant women, nursing mothers and chidren under 15. No more than one mea per week for a other peope. Back crappie. No consumption by women of chidbearing age, pregnant women, nursing mothers and chidren under 15. No more than one mea per week for a other peope. Carp and catfish. No consumption by women of chidbearing age or chidren. No more than one mea per month for a other peope. Carp and catfish. No consumption by women of chidbearing age or chidren. No more than one mea per month for a other peope. Carp and catfish. No consumption by women of chidbearing age or chidren. No more than one mea per month for a other peope. A fish. No consumption. Carp and catfish. No consumption. A other fish. No more than one mea per month. Carp, catfish and argemouth bass. No more than one mea per month. Carp and catfish. No more than one mea per month. Carp and catfish. No more than one mea per month. A other fish. No more than one mea per week. Waeye. No consumption by women of chidbearing age, pregnant women or chidren under 15. No more than one mea per week for a other peope. Mercury Mercury Mercury Mercury Dioxins Dioxins Dioxins PCBs PCBs PCBs PCBs PCBs Mercury INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Badin Lake (Stany and Montgomery counties) Lake Gaston (Warren, Haifax, and Northampton counties) Mountain Isand Reservoir (Gaston and Meckenburg counties) Mountain Isand Reservoir (Gaston and Meckenburg counties) Mountain Isand Reservoir (Gaston and Meckenburg counties) Lake Wyie (Gaston and Meckenburg counties) Lake Chatuge (Cay County) Lake Nantahaa (Macon County) Lake Norman (Catawba, Irede, Lincon and Meckenburg counties) Lake Norman (Catawba, Irede, Lincon and Meckenburg counties) Fas Reservoir (Montgomery and Stany counties), High Rock Lake (Davidson and Rowan counties), and Lake Tiery (Montgomery and Stany counties) Dan River in North Caroina downstream of the Duke Energy Dan River Steam Station Spi Site (Caswe and Rockingham counties) Lake Genvie (Jackson County) Catfish and argemouth bass. No consumption by women of chidbearing age, pregnant women or chidren under 15. No more than one mea per week for a other peope. Waeye and argemouth bass. No consumption by women of chidbearing age, pregnant women or chidren under 15. No more than one to two meas per month for a other peope. Channe catfish. No consumption. Largemouth bass. No consumption by women of chidbearing age, pregnant women, nursing women or chidren under 15. No more than two meas per month for a other peope. Bue catfish. No consumption by women of chidbearing age, pregnant women, nursing women or chidren under 15. No more than one mea per month for a other peope. Largemouth bass. No consumption by women of chidbearing age, pregnant women, nursing women or chidren under 15. No more than two meas per month for a other peope. White bass and argemouth bass. No consumption by women of chidbearing age or chidren under 15. No more than one mea per week for a other peope. Smamouth bass, waeye, yeow perch, and argemouth bass. No consumption by women of chidbearing age or chidren under 15. No more than one mea per week for a other peope. Striped bass. No consumption by women of chidbearing age, pregnant women, nursing women or chidren under 15. No more than one mea per week for a other peope. Largemouth bass. No consumption by women of chidbearing age, pregnant women, nursing women or chidren under 15. No more than two meas per month for a other peope. Catfish. No consumption by women of chidbearing age, pregnant women, nursing women or chidren under 15. No more than one mea per week for a other peope. A fish and shefish. No consumption. Smamouth bass, waeye and argemouth bass. No consumption by women of chidbearing age, pregnant women, nursing women or chidren under 15. No more than one mea per month of smamouth bass or waeye for a other peope. No more than one mea per week of argemouth bass for a other peope. 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36 INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Lee: Dec. 1 Apri 15 with dip and gi nets in Cape Fear River and Deep River (oca aw). Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in Cape Fear River. Juy 1 June 30 with traps in Deep River; and with gigs in a pubic waters. Lenoir: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in Neuse River beow U.S. 70 bridge at Kinston. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in Neuse River and Contentnea Creek upstream from N.C. 118 bridge at Grifton; and with seines in Neuse River. Lincon: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters. Juy 1 June 30 with traps, gigs and spear guns in a pubic waters. McDowe: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Juy 1 June 30 with traps, gigs and spear guns in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters and Lake James. Fishing by use of an unattended foat is prohibited on Lake James (oca aw). Macon: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Madison: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Martin: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, excuding pubic akes, ponds and other impounded waters. Meckenburg: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters. Juy 1 June 30 with traps, gigs and spear guns in a pubic waters, except Freedom Park Pond and Hornet s Nest pond. Montgomery: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters, except in Pee Dee River between Tiery Dam and Rocky River. Juy 1 June 30 with traps and gigs in a pubic waters. Moore: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters, except Deep River. Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except akes ocated on the Sandhis Game Land; and with traps in Deep River and its tributaries. Nash: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Tar River. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in the Tar River beow Harris Landing and Fishing Creek beow the Fishing Creek Mi Dam. New Hanover: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, except Sutton (Catfish) Lake. Northampton: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Gaston and Roanoke Rapids reservoirs and the Roanoke River above the U.S. 301 bridge. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in Occoneechee Creek, Od River Landing Gut and Vaughns Creek beow Watsons Mi. Onsow: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in White Oak River beow U.S. 17 bridge. Aug. 1 March 31 with ee pots in the main run of New River between U.S. 17 bridge and the mouth of Hawkins Creek. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in the main run of New River and White Oak River, and in Grant s Creek. Orange: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in Haw River. Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters. Pamico: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, except Dawson Creek. Pasquotank: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in a inand waters, except Dawson Creek. March 1-Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, excuding pubic akes, ponds and other impounded waters. Pender: Dec. 1 June 5 with seines in the main run of the Northeast Cape Fear River. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in the North - east Cape Fear River, Long Creek, Moore s Creek approximatey one mie upstream to New Moon Fishing Camp and Back River. Juy 1 March 1 with hand-crank eectrofishers in Back River (oca aw). Perquimans: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in a inand waters. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, excuding pubic akes, ponds and other impounded waters. Person: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in Hyco Creek and Mayo Creek. Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters. Pitt: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in Neuse River and in Tar River beow the mouth of Hardee Creek east of Greenvie. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, except Grinde Creek, and Contentnea Creek between N.C. 118 bridge at Grifton and the Neuse River. March 1 Apri 30 with seines in Tar River. Pok: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Randoph: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in Deep River above the Coeridge Dam and in Uwharrie River. Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters. Richmond: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters, except Pee Dee River from Bewett Fas Dam downstream to the Seaboard Coastine Rairoad treste. Juy 1 June 30 with traps and gigs in a pubic waters, except akes ocated on the Sand his Game Land. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in Pee Dee River beow Bewett Fas Robeson: Dec. 1 March 1 with gigs in a inand pubic waters. Rockingham: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in Dan River and Haw River. Juy 1 June 30 with traps in Dan River; and with gigs in a pubic waters. Rowan: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters. Juy 1 June 30 with traps and gigs in a pubic waters. Rutherford: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Juy 1 June 30 with traps, gigs and spear guns in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Sampson: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in Big Coharrie Creek, Back River and Six Runs Creek. Juy 1 March 1 with handcrank eectrofishers in Back River downstream of N.C bridge (oca aw). Stany: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters, except Pee Dee River between Tiery Dam and Rocky River. Juy 1 June 30 with traps and gigs in a pubic waters. Stokes: Juy 1 June 30 with traps and gigs in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters; and traps may not be used in Beews Creek Reservoir. Surry: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters; and with traps in the main stem of Yadkin River. Swain: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Specia devices are not permitted on Santeetah Lake, Fontana Lake, Cheoah Reservoir and Caderwood Reservoir (oca aw). Transyvania: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Tyrre: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in Scuppernong River and Aigator Creek. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, excuding Lake Pheps, the drainage canas that connect Lake Pheps and Scuppernong River, pubic akes, ponds and other impounded waters. Union: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in a running pubic waters. Juy 1 June 30 with traps and gigs in a pubic waters. Vance: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in the Tar River. Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Roands, Faukners, Souther ands and Wedon ponds, City Lake, and Kerr Reservoir. Juy 1 June 30 with dip and cast nets in Kerr Reservoir /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

37 Wake: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Sunset, Benson, Wheeer, Raeigh and Johnson akes. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in the Neuse River beow Miburnie Dam, and Swift Creek beow Lake Benson Dam. Warren: Juy 1 Aug. 31 with seines in Fishing Creek, Shocco Creek and Waker Creek, excuding Duck and Hammes Mi ponds. Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, except Duck and Hammes Mi ponds, Kerr Reservoir and Gaston Reservoir. Juy 1 June 30 with dip and cast nets in Kerr Reservoir. Washington: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in a inand pubic waters, excuding Lake Pheps, the drainage canas that connect Lake Pheps and Scuppernong River, pubic akes, ponds and other impounded waters. Wayne: March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in Litte River, Mi Creek and Neuse River. Wikes: Juy 1 June 30 with traps in Yadkin River beow W. Kerr Scott Reservoir; and with gigs and spear guns in a pubic waters, except Pubic Mountain Trout Waters. Wison: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in Contentnea Creek (except Buckhorn Reservoir), incuding unnamed tributaries between Fowers Mi and S.R (Deans) bridge. March 1 Apri 30 with bow nets in Contentnea Creek beow U.S. 301 bridge and in Toisnot Swamp downstream from the Lake Toisnot Dam. Yadkin: Juy 1 June 30 with gigs in a pubic waters, and with traps in the main stem of Yadkin River. If you catch an exotic species such as a snakehead, siver carp, or bighead carp, DO NOT RELEASE IT! Pease keep the fish, freeze it or pace it on ice and contact the Widife Resources Commission at MISCELLANEOUS PROHIBITIONS Possession of Certain Fishes It is unawfu to transport, purchase, possess or se any ive indi v iduas of piranha, waking catfish (Carias batrachus), snake head fish (from the Famiy Channidae, formery Ophio - cephaidae), white amur or grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idea) (see excep tion beow), back carp (Myopharyngodon piceus), bighead carp (Hypophthamichthys nobiis), siver carp (Hypophthamichthys moitrix),swamp or rice ee (Monopterus abus), red shiner (Cyprinea utrensis), rudd (Scar dinius erythropthaomus), round goby (Neogobius meano stomus), tubenose goby (Protero rhinus marmoratus), ruffe (Gym no cephaus cernuus), Japanese mystery snai (Cipangopaudina japonica), Chinese mystery snai (Cipantopaudina chinensis maeata), red-rim meania (Meanoides tubercuatus), virie crayfish (Orconectes (Gremicambarus) viriis), rusty crayfish (Orconectes (Proceri cam - barus) rusticus), Austraian red caw crayfish or red caw (Cherax quadricarinatus) or other species of giant crayfish species in the genus Cherax, or zebra musse (Dreissena poymorpha) or quagga musse (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) or any musse in the famiy Dreissenidae, or to stock any of them in the pubic or private waters of North Caro ina. Certified tripoid grass carp may be bought, possessed and stocked with a permit from the Widife Resources Commission. It is unawfu to take or possess any state or federay designated endangered, threatened, or species of specia concern, incuding sturgeon from the inand waters of North Caroina. It is unawfu to possess, transport or reease ive aewife or bue back herring in the Litte Tennessee River incuding its tributaries and impoundments. It is unawfu to possess, transport or reease ive White Perch in waters in and west of Haywood, Buncombe and Rutherford counties. It is unawfu to stock fish into pubic fishing waters without a permit from the Widife Resources Commission. FISHING ACCESS AREA REGULATIONS It is unawfu to: Use any pubic fishing area for purposes other than fishing, except where faciities are provided and approved uses are posted. A other uses incuding swimming, sunbathing on piers or decks, aunching or mooring jet skis or boats, skiing, buiding fires, operating concessions or other activities not directy associated with fishing are prohibited. Possess a oaded firearm other than a handgun possessed pursuant to a vaid conceaed handgun permit on those pubic fishing areas where conceaed carry is aowed by the andowner. Carrying any oaded firearm, incuding conceaed handguns, is not aowed on pubic fishing areas at Baden Lakes State Forest Game Land, Buckhorn Butner-Fas of Neuse Game Land, Chatham Game Land, DuPont State Forest Game Land, Harris Game Land, Hyco Game Land, Jordan Game Land, Kerr Scott Game Land, Lee Game Land, Mayo Game Land, Pee Dee River Game Land north of U.S 74, Sutton Lake Game Land, Vance Game Land, the portion of R. Wayne Baiey-Caswe Game Land that is ocated north of U.S. 158 and east of N.C. 119, and any other posted pubic fishing area. Use gasoine motors on Lake Rim in Cumberand County, and on Newbod and Etheridge ponds in Edgecombe County. Protect Your Waters Don t Move That Fish! Iega fish introductions can have ong-asting, negative impacts, such as atering the existing aquatic community through predation or competition; introducing diseases, parasites and unwanted fish species; and degrading water quaity and habitat. Once estabished, stocked fishes are neary impossibe to eradicate. DO YOUR PART TO PROTECT NORTH CAROLINA S WATERS FROM THE DAMAGES OF ILLEGAL FISH INTRODUCTIONS: Don t reease ive bait fish or aquarium fish. Don t move ive fish or aquatic widife from one body of water to another. INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION /17 35

38 INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION PUBLIC ACCESS FOR FISHING ONLY Where access to inand fishing waters is provided through private property under an agreement with the andowner, the area is marked by sign indicating Pubic Access for Fishing Ony. Any icensed anger and accompanying youths may cross the private property signed as Pubic Access for Fishing Ony in order to access pubic waters for the purpose of fishing. Angers using these areas are prohibited from entering before 7 am or remaining on the property after 9 pm, buiding fires, ittering, swimming, aunching or retrieving boats, and camping whie on the private property uness otherwise posted. BOATING ACCESS AREA REGULATIONS It is unawfu to: Leave any vehice, traier, boat or other obstruction where it wi impede the use of the ramp by others. Park any vehices, traier or boat anywhere on the area when the parking zone is fuy occupied. This does not prohibit ega use of the ramp. Use the area for swimming, camping, operating concessions or for any use other than the aunching and recovery of boats and parking of vehices and boat traiers, except where faciities for a particuar use are provided. Operate any vesse within 50 yards of the ramp at a speed greater than No Wake speed. Possess a oaded firearm other than a handgun possessed pursuant to a vaid conceaed handgun permit on those boating access areas where conceaed carry is aowed by the andowner. Carrying any oaded firearm, incuding conceaed handguns, is not aowed on boating access areas at Baden Lakes State Forest Game Land, Buckhorn Butner-Fas of Neuse Game Land, Chatham Game Land, DuPont State Forest Game Land, Harris Game Land, Hyco Game Land, Jordan Game Land, Kerr Scott Game Land, Lee Game Land, Mayo Game Land, Pee Dee River Game Land north of U.S 74, Sutton Lake Game Land, Vance Game Land, the portion of R. Wayne Baiey-Caswe Game Land that is ocated north of U.S. 158 and east of N.C. 119, and any other posted boating access area. Operate a vehice on any boat access area in a manner so as to endanger ife or property. Deposit any debris or refuse anywhere on the grounds of the area. Fai to obey any instruction or signs reguating use of the access area. Conduct a fishing tournament weigh-in without first obtaining a etter of authorization from the Division of Engineering and Lands Management at ncwidife.org/boating or by caing This permit must be avaiabe for inspec tion by widife enforcement officers during the tournament. Park in a handicapped space without dispaying a handicapped pate or sign. HYDROELECTRIC STATION SAFETY ZONES A 100-foot safety zone extends both upstream and downstream of the foowing hydroeectric stations. Ony fishing and boating are authorized within the safety zone, subject to the foowing restrictions: A boaters within the safety zone are required to wear approved U.S. Coast Guard persona fotation devices. Any angers within the safety zone that enter the water are required to wear an approved U.S. Coast Guard persona fotation device. No vesse may anchor within this zone or tie off to any part of the hydroeectric station structure. Catawba River: Bridgewater Hydroeectric Station (Paddy Creek, Linvie and Catawba dams) Cowans Ford Hydroeectric Station Lookout Hydroeectric Station Mountain Isand Hydroeectric Station Oxford Hydroeectric Station Rhodhiss Hydroeectric Station Green River: Tuxedo Hydroeectric Station Yadkin River: Narrows Hydroeectric Station High Rock Hydroeectric Station OTHER FISHING INFORMATION For fishing information reating to and administered by other agencies, contact the appropriate agency: Bue Ridge Parkway (see page 28), 199 Hemphi Knob Road, Ashevie, NC Teephone: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee Fish and Game Management, P.O. Box 302, Cherokee, NC Teephone: Great Smoky Mountains Nationa Park, 107 Park Headquarters Rd., Gatinburg, TN Teephone: U.S. Forest Service Widerness Areas, Nationa Forests in North Caroina, 160 Ziicoa St., Ashevie, NC Teephone: Division of Marine Fisheries, P.O. Box 769, Morehead City, NC Teephone: U.S. Fish and Widife Service Nationa Widife Refuges (See pages for contact information) /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

39 N NORTH CAROLINA ANGLER RECOGNITION PROGRAM Any anger who catches a fish in North Caroina meeting specific size requirements can appy to have the catch recognized as a trophy fish through the North Caroina Anger Recognition Program, or NCARP. This program provides recognition to a angers who catch trophy-size fish that are not arge enough to quaify as state record fish. Youth age 15 and younger may appy for a Youth NCARP certificate. Youth NCARP certificates are avaiabe for any fish isted beow and do not have to meet any minimum ength and weight requirements. Bass Bodie (hybrid) Bass Largemouth Bass Smamouth Bass Spotted Bass Striped Bass White Bass Carp-Common Bue Buhead (any species) Channe Fathead White Crappie (back or white) Freshwater Drum Kokanee Samon Longnose Gar Mountain Trout Brook Brown Rainbow NCARP Appication Form 8 bs. 8 bs. 3 bs. 2 bs. 10 bs. 2 bs. 10 bs. 20 bs. 30 bs. 2 bs. 10 bs. 30 bs. 4 bs. 2 bs. 12 bs. 2 bs. 10 bs. 2 bs. 2 bs., 8 oz. 2 bs., 8 oz Muskeunge Perch White Perch Yeow Perch Pickere Chain Pickere Shad American Hickory Buegi Fier Green Pumpkinseed Redbreast (Robin) Redear (Shecracker) Roanoke Bass Rock Bass Warmouth Waeye 20 bs. 1 b. 1 b. 4 bs. 10 oz. 3 bs. 2 bs. 1 b. 6 oz. 1 b. 14 oz. 1 b. 1 b. 1 b. 1 b. 1 b. 5 bs Fish shoud be measured to the ing rue, measure from the tip of the snout to the end of the tai with mouth cosed and tai obes pressed together. INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Fu Name Date of Birth Street Address First Midde Last Month Day Year Phone number ( ) E-mai (optiona) WRC # (if avaiabe) City State Zip Code Kind of Fish Date Caught Weight bs. oz. OR Length in. Body Name of of water where body caught where caught County Type of Water Pond Reservoir/Lake River/Stream Sound/Bay Bait Natura Yes No Check if anger is 15 years or younger Encose a check or money order for $5 payabe to NCWRC-NCARP and mai to: N.C. Widife Resources Commission, Inand Fisheries Division 1721 Mai Service Center, Raeigh, N.C /17 37

40 INLAND FISHING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION APPLYING FOR A FRESHWATER FISHING RECORD The Widife Resources Commission maintains records for popuar freshwater sport fishes caught by rod and ree or cane poe in state waters. State record fish must be weighed on scaes certified by the N.C. Department of Agricuture and verified by a Widife Resources Commission fisheries bioogist (or bioogist designated by the Com mission). For an appication form and other requirements, visit ncwidife.org/fishingrecords, or ca the Inand Fisheries Division at NORTH CAROLINA FRESHWATER FISHING RECORDS Weight Species Lbs/Oz Location Date Anger s Name Lure or Bait BASS Bodie (striped bass hybrid) 17/7 Lake Chatuge 3/15/96 Michae R. Hogsed Rebe jointed pug Roanoke 2/11 Fishing Creek, Nash Co. 4/27/94 Richard Eijah Evans Spinner bait Largemouth 15/14 Pond, Union Co. 3/29/91 Wiiam H.Wofford Crankbait Rock (Redeye) 1/14 Deep River 4/29/98 Robert W. Lytton Crappie jig Smamouth 10/2 Hiwassee Reservoir 6/1/51 Archie Lamkin Unknown Spotted 6/5 Lake Norman 12/26/03 Eric M. Weir Zoom Finesse Worm Striped 66/0 Hiwassee Reservoir 3/31/12 Tyer Shieds Zoom Trick Worm White 5/14 Kerr Reservoir 3/15/86 Jim King Bucktai CATFISH Bue 117/8 Lake Gaston 6/11/16 Landon Evans Cut bait, shad Fathead 78/0 Cape Fear River 9/17/05 Brian Newberger Ee White 13/0 Lake James 5/21/90 Jerry Wayne Bentey Nightcrawer Channe 23/4 City Lake, Rocky Mount 9/1/70 E. J. Bowden Shrimp Brown buhead 4/0 Greenfied Lake, 3/14/16 Mitche McConne Cut bait New Hanover Co. PERCH White 2/15 Fas of the Neuse Reservoir 12/16/01 Bob G. Wiiams Jr. Strata Spoon Yeow 2/9 Indiantown Creek 2/8/90 Eveyn G. Ethridge Minnow PICKEREL Chain 8/0 Gaston Reservoir 2/13/68 John H. Leonard Minnow Redfin 2/4 Gaberry Swamp 6/23/97 Edward C. Davis Minnow SHAD American 7/15 Tar River 4/10/74 R.S. Proctor Shad dart Hickory 4/1 Pitchkette Creek 2/22/04 Trey Maroues Spoon SUNFISH Redear (Shecracker) 4/15 Pond, Edgecombe Co. 5/19/08 Travis Jackson Worm Buegi 4/5 Henderson County 7/27/67 Danny Case Catawba worm Fier 1/5 Pond 3/17/90 Dougas N. McCa Cricket Green 1/15 Pond, Ashe Co. 7/12/14 Victoria Navaroi Worm Redbreast 1/12 Big Swamp, Baden Co. 5/29/83 Ronad Staney Beete Spin Warmouth 1/13 McLeods Pond, Richmond Co. 5/7/76 Emma Sears Minnow Pumpkinseed 1/6 Trent River 5/21/03 John Koonce Ee TROUT Brook 7/7 Raven Fork River 5/15/80 G.L. Marsha, Jr. Rooster Tai Brown 24/10 Nantahaa River 4/17/98 Robert Lee Dyer Rapaa Rainbow 20/3 Horsepasture River 1/28/06 Leah Johnson Rapaa OTHER Bowfin 17/15 Back River 6/21/97 Gregory A. Demery Sr. Cut bait, sunfish Carp 48/0 Pond, Meckenburg Co. 3/11/86 Wiiam Houston Jr. Unknown Crappie, back 4/15 Asheboro City Lake #4 4/27/80 Dean Dixon Minnow Crappie, white 3/15 Private ake, Wake County 4/1/13 Joey Boretti Storm WidEye Swim Shad Freshwater drum 23/8 Kerr Reservoir 3/20/13 Jonathan Wikerson Pastic fuke Grass carp 68/12 Summerins Pond, Leand 6/8/98 David W. Stowe Rebe Pop R Longnose gar 25/0 Intracoasta Waterway 1/30/09 Key Wiiams Tube minnow near Coinjock Kokanee samon 4/1 Nantahaa Lake 6/11/14 Jeffery Todd Smith Dodgers and fashers Muskeunge 41/8 Lake Adger 1/23/01 Richard W. Dodd Big Mack Muskeunge, tiger* 33/8 Lake James 4/3/88 Gary Dean Nanney Buzzbait Pike, northern* 11/13 Lake James 8/26/78 Keith Giiam Storm Wigge Wart Sauger 5/15 Lake Norman 7/25/71 David Shook Top water Rapaa Smamouth buffao 88/0 Lake Wyie 11/14/93 Tony Crawford Pack bait Waeye 13/8 Lake Chatuge (Shooting Cr.) 8/16/86 Lamar L. Cofer Od Faithfu spoon *These fishes are no onger present in North Caroina waters /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

41 NONGAME REGULATIONS AND INFORMATION Any anima not cassified as a game fish, game anima, fur bearer or a game bird is considered to be nongame. There are, however, reguations that appy to the taking and coection of these widife resources. For animas not specified esewhere in this Digest, the foowing guideines appy: Nongame Fish, Crustaceans and Mousks See pages for infor mation on coecting nongame fish, crustaceans and mo - usks for persona use, sae and bait. A Scientific Fish Coection License is needed to take or coect any aquatic anima for scientific purposes. In addition, a specia permit is required when the anima is a fresh water musse or any endangered, threatened or specia concern species. Mammas A Widife Coection License is needed to take or coect any nongame mamma. If the anima is endangered, threatened or of specia concern, an Endangered Species permit is required. Birds Most birds in North Caroina are defined as migratory and thus are protected by federa aws. Ca the U.S. Fish and Wid ife Service for more information at The excep tions are the Engish sparrow, pigeon, staring, mute swan, and Eurasian coared dove. Repties An annua Widife Coection License is needed to take or coect 5 or more izards or snakes. Coection of 5 or more turtes of the famiy Emydidae or Trionychidae (basking and box turtes) is prohibited. Limits on snapping/mud/musk turtes are 10 per day, and 100 per year. If the anima is endan gered, threatened or of specia concern, an Endangered Species permit is required. Amphibians An annua Widife Coection License is needed to take or coect 25 or more frogs, toads, mudpuppies or saamanders ( spring izards ). If the anima is endangered, threatened or of specia concern, an Endangered Species permit is required. Coection Licenses Widife Coection License and Scientific Fish Coection License appications are avaiabe onine at ncwidife.org/speciespermits, or for more information about appying, ca The ist of endangered, threatened and specia concern species in North Caroina is onine at ncwidife.org/conserving More information about nongame widife or hoding animas in captivity is avaiabe onine at ncwidife.org/icensing or by caing It is not necessary to obtain a Coection License before defend - ing yoursef or another from a widife threat. HELP KEEP North CaroinaWid! NONGAME REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Hunters and angers were the origina conservationists, heping to restore many game animas, such as turkeys, white-taied deer and striped bass. Sustaining a widife popuations requires funding to understand the ecoogy of species and how to conserve them in their natura habitats. Hep us to conserve the great diversity of birds, mammas, repties, amphibians, mousks, crustaceans and fish that are essentia components of North Caroina s widife heritage. You can hep by donated to the Y Nongame and Endangered Widife Fund. Your contributions wi a t be used to assess popuation status, d identify threats, and deveop conser - h vation programs to ensure a heathy f future for a North Caroina widife t and their habitats. Donations are tax deductibe and easy to make: Visit ncwidife.org/give to donate onine or print a mai-in form. Ca Contribute a portion of your state income tax refund through the N.C. Tax Check-off for Nongame and Endangered Widife. Order a Widife Conservation icense pate for your vehice, traier or camper by visiting ncwidife.org/give. HELP CONSERVE NORTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE AND NATURAL PLACES FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO ENJOY. 2016/17 39

42 TRAPPING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Trapping Reguations and Information During the trapping seasons isted beow, it is ega in North Caroina to trap armadio, beaver, coyote, groundhog, mink, muskrat, nutria, opossum, otter, raccoon, skunk, wease and bobcat.gray and red foxes may ony be trapped where provided by state or oca aw. For more information about fox trapping seasons, visit the trapping page at ncwidife.org and cick on Fox Season Trapping and Hunting Laws. Coyotes may be trapped during the reguar trapping season and during any fox-trapping season, estabished by statute or by oca aw, using methods described in statute, even when those seasons open prior to and extend after the reguar trapping seasons. Statewide Trapping Restrictions It is unawfu to: Se or otherwise transfer ownership of the carcass or pet of a fox*, bobcat or otter without first tagging it with the appropriate tag avaiabe from the Widife Resources Commission. The fee is $2.20 for each bobcat or otter tag and $2.25 for fox*. You may purchase these tags by tee phone, , using a VISA or MasterCard credit card, or you can mai your request aong with the fee to: NCWRC, Bobcat/Otter/Fox Tags, 1707 Mai Service Center, Raeigh, NC Incude your name, address, date of birth and WRC number. NOTE: A fox*, bobcat and otter fur must be tagged within 30 days of the cose of the appicabe season. Once the season coses, the Commission wi ship tags for another 23 days ony. *except Beaufort, Chowan, Davidson, Hyde, Johnston, Rockingham and Stokes counties and Winston-Saem where oca aws do not require fox tagging. Open or damage a beaver odge without a permit from the Widife Resources Commission. Se, keep or transfer ownership of any ive animas, except foxes or coyotes and box-trapped rabbits. Foxes and coyotes may be sod ive ony to icensed fox preserves and ony up to 10 days after the trapping season. Take red and gray fox except where provided by state or oca aw. For more information about fox trapping seasons, visit the trapping page at ncwidife.org/trapping/seasonslimits.aspx and cick on the fox tab. Take wid animas by trapping upon the and of another without having in possession written permission issued and dated within the previous year by the andowner or his agent. This restriction does not appy to pubic ands on which trapping is not specificay prohibited incuding tideands, marshands, and any other untited and. Remove or disturb any awfuy set trap or remove any fur bear - ing anima from a trap without permission of the trap owner. Statewide Trap-type Restrictions A traps must have a weather-resistant permanent tag attached egiby with the trapper s name and address. Unawfu to set or use a trap so that animas or birds wi be suspended when caught. Unawfu to set or use a hook of any sort or type to take wid animas or wid birds. Lega Trap Types Box/cage traps and coony traps Conibear -type traps Foothod/stee-jaw traps (incudes encosed foothod traps) Snares (for beaver ony) Conibear type Traps Must be smooth-edged and without teeth or spikes. Jaw Spread: - To measure the width and height of a Conibear -type trap, measure from inside jaw to inside jaw (Figure 1). - On dry and, cannot have a jaw spread greater than 7 ½ inches. - If totay covered by water, it can have an inside jaw spread (width or height) greater than 7 ½ inches and no arger than 26 inches in width and 12 inches in height. - In areas of tida waters, the mean high water is considered covering water. - In reservoir areas, covering water is the ow water eve prevaiing during the preceding 24 hours. - Trap can be checked every 72 hours if competey submerged. In addition, if trapping for beaver, Conibear -type traps can be set one-haf covered by water, but must be checked daiy. Figure 1. To measure the width and height of a Conibear -type trap, measure from inside jaw to inside jaw. Foothod/Stee-jaw Traps: Must be smooth edged and without teeth or spikes. Jaw Spread: - To measure jaw spread of a foot-hod trap, measure from inside jaw to inside jaw (Figure 2). - Cannot have a jaw spread greater than 7 ½ inches. - If the jaw spread is between 5 ½ and 7 ½ inches, the jaws must be offset by 3 /16th of an inch. - The jaws do not have to be offset if the trap is set in water with a quick-drown type set. Chain ength: Figure 2. To measure jaw spread of a foothod/eghod trap, measure from inside jaw to inside jaw. - Trap chain cannot be onger than 8 inches from anchor point to the base of the trap uness fitted with a shock-absorbing device with at east 40 bs. and not more than 75 bs. of pu. - Trap chain can be measured from anchor point (soid ground) to the base of the trap. Snares Can be used to trap ony beaver, except where aowed by oca aw. Cannot be used to trap any other widife, except where aowed by oca aw. You shoud aso read the Game Lands and Loca aws sections of this digest for trapping restrictions on certain game ands and in certain counties /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

43 Attendance Every trap must be visited daiy and any anima caught therein removed, except for competey submerged Conibear -type traps, which must be visited at east once every 72 hours and any anima caught therein removed. UNLAWFUL HARASSMENT OF PERSONS TAKING WILDLIFE RESOURCES In North Caroina, it is unawfu for a person to interfere intention - ay with the awfu taking of widife resources or to drive, harass, or intentionay disturb any widife resources for the purpose of dis rupting the awfu taking of widife resources on pubic or private property. NOTE: This aw does not appy to activity by a person on and he or she owns or eases or to a person who incidentay interferes with the taking of widife resources whie using the and for other awfu activity such as agricuture, mining or recreation. Vioation of this subsection is a misdemeanor punishabe for a first conviction by a fine not to exceed $1,000, by imprison - ment not to exceed 30 days, or by both and punishabe for a second or subsequent conviction by a fine eft to the discretion of the court (N.C. Genera Statute ). What Shoud I Do? If you experience unawfu harassment, immediatey notify your nearest widife enforcement officer, county sheriff s office or oca poice department. Advise the authorities of this aw and that you wish to hunt peacefuy. What Not to Do Do not provoke a fight, threaten reprisas or use profanity. Remember that some anti-hunting activists seek confrontation and may be accompanied by the news media. TRAPPING SEASONS Season Appicabe Area Dec. 1 Feb. 28 In and east of Hertford, Bertie, Martin, Pitt, Greene, Lenoir, Dupin, Pender and New Hanover counties. Nov. 1 Feb. 28 In a other counties. NOTE: In addition to the reguar trapping seasons isted above, coyotes may be taken in counties, areas and times where fox-trapping is aowed by statute. Nov. 1 Mar. 31 Statewide for beaver ony. NOTE: Landowners whose property is or has been damaged or destroyed by beaver may take beaver on their property anytime by any awfu method without obtaining a permit from the Widife Resources Commission. The andowner may obtain assistance from other persons in taking the depredating beaver by giving those persons permission to take beaver on the andowner s property. Jan. 7 Jan. 28 Fox trapping is aowed in Cay, Graham, Henderson, Macon and Tyrre counties with a daiy bag imit of two and a season bag imit of 10. Trappers must have fox tags prior to taking foxes, and the sae of ive foxes under this season is prohibited. There is no cosed season and no bag imit for trapping nutria east of I-77. Fera swine There is no cosed season and no bag imits for trapping fera swine. A hunting or trapping icense is required, except for those persons who are icense-exempt (see page 4). A fera swine trapping permit is aso required, even for those persons who are icense-exempt. This free permit is avaiabe at ncwidife.org/feraswine. Ony box and corra traps are ega for trapping fera swine and the permit number must be dispayed on a traps. Traps must be constructed in a manner such that a non-target anima (such as a bear) can easiy be reeased or can escape without harm. A fera swine must be euthanized whie in the trap and may not be removed aive from any trap. The permit does not authorize access to any property. Landowner permission is sti required. Fera swine trapping on game ands is aowed ony with permission of the Commission. Ca to inquire about trapping fera swine on game ands. TRAPPING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION TRAPPING SEASONS* Nov. 1 Feb. 28 * These dates appy to a species isted on page 40, except foxes and beaver. Fox trapping season dates are in a separate pubication, see page 40. Beaver trapping season dates are Nov. 1 to March 31. There is no cosed season for trapping nutria east of I-77. Dec. 1 Feb /17 41

44 HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION MANNER OF TAKING Definition of Take To take is defined as a operations during, immediatey preparatory and immediatey subsequent to an attempt, whether successfu or not, to capture, ki, pursue, hunt or otherwise harm or reduce to possession any fisheries resource or widife resource. Season Dates For most species, hunting seasons are set to open on the same day of the week every year and at the same genera time. For exampe, rabbit season opens every year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving and ends on the ast day of February. Changes in season dates that are a resut of newy adopted reguations wi appear in red ink. However, most seasona dates that are different from ast year are the resut of the annua shift of days in each year s caendar. Genera Restrictions Lawfu seasons and bag imits for each species appy beginning with the first day of the isted season and continuing through the ast day of the isted season, incuding Sundays for private ands, with Sunday hunting restrictions isted in the next paragraph. It unawfu to hunt on Sundays on pubic ands, except that miitary instaations under the excusive jurisdiction of the federa government may aow hunting on Sundays. On Sundays, on private ands, the foowing appy: Hunting with firearms between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. is prohibited except on controed hunting preserves; Hunting migratory birds is prohibited; The use of firearms to take deer that are run or chased by dogs is prohibited; Hunting with a firearm within 500 yards of a pace of worship or any accessory structure thereof, or within 500 yards of a residence not owned by the andowner, is prohibited; and Hunting in Wake and Meckenburg counties with a firearm is prohibited. Archery equipment may be used to hunt on private ands on Sunday without the restrictions appied to hunting with firearms. Shooting hours. Game birds and animas may be taken ony between 30 minutes before sunrise and 30 minutes after sunset with rife, pisto, shotgun, bow and arrow, dogs or by means of fa conry with the foowing exceptions: raccoons, fera swine and opossums may be taken at night. Coyotes may be taken at night in a counties except Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Tyrre and Washington. Ca for shooting hours for migratory birds. Retrieva If a hunter kis or wounds a big game anima during ega shoot - ing hours the hunter may use a portabe ight source and a singe dog on a eash to assist the hunter in retrieving the dead or wound - ed big game anima and may dispatch a wounded big game anima using a.22-caiber rimfire pisto, archery equipment, or a hand gun otherwise ega for that hunting season. If necessary, the hunter may aso retrieve wounded big game in this manner from 30 min - utes after sunset to 11:00 p.m. The hunter may not use a motor - ized vehice when searching for the wounded anima. Taking It is unawfu to use any of the foowing in taking wid birds or animas: - artificia ights (incuding aser sights), except for big game retrieva and taking fera swine and coyotes at night - eectronic or recorded cas (except eectronic cas are per mitted for crow, coyote and fera swine hunting). Other exceptions for migratory game birds may be found under individua season descriptions. - fire - motor vehices at no time may any wid animas or birds be taken with the aid of a motor vehice whie the passenger area is occupied or whie the vehice engine is running - vesses: under sai, under power, or with the engine running, or whie sti in the motion from such propusion, except cripped waterfow (see page 63); or - airpanes It is unawfu to take wid birds with the use or aid of bait, which incudes any sat, sat ick, grain, fruit, honey, sugar-based materia or substance, anima parts or anima products. Reguations for taking bear with unprocessed foods are on page 47. No wid turkey may be taken from an area in which bait has been paced unti the expiration of 10 days after the bait has been consumed or otherwise removed. It is unawfu to take deer that are swimming or in water above the knees of the deer. Migratory game birds may be taken ony during the hours and in the manner permitted by federa reguations. It is unawfu to shoot at or into a squirre s nest. Individuas engaged in box trapping rabbits must have an appropriate hunting icense to take or transport ive rabbits. It is unawfu to accept the gift of widife awfuy taken uness you possess in writing the donor s name, address and hunting icense number. It is unawfu to dump anima remains anywhere without permission. Archery Archery hunting is imited to ongbows and recurved bows having a minimum pu of 40 pounds, com pound bows with a minimum pu of 35 pounds and crossbows with a minimum draw weight of 100 pounds. Ony arrows with a fixed minimum broadhead width of 7 /8 inch or a mech an icay opening broad head with a minimum width of 7 /8 inch in the open position may be used for taking bear, deer or wid turkey. Bunt-type arrowheads may be used in taking sma animas and birds, incuding but not imited to, rabbits, squirres, quai, grouse, pheasants. Poisonous, drugged, barbed or exposive arrowheads may not be used for taking any game. Bots must use broadheads as described for arrows Shotguns Shotguns must be no arger than 10-gauge. When hunting migratory game birds, shotguns must be pugged so as to imit their maximum capacity to three shes. Pistos During the open hunting season for rabbits, squirres, opossums, raccoons, furbearing animas and ega nongame animas and birds, these species may be taken with a pisto. There are no restrictions on caiber and barre ength. A hunter or trapper awfuy taking widife by another method may use a pisto to dispatch the anima or bird taken, except as noted beow. Deer and bear may be taken with a handgun during the estabished gun hunting season. There are no restrictions on barre ength or caiber. It is unawfu to hunt or take wid turkeys with pistos. Rifes Fuy automatic rifes are unawfu. A other rifes are ega except: - Rifes are prohibited by federa aw in hunting migratory game birds. - Loca aws prohibit or restrict rifes in some counties. See the oca aws section on page It is unawfu to hunt or take wid turkeys with rifes. Backpowder During the backpowder deer season, the ony awfu firearms are backpowder shotguns, rifes and handguns. The Commission defines a backpowder firearm as any firearm that cannot use fixed ammunition /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

45 Hunting with Dogs It is unawfu to hunt, run or chase deer at any time in these counties and a counties west of the ine they form: Rockingham, Guiford, Randoph, Montgomery, Stany and Union counties. This does not appy to the use of a singe dog on a eash to assist the hunter in retrieving a dead or wounded deer. It is unawfu to hunt, run or chase deer at any time in these counties and parts of counties: - Aamance - Durham - Lee - Chatham - Johnston - Wayne - Anson west of N.C Chowan south of U.S. Highway 17 and U.S. Highway 17 Business and east of a ine drawn from the intersection of the western city imits of the Town of Edenton and U.S. Highway 17 Business and extending due south to the Abemare Sound - Orange south of I-85 - Richmond west of Litte River and to that portion east of Litte River and bounded by N.C. 73 to the north, by Hough Road to the east, and by Grassy Isand Road to the south. - Wake south of N.C. 98 This does not appy to the use of a singe dog on a eash to assist the hunter in retrieving a wounded deer. In a other counties hunting deer with dogs is aowed, but oca aw may impose further restrictions. See Loca Laws section. In counties where hunting deer with dogs is aowed, game and rues may prohibit this activity. See Game Lands section. It is unawfu to hunt deer with dogs during Archery and Backpowder seasons, except a hunter may use a singe dog on a eash to assist the hunter in retrieving a dead or wounded deer. It is unawfu to hunt bears with dogs in the foowing counties: Aamance south of Interstate 85, Anson west of N.C. Hwy 742, Cabarrus, Chatham, Davie, Davidson, Forsyth, Gaston, Guiford, Lee, Lincon, Meckenburg, Montgomery, Orange south of Interstate 85, Pamico (per oca aw) Randoph, Rockingham, Rowan, Stany, Union, and Wake south of N.C. Hwy 98. Except for deer and bear as described above, hunting game animas and game birds (except for wid turkey) with dogs is aowed in a counties of the state, subject to the restrictions appied by oca aws and game and rues. See Loca Laws and Game Lands sections. It is unawfu to intentionay remove or destroy an eectronic coar or other eectronic device paced on a dog by its owner to maintain contro of the dog. Training Dogs It is unawfu to run or chase deer during cosed season, except when under the contro of the owner. This appies ony to counties where hunting deer with dogs is aowed. In counties or parts thereof and game ands where hunting deer with dogs is prohibited, running or chasing deer is prohibited at a times. See map on page 53. This does not appy to the use of a singe dog on a eash to assist the hunter in retrieving a wounded deer. Except as aowed in authorized fied trias and training using domesticay raised waterfow or game birds, it is unawfu to possess axes, saws or tree-cimbing equipment whie training or running dogs during cosed season. Individuas engaged in training dogs and individuas who are active participants in fied trias must have an appropriate hunting icense. When training dogs during the cosed season, hunters may use domesticay raised waterfow or game birds provided that they use shot shes with shot of number 4 size or smaer and the shot is nontoxic when training with waterfow. A birds must be banded on one eg with the propagator s icense number. Further restrictions appy to training dogs on game ands during the cosed season. See Game Lands section. Fied Trias Commission-sanctioned fied trias may aow hunters to conduct fied trias with dogs in areas and at times authorized with the use of approved weapons and ammunition and may authorize the use of certain domesticay raised birds. HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION LANDOWNER PROTECTION ACT Sportsmen need written permission, dated within the past 12 months, signed by the and owner or essee, to hunt, fish, or trap on ands posted with signs no more than 200 yards apart or purpe paint 100 yards apart. The property shoud aso be posted at entrances and corners. You must carry written permission on your person. If a hunting cub has eased the and, hunters must have a copy of their hunting cub membership and a copy of the andowner permission given to that cub. Widife officers wi enforce the Landowner Protection Act. The Landowner Protection Act does not change genera trespass aws nor have any effect on ands which are not posted. It does not repea any oca acts currenty in effect that require written permission to hunt, fish or trap. North Caroina aw encourages owners of and to make property avaiabe for recreationa use. The aw states that a andowner who aows someone, without charge, onto their and for recreationa purposes owes them the same duty of care they woud owe a trespasser. BOTTOM OF LINE SHOULD BE BETWEEN 3' AND 5' FROM THE BASE OF THE TREE OR POST 3' to 5' PURPLE LINE NEEDS TO BE AT LEAST 8" LONG 2016/17 43

46 HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Active participants in fied trias are peope who hande dogs or firearms. For Commission-sanctioned fied trias, active participants may use a hunting icense from their state of residence. For a other types of fied trias, active participants must have a N.C. hunting icense. For Commission-sanctioned fied trias, judges do not need to have a hunting icense. For a other types of fied trias, judges must have a N.C. hunting icense. Appications for authorization of a Commission-sanctioned fied tria must be submitted in writing to a widife enforcement officer at east 30 days prior to the schedued event. Appications for authorization of a Commission-sanctioned fied tria may be obtained onine at ncwidife.org/ Licensing Boats Deer may not be hunted from boats or other foating devices in some counties. Aso see restrictions for taking with vesses on page 42. Hunter or Baze Orange Any person hunting bear, fera swine, rabbit, squirre, grouse, pheasant and quai with the use of fire - arms must wear a cap or hat made of hunter-orange materia or an outer garment of hunter orange visibe from a sides. Any one hunting deer during a deer firearms season, regard ess of weapon, must wear hunter orange visibe from a sides. This incudes archery hunters that hunt on Sunday during the deer firearms season and anyone hunting on Youth Deer Hunting Day. This require ment does not appy to a andhoder, his or her spouse and chidren if they are hunting on the andhoder s property. Artificia Lights In addition to the prohibition of taking widife with the use of artificia ight, except for big game retrieva, many counties have oca reguations that prohibit shining ights on deer or searching for deer with ights 30 minutes after sunset or after 11 p.m. A coorcoded map showing county shining aws is on page 54. The fashing or dispay of any artificia ight between 30 minutes after sunset and 30 minutes before sunrise in any area that is fre - quented or inhabited by wid deer by any person who has acces - sibe to him or her a firearm, crossbow or other bow and arrow con - stitutes prima facie evidence of taking deer with the aid of an arti ficia ight. Raccoon and opossum may be taken at night, with dogs during open seasons, with the use of artificia ights commony used to aid in taking raccoon and opossum. Where fera swine and coyotes may be hunted at night, artificia ight may be used. Road Hunting Loca aws prohibit or restrict hunting or shooting from pubic roads or possession of a oaded firearm on road right-of-ways in some counties. OTHER RESTRICTIONS Loca Laws There are many oca aws affecting hunting and trap - ping in North Caroina. An abstract of oca aws that are more restrictive than genera reguations is incuded in this Digest. See the Loca Laws section. Exotic Species It is unawfu to pace exotic species of wid animas or wid birds not indigenous to that area or fera swine in an area for the purpose of stocking the area for hunting or trapping. (There are cer tain imited exceptions for icensed-controed hunting preserves.) Transfer of Widife An individua may accept the gift of widife awfuy taken within North Caroina if taking possession does not cause the individua to exceed the appicabe possession imit. The individua must note and preserve in writing the name and address of the donor and under what icense require ments the widife was taken. Trespass The estabishment of open seasons does not obigate the private andowner to aow hunting on his property, nor does it eiminate the ethica requirement for obtaining permission from the andowner before hunting. In some counties, hunters are required to obtain permission to hunt on private property. State Fish Hatcheries It is unawfu to possess a oaded fire arm within a posted restricted zone on any state-owned fish hatch ery or to discharge a firearm into or across such a restricted zone. Sae of Widife In genera, whoe animas or their parts may not be bought or sod in North Caroina. There are some exceptions. More information may be found at ncwidife.org/saeofwidife. Cervid Carcass Parts Ony the foowing deer, ek or moose carcass parts harvested in states or provinces with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) wi be aowed in North Caroina: - meat that is cut and wrapped - quarters or other portions of meat with no part of the spina coumn or head attached - meat that has been boned out - caped hides - ceaned sku pates - anters - ceaned teeth - finished taxidermy products These parts or their containers must be abeed with the hunter s name and address; state or province of origin; date the anima was kied; the hunter s hunting icense number; and the destination of the parts or containers. A current map of CWD-infected states and provinces is avaiabe at: Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has not been found in North Caroina. For more information about deer diseases, visit: AftertheHunt/DeerDiseases.aspx HUNTING ON FEDERAL LANDS State reguations and icense requirements appy on federa ands. Some of the areas isted beow may be cosed to hunting. For specific information, contact the appropriate federa entity: Aigator River Nationa Widife Refuge P.O. Box 1969, Manteo, NC Phone Camp Lejeune Conservation Law Enforcement Office, Assistant Chief of Staff Instaation Security and Safety Dept, Buiding PT-3, Camp Lejeune, NC Phone Cape Hatteras Nationa Seashore 1401 Nationa Park Drive, Manteo, NC Phone Cape Lookout Nationa Seashore 131 Chares St., Harkers Isand, NC Phone Great Disma Swamp Nationa Widife Refuge 3100 Desert Road, Suffok, VA Phone Fort Bragg Widife Hunting and Fishing Center, Fort Bragg, NC Phone Mackay Isand and Currituck Nationa Widife Refuges P.O. Box 39, Knotts Isand, NC Phone /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

47 ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ Deer Hunter ALERT ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ Anyone returning with a deer, ek or moose taken in Arkansas, Coorado, Iinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryand, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Okahoma, Pennsyvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming and Canada s Aberta and Saskatchewan provinces where Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been confirmed must foow North Caroina processing/packaging reg uations, which aow: n n n n n n n n meat that is cut and wrapped quarters or other portions of meat with no part of the spina coumn or head attached meat that has been boned out caped hides ceaned sku pates anters ceaned teeth finished taxidermy products HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Parts or containers hoding parts must be abeed with the hunter s name and compete address; state or province of origin; date the deer (or moose or ek) was kied; the hunter s hunting icense number; and the destination of the parts. Taxidermists shoud immediatey inform a widife off icer if a fu head or parts other than those isted are received from a CWD-verified state or province. ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ 2016/17 45

48 HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point Environmenta Affairs Dept. Natura Resources Manager, PSC Box 8003, Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, NC Phone Cedar Isand, Mattamuskeet and Swan Quarter Nationa Widife Refuges 85 Mattamuskeet Rd., Swan Quarter, NC Phone Pea Isand Nationa Widife Refuge P.O. Box 1969, Manteo, NC Phone Pee Dee Nationa Widife Refuge 5770 US Hwy 52 North, Wadesboro, NC Phone Pocosin Lakes Nationa Widife Refuge P.O. Box 329, Coumbia, NC Phone Roanoke River Nationa Widife Refuge P.O. Box 430, Windsor, NC Phone U.S. Forest Service 160 Ziicoa St., Suite A, Ashevie, NC Phone Bue Ridge Parkway Permits and information about specia parkway reguations govern ing access to adjoining game ands may be obtained from: The Super - intendent, Bue Ridge Parkway, Nationa Park Service, 199 Hemphi Knob Rd., Ashevie, NC Phone BIG GAME BEAR Nonresidents hunting bear must possess a bear hunting icense (See page 9). Restrictions It is unawfu to do any of the foowing: Take a cub (ess than 75 pounds) or a femae bear with cub(s). Hunt bear on a designated bear sanctuary. (See the information beow on bear sanctuaries.) Information on the use of dogs to hunt bears and the use of unprocessed foods is on page 47. BEAR HUNTING SEASONS Daiy imit 1; Season imit 1 WESTERN BEAR SEASON Oct. 17 Nov. 19 Dec. 12, 2016 Jan. 2, In and west of Surry, Wikes, Cadwe, Burke, Ceveand. Note: Further game and restrictions may appy. See the Game Lands section for specific game and rues. PIEDMONT BEAR SEASONS Nov. 12, 2016 Jan. 2, 2017 In the foowing counties: Aamance Granvie Person Anson Guiford Randoph Cabarrus Lee Rockingham Caswe Meckenburg Rowan Chatham Montgomery Stany Davidson Orange Union Durham Oct. 15, 2016 Jan. 2, 2017 In the foowing counties: Frankin Moore Vance Harnett Richmond Wake Johnston Scotand Warren Hoke Nov. 19, Jan. 2, 2017 In the foowing counties: Aexander Forsyth Lincon Catawba Gaston Stokes Davie Irede Yadkin EASTERN BEAR SEASONS Nov. 14, 2016 Jan. 2, 2017 In the foowing counties: Baden New Hanover Brunswick Onsow Carteret Pamico (use of dogs for hunting Coumbus bear is prohibited here.) Cumberand Pender Dupin Sampson Dec. 5 24, 2016 In the foowing counties: Robeson Nov , 2016 and Dec , 2016 In the foowing counties: Beaufort Haifax Pasquotank* Camden* Hyde Pitt Chowan* Jones Tyrre Craven Lenoir Washington Dare Martin Wayne Edgecombe Nash Wison Greene Northampton *Per oca aw, bear season opens Nov. 11 in these counties. Nov , 2016 and Dec , 2016 Bertie Gates Perquimans Currituck Hertford Bear Sanctuaries Bear may not be taken in those parts of counties incuded in the foowing sanctuaries: Sanctuary Appicabe County or Counties Bacheor Bay Bear Sanctuary Bertie, Martin and Washington Bombing Range Bear Sanctuary Dare (except by permit ony) Danie Boone Bear Sanctuary Avery, Burke and Cadwe (except by permit ony) Coumbus County Bear Sanctuary Coumbus Croatan Bear Sanctuary Carteret, Craven and Jones Fires Creek Bear Sanctuary Cay Fat Top Bear Sanctuary Mitche and Yancey Green Swamp Bear Sanctuary Brunswick Gu Rock Bear Sanctuary Hyde Harmon Den Bear Sanctuary Haywood Panthertown-Bonas Defeat Jackson Bear Sanctuary Mt. Mitche Bear Sanctuary McDowe and Yancey (except by permit ony) North River Bear Sanctuary Camden and Currituck Pisgah Bear Sanctuary Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson and Transyvania Pungo River Bear Sanctuary Hyde Rich Mountain Bear Sanctuary Madison Sherwood Bear Sanctuary Haywood Standing Indian Bear Sanctuary Macon Suggs Mi Pond Bear Sanctuary Baden Thurmond Chatham Bear Sanctuary Wikes Wayah Bear Sanctuary Macon The foowing additiona restrictions appy to bear sanctuaries: It is unawfu to take fera swine on bear sanctuaries except during the deer archery season, deer backpowder season, deer gun season and any sma game season using ony weapons and manner of take prescribed for that hunting season /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

49 Dogs may not be used to take fera swine. Dogs may not be used to pursue bear. It is unawfu to train dogs or aow dogs to run uneashed on bear sanctuaries in and west of Madison, Buncombe, Henderson and Pok counties from March 1 unti the Monday on or nearest Oct. 15. DEER YOUTH DEER HUNTING DAY September 24, 2016 On this day, youth under the age of 16 may use any ega weapon to hunt deer of either sex. See page 42 for description of ega weapons. Hunters age 16 and oder may ony use the weapon ega for the type of season open in their county on this day. A hunters must wear hunter orange on this day, even if the hunter is using archery equipment. EASTERN DEER SEASON Archery: Sept. 10 Sept. 30, 2016 Backpowder: Oct. 1 Oct. 14, 2016 Gun: Oct. 15, 2016 Jan. 2, 2017 CENTRAL DEER SEASON Archery: Sept. 10 Oct. 28, 2016 Backpowder: Oct. 29 Nov. 11, 2016 Gun: Nov. 12, 2016 Jan. 2, 2017 NORTHWESTERN DEER SEASON Archery: Sept. 10 Nov. 4, 2016 Backpowder: Nov. 5 Nov. 18, 2016 Gun: Nov. 19, 2016 Jan. 2, 2017 WESTERN DEER SEASON Archery: Sept. 10 Oct. 2 and Oct. 16 Nov. 20, 2016 Backpowder: Oct. 3 Oct. 15, 2016 Gun: Nov. 21 Dec. 10, 2016 (except in Ceveand, Rutherford and Pok counties where the gun season is extended to Jan. 2) (continued on page 56) Restrictions on Hunting Bear with Dogs and Using Unprocessed Foods DOGS. Hunting bears with dogs is prohibited in the foowing counties or parts of counties: Aamance south of Interstate 85, Anson west of N.C. Hwy 742, Cabarrus, Chatham, Davie, Davidson, Forsyth, Gaston, Guiford, Lee, Lincon, Meckenburg, Montgomery, Orange south of Interstate 85, Pamico (per oca aw), Randoph, Rockingham, Rowan, Stany, Union, and Wake south of N.C. Hwy 98. In a other counties, hunting bears with the use of dogs is ega during open bear seasons, but restrictions may appy on game ands. See Game Land Section for further information. HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION UNPROCESSED FOODS. Lega during the Monday on or nearest October 15 to the Saturday before Thanksgiving* in and west of Surry, Wikes, Cadwe, Burke and Ceveand counties. In a other counties, unprocessed foods may be used to aid in taking of bear during any open season for bear. * The prohibition against taking bears with the use and aid of bait does not appy to the reease of dogs in the vicinity of any food source that is not a processed food product. However, dogs may not be reeased in the vicinity of any commerciay avaiabe minera suppement whether paced for the purpose of attracting deer or otherwise. Oct Nov. 19 Any ega open season for back bear It is unawfu: to take a bear whie in the act of consuming unprocessed foods; to pace processed food products as bait in any area of the state with an estabished season for taking back bears. Processed food products are any food substance or favoring that has been modified by the addition of ingredients or by treatment to modify its chemica composition or form or to enhance its aroma or taste. This incudes: food products enhanced by sugar, honey, syrups, ois, sats, spices, peanut butter, grease, meat, bones, or bood; candies, pastries, gum, and sugar bocks; and extracts of such products; to use any bear bait attractant, incuding scented sprays, aerosos, scent bas, and scent powders; and to pace any sort of processed or unprocessed foods on game ands. 2016/17 47

50 /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED. Back Bear Sanctuaries Oct. 17 Nov. 19 & Dec. 12 Jan. 2 Nov. 19 Jan. 2 Nov. 12 Jan. 2 Oct. 15 Jan. 2 Nov. 12 Nov. 19 & Dec. 12 Dec. 24 Nov. 14 Nov. 19 & Dec. 12 Dec. 24 Nov. 14 Jan. 2 Dec Nov. 11 Nov. 19 & Dec. 12 Dec BEAR SEASON HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Bear Hunters: Become a Bear Cooperator and receive a free, baze orange hunting hat by submitting the premoars from your bear. Ca for more information.

51 WESTERN DEER SEASON Archery: Sept. 10 Oct. 2 Oct. 16 Nov. 20 Backpowder: Oct. 3 Oct. 15 (See page 55 for either-sex days during backpowder season) Gun: Nov. 21 Dec. 10** Gun Either-Sex Season* (Introductory Season) Dec. 10 Buncombe Haywood Henderson Madison Transyvania No Either-Sex Season Cherokee Cay Graham Jackson Macon Swain Gun Either-Sex Season* (Conservative Season) Dec. 5 Dec. 10 Avery Burke Cadwe McDowe Mitche Yancey Gun Either-Sex Season* (Moderate Season) Nov. 21 Nov. 26 Dec. 27 Jan. 2 Ceveand Pok Rutherford Gun Either-Sex Season* (Maximum Season) Nov. 21 Dec. 10 Buncombe: that part east of N.C. 191, south of the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers, west of U.S. 25 and north of N.C Henderson: that part east of N.C. 191 and north and west of N.C /17 49 *Note: Either-Sex Gun Seasons on game ands may vary. See Game Lands section for Either-Sex Gun Seasons on the game and you wi be hunting. **Note: The Gun Season in Ceveand, Pok and Rutherford counties ends Jan. 2, 2017, except for South Mountains Game Land (see Game Lands section). HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION

52 /17 NORTHWESTERN DEER SEASON Archery: Sept.10 Nov. 4 Backpowder: Nov. 5 Nov. 18 Gun: Nov. 19, 2016 Jan. 2, 2017 HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Does not incude that portion of Buffao Cove Game Land in Wikes Co. (see Game Lands section). Gun Either-Sex Season* (Maximum Season) Nov. 19, 2016 Jan. 2, 2017 Aexander Irede Aeghany Lincon Ashe Stokes Catawba Surry Davie Wikes Forsyth Yadkin Gaston Watauga *Note: Either-Sex Gun Seasons on game ands may vary. See Game Lands section for Either-Sex Gun Seasons on the game and you wi be hunting.

53 CENTRAL DEER SEASON Archery: Sept.10 Oct. 28 Backpowder: Oct. 29 Nov. 11 Gun: Nov. 12, 2016 Jan. 2, 2017 Gun Either-Sex Season* (Maximum Season) Nov. 12, 2016 Jan. 2, 2017 Aamance Davidson Meckenburg Rockingham Anson Durham Montgomery Rowan Caswe Granvie Orange Stany Cabarrus Guiford Person Union Chatham Lee Randoph 2016/17 51 *Note: Either-Sex Gun Seasons on game ands may vary. See Game Lands section for Either-Sex Gun Seasons on the game and you wi be hunting. HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION

54 /17 Gun Either-Sex Season* (Maximum Season) Oct. 15, 2016 Jan. 2, 2017 Beaufort Greene Pasquotank Bertie Haifax Pender Baden Harnett Perquimans Brunswick Hertford Pitt Camden Hoke Richmond Carteret Hyde Robeson Chowan Johnston Sampson Coumbus Jones Scotand Craven Lenoir Tyrre Cumberand Martin Vance Currituck Moore Wake Dare Nash Warren Dupin New Hanover Washington Edgecombe Northampton Wayne Frankin Onsow Wison Gates Pamico EASTERN DEER SEASON Archery: Sept. 10 Sept. 30 Backpowder: Oct. 1 Oct. 14 Gun: Oct. 15, 2016 Jan. 2, 2017 Does not incude Nichoson Creek, Rockfish Creek and Sandhis game ands. (See Game Lands section.) HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION *Note: Either-Sex Gun Seasons on game ands may vary. See Game Lands section for Either-Sex Gun Seasons on the game and you wi be hunting.

55 DEER HUNTING WITH USE OF DOGS Aowed* Prohibited by state and/or oca aw *Check Loca Laws and Game Lands sections for additiona restrictions that may appy. Note: See Manner of Taking: Hunting with Dogs section on pages for the aowed/prohibited boundaries within spit counties. HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION 2016/17 53

56 /17 SHINING LIGHTS IN DEER AREAS HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION No person sha, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 1/2 hour before sunrise, intentionay shine a ight upon a deer or intentionay sweep a ight in search of deer in these areas. No person sha, between the hours of 1 /2 hour after sunset and 1 /2 hour before sunrise, intentionay shine a ight upon a deer or intentionay sweep a ight in search of a deer in these areas. No oca ight aws as of Jan. 1, Unawfu to shine a ight intentionay upon a deer or to sweep a ight in search of a deer at any time.

57 NORTH CAROLINA GOOSE ZONES Resident Popuation Zone Incudes the counties or parts of counties shown in biue. Parts of counties are described beow: 2016/17 55 Bertie: that portion south and west of a ine formed by N.C. 45 at the Washington Co. ine to U.S. 17 in Midway. U.S.17 in Midway to U.S. 13 in Windsor. U.S. 13 in Windsor to the Hertford Co. ine Haifax: that portion west of N.C. 903 Montgomery: that portion east of N.C. 109 Richmond: a of the county except that portion that is south of N.C. 73 and west of U.S. 220 and north of U.S. 74 Southern James Bay Hunt Zone Incudes the counties or parts of counties shown in green. Parts of counties are described beow: Haifax: that portion east of N.C. 903 Montgomery: that portion west of N.C. 109 Richmond: that portion that is south of N.C. 73 and west of U.S. 220 and north of U.S. 74 Northeast Hunt Zone Incudes the counties or parts of counties shown in yeow. Parts of counties are described beow: Bertie: that portion north and east of a ine formed by N.C. 45 at the Washington Co. ine to U.S. 17 in Midway. U.S.17 in Midway to U.S. 13 in Windsor to the Hertford Co. ine HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION

58 HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION (continued from page 47) Seasons See the maps on the preceding pages for either-sex season dates for deer and exceptions to the season isted above. Seasons for deer with visibe anters and other weapons seasons on game ands foow the season for the county in which they are ocated except for Buffao Cove Game Land, Nichoson Creek Game Land, Rockfish Creek Game Land, Sandhis Game Land and South Moun tains Game Land. See the Game Lands section for additiona restrictions on these Game Lands seasons. Refer to the Game Lands section for Gun Either-Sex Deer Season dates on game ands. Genera Restrictions Any person hunting deer during a deer firearms season sha wear hunter orange visibe from a sides. This incudes hunting on Sundays during the backpowder or gun seasons, even though hunters may ony use (text edited for carification ony) with archery equipment on Sundays. This aso incudes anyone hunting on Youth Deer Hunting Day, regardess of age of the hunter or weapon used. Landhoders, their spouses and chidren hunting on and hed by the andhoder do not have to wear hunter orange. Deer with visibe anters may be taken during any open deer season. Anteress deer may ony be taken during either-sex deer seasons. See next coumn for information about eithersex seasons. Visibe anters are defined as bony structures that protrude through the skin. Knobs or buttons covered by skin or vevet are not considered visibe anters. It is unawfu to pace processed food products as bait in any area of the state with an estabished season for taking back bears. Processed food products or any food substance or favoring that has been modified by the addition of ingredients or by treatment to modify its chemica composition or form or to enhance its aroma or taste. This incudes: food products enhanced by sugar, honey, syrups, ois, sats, spices, peanut butter, grease, meat, bones, or bood; candies, pastries, gum, and sugar bocks; and extracts of such products. The pacement of commerciay avaiabe minera suppements specificay and excusivey marketed for attracting or feeding deer is aowed anywhere in the state, except on game ands. Weapons and Dogs Archery. During the archery season the foowing are ega weapons: bows and arrows and crossbows (both described on page 42). It is unawfu to use a dog whie hunting deer during this season, except to retrieve a wounded deer. See page 42 for detais. Backpowder. During the backpowder season the foowing are ega weapons: bows and arrows, crossbows (both described on page 42), and backpowder firearms as defined on page 42. It is unawfu to use a dog whie hunting deer during this season, except to retrieve a wounded deer. See page 42 for detais. Gun. During the gun season the foowing are ega weapons: bows and arrows, crossbows (both described on page 42), backpowder firearms, shotguns, rifes, and handguns. Hunters may use dogs to hunt deer during this season in counties indicated on the map on page 53, and to retrieve a wounded deer. See page 43 for detais. Bag Limits The big game hunting icense authorizes the hunter to harvest up to six deer. A six deer can be anteress for a areas of the state. The season imit for antered deer in the Eastern Deer Season is four. The season imit for antered deer in the Centra, Northwestern, and Western deer seasons is two. There is no daiy bag imit. The possession imit for antered deer is the same as the season imit. The possession imit for anteress deer harvested in areas with a maximum either-sex season, or in those areas participating in the Urban Archery Season, is equivaent to the number of anter ess deer the hunter is authorized to harvest on his big game hunting icense and any Bonus Anteress Harvest Report Cards he may have procured. The possession imit for anteress deer harvested in a other areas is equivaent to the number of anteress deer the hunter is authorized to harvest on his big game hunting icense. Bonus Anteress Harvest Report Cards aow for the harvest of two additiona anteress deer per card. These are NOT vaid for use on game ands. Unimited Bonus Anteress Harvest Report Cards are avaiabe to each hunter. Bonus Anteress Harvest Report Cards are vaid during archery, backpowder, and gun season in those areas with a maximum either-sex gun season. Bonus Anteress Harvest Report Cards are aso vaid in cities, towns and viages par ti cipating in the Urban Archery Season. Bonus Anteress Har vest Report Cards can be obtained at most widife service agents, or onine at ncwidife.org or by caing Anteress deer harvested under the Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) and tagged with harvest tags provided with the program are not incuded in norma statewide bag imits. Note: Anteress deer may be taken ony in those areas and during those times described esewhere in this pubication. Either-Sex Deer Seasons Youth Deer Hunting Day Deer of either sex may be taken by hunters under the age of 16 on this day. Archery Deer Season Deer of either sex may be taken during archery deer season in a areas (incudes game ands). Backpowder Firearm Deer Season Deer of either sex may be taken during the ast day of the back - powder firearm deer season in and west of Henderson, Buncombe, Yancey, Mitche and Avery counties (incudes game ands). Deer of either sex may be taken anytime during the backpowder firearm deer season in and east of Pok, Rutherford, McDowe, Burke, Cadwe, Watauga and Ashe counties (incudes game ands). Gun Either-Sex Deer Season Deer of either sex may ony be taken during the gun season during those dates indicated on pages 47 and Most gun either-sex seasons fa under one of the foowing four categories in North Caroina: - Maximum: Either-sex harvest is aowed the entire gun season. - Moderate: Either-sex harvest is aowed the first six open days and the ast seven open days of the reguar gun season. - Conservative: Either-sex harvest is aowed the ast six open days of the reguar gun season. - Introductory: Either-sex harvest is aowed the ast open day of the reguar gun season. Urban Archery Season Archery ony: Jan. 14 Feb. 18, 2017 Information for Hunters The intention of the Urban Archery Season is to enabe cities, towns and viages to reduce urban deer popuations through increased hunter opportunity. Hunting during the Urban Archery Season is aowed ONLY in participating municipaities. Each city, town and viage wi decide if hunting is aowed on pubic property and restrictions, if any, for hunting on private property within the city, town and viage imits. Hunters wishing to hunt in an area participating in the Urban Archery Season shoud ca the participating city, town or viage or visit its website to obtain a map showing awfu areas to hunt and additiona information on specific restrictions that may appy to each area. The Urban Archery Season does not obigate private andowners to aow hunting on their property, nor does it eiminate the /17

59 ethica requirement for obtaining permission from the andowner before hunting. Hunters are egay required to obtain written permission to hunt on posted property. The 2017 participating cities, towns and viages are: Abemare Archer Lodge Bemont Chape Hi China Grove Cayton Ceveand Concord Fairview Frankinvie Gen Apine Harrisburg Huntersvie Indian Trai Jamestown Jefferson Jonesvie Kannapois King Landis Lattimore Lenoir Midand Minera Springs Mooresboro Morganton Mount Peasant Nags Head/ Ext. 2 Ki Devi His New London cerk@newondonnc.org North Wikesboro Ext Norwood Oakboro pefird@oakboro.com Pinevie Peasant Garden urban_archery.htm Red Cross awhitey@redcross-nc.com Richfied richfiednc@ao.com Ronda Sanford Sheby Staings Stanfied 5th2386@besouth.net Summerfied Trent Woods poice@trentwoodsnc.org Troutman Unionvie townofunionvie@ao.com Vadese Wake Forest scashwe@wakeforestnc.gov Wanut Creek Waxhaw Weddington Wentworth Yadkinvie pwiiams@yadkinvie.org Season bag and possession imits for both anteress and antered deer, incuding Bonus Anteress Harvest Report Cards, that appy to the genera archery, backpowder, and gun deer seasons aso appy to the Urban Archery Season. Deer of either sex may be harvested in participating areas during the Urban Archery Season. Hunters harvesting an adut buck that has dropped its anters shoud vaidate the ki and insert the harvest authorization number on an authorization space specified for an anteress deer on the hunter s Big Game Harvest Report Card or Bonus Anteress Harvest Report Card. Information for cities, towns and viages The Urban Archery Season is avaiabe for cities, towns and viages that submit to the Widife Resources Commission by Apri 1 of each year a etter of intent to partici pate in the season. A map ceary defining the area incuded in the season shoud aso accompany the etter of intent. Interested municipaities shoud ca the Widife Management Division at and request to be contacted by a district widife bioogist. WILD TURKEY WILD TURKEY SEASONS Daiy imit 1; Possession and season imit 2, ony one of which may be taken during the youth season Youth Season (mae or bearded turkey ony): Apr. 1 7, 2017 Turkey hunting by youth during this season is aowed statewide, but some game ands wi require a permit (see Game Lands section). Each youth hunting during this season must be accompanied by a propery icensed adut at east 21 years of age ( Youth means a person ess than 16 years of age). The adut may accompany more than one youth during any particuar hunt and the adut may NOT harvest a turkey. Ony one weapon is aowed per youth hunter. Each youth must have a Big Game Harvest Report Card and report harvests according to instructions in this Digest. License-exempt youth shoud report their harvest using a Big Game Harvest Report Card for License-Exempt Hunters. Statewide Spring Season (mae or bearded turkey ony) Apr. 8 May 6, 2017 Note: For information on permit hunts for seect Game Lands, refer to the Game Lands section. Restrictions It is unawfu to: Use dogs during the spring wid turkey season. Use any type of handgun or rife to hunt wid turkey. Take wid turkeys from an area in which bait has been paced. (An area is considered baited unti 10 days after the bait has been consumed or otherwise removed.) Possess ive wid turkeys or ive birds that are indistinguishabe from wid turkeys. BIG GAME HARVEST REPORTING Vaidating a Harvest Upon harvesting a bear, deer or wid turkey, and before moving the anima from the siteofki, the successfu hunter must vaidate the Big Game Harvest Report Card, fur nished with the big game hunting icense, by cutting or punching out the crosshair symbo next to the appropriate authorization ine. Instructions in this section aso appy to the Bonus Anteress Report Card. Hunters shoud retain ony one copy of their Big Game Harvest Report Card per hunting season. If the hunter has received a repacement copy of their Big Game Harvest Report Card, the hunter must ensure that a previous harvest authorization numbers are copied over to their new card and destroy their origina copy. Registering a Harvest The hunter must register any harvested bear, deer or wid turkey within 24 hours of the harvest and before it is skinned, dressed or dismembered. Harvest ID. Harvest ID is the 9-digit number ocated on your Big Game Harvest Report Card. Hunters must ocate the Harvest ID number next to the anima type they harvested and provide this HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED. 2016/17 57

60 HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION number when registering the harvest through a cooperator agent, the teephone reporting system or the onine reporting system. Hunters who obtain their icense and big game priviege by phone wi be given their Harvest ID numbers during the ca. If the hunter harvests a big game anima before receiving the Big Game Harvest Report Card in the mai, the hunter must immediatey, upon receipt of the Big Game Harvest Report Card, record the authorization number for the reported harvest on the ine above the Harvest ID number he or she used when reporting the harvest. Big game animas may be fied dressed before being registered. Fied dressing incudes beeding and remova of digestive, respi - ratory and circuatory organs, but the hunter may not mutiate the carcass in a manner that obscures the identity, age or sex. When a ki occurs in a remote area that prevents the anima from being transported as an entire carcass, the anima may be skinned and quartered before being registered. When a hunter harvests an anima in a remote area and pans to remain in the area for onger than a day, the 24-hour time is extended unti the hunter eaves the area. However, the hunter must immediatey register the anima upon eaving the remote area. Bear and deer (except those deer harvested during the Urban Archery Season) may be registered in one of four ways: 1. By caing the to-free phone number, 800-I-GOT-ONE ( ). A touch tone teephone is required. 2. By using the Internet and cicking the Report a Harvest ink ocated on the NCWRC home page ( 3. By reporting the harvest to a participating widife service agent ocation ( 4. By reporting the harvest to a participating widife cooperator agent. REGISTERING a Big Game Ki Required for Bear, Deer, and Wid Turkey taken in North Caroina Before moving the anima from the site of ki (where the anima fe), vaidate your Big Game Harvest Report Card by punching or cutting in the appropriate cross hair symbo that correcty identifies the big game anima harvested. Register by reporting the harvest within 24 hours and record the authorization number on your Big Game Harvest Report Card. Reporting must be done within 24 hours of ki and before the anima is skinned, dressed, or dismembered for consumption. If the anima is eft unattended before registering, it must be identified with your name, hunting icense number and date of ki. An exampe woud be if you eave it hanging in a cooer. If you eave an anima with a processor or taxidermist, donate it to Hunters for the Hungry or give it to someone ese, you must have the authorization number attached to the carcass. The processor or taxidermist needs to keep a record of species and sex of animas received and name and address of hunter. To register, choose one of the foowing options and have your Big Game Harvest Report Card and pen ready. Ca to-free Go onine to ncwidife.org. Visit a participating widife service agent ocation. Visit a widife cooperator agent. This service is not avaiabe for reporting Wid Turkey, and Urban Archery Deer. Wid turkeys and deer harvested during the Urban Archery Season can ony be registered through the to-free teephone, on-ine at ncwidife.org or at a participating widife service ocation. Hunters shoud report each harvest ony ONCE. For exampe, if you have reported your harvest over the teephone, you shoud not aso register your harvest with an agent or on the Internet. Recording the Authorization Number When a success fu hunter registers a big game harvest, the hunter wi be issued an authorization number for the anima. The hunter sha then record the authorization number in the space provided, imme - diatey adjacent to the vaidation mark that has been cut or punched out on the Big Game Harvest Report Card. This record sha thereafter constitute the authorization for continued possession of the carcass. It sha be unawfu for a person to possess a Big Game Harvest Report Card on which the species vaidation mark has been cut or punched out, but on which the authorization number has not been recorded, uness the anima is in the person s possession or it has been identified by with your name, hunting icense number and date of ki. Identifying an Unattended Ki Persons kiing a big game anima and eaving it unattended must identify the carcass with their name, hunting icense number and date of ki. Once an unattended anima is registered, it need ony be identified with the authorization number. Reporting for License-Exempt Hunters Persons who are by aw exempt from the Big Game Hunting License requirement sha obtain a License-Exempt Big Game Harvest Report Card from a widife service agent at no cost. Upon harvest ing a bear, deer or wid turkey, the exempt person sha vaidate the License-Exempt Big Game Harvest Report Card and report the big game ki using the same registration methods isted above. Deer Management Assistance Program Harvest Reporting Persons harvesting deer under the Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) sha foow the tagging and reporting require - ments described in the instructions they have received as a partici pant in the DMAP. SMALL GAME AND OTHER SEASONS RACCOON AND OPOSSUM Oct. 17 (at sunrise) Feb. 28 Opossum: No bag imits Raccoon daiy imit 3: No possession or season imits Genera Restrictions Fied possession imit whie hunting is the same as the daiy bag imit. No person sha possess more than one daiy bag imit whie in the fied or whie returning from the fied to one s vehice, hunting camp or residence. Axes and saws may not be carried when raccoon or opossum hunting. It is unawfu to shoot raccoon during the daytime, west of U.S. 1, except in Richmond County. It is unawfu to carry firearms or cimbing irons when training dogs during cosed seasons, except under specia fied-tria reguations. SQUIRREL Gray and Red (statewide): Oct. 17 Feb. 28 Daiy imit 8; No possession or season imits Fox Squirre: Oct. 17 Dec. 31 Daiy imit 1; Possession 2; Season 10 In the foowing counties: Aeghany Edgecombe Moore Scotand Anson Greene New Hanover Stokes Ashe Harnett Onsow Surry Baden Hoke Pender Watauga /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

61 Brunswick Johnston Pitt Wayne Cumberand Jones Richmond Wikes Dupin Lenoir Sampson RABBIT Nov. 19 Feb. 28 (hunting and box-trapping*) Daiy imit 5; No possession or season imits *A trapping icense is not required to box-trap rabbits, but a vaid hunting icense is necessary. QUAIL Nov. 19 Feb. 28 Daiy imit 6; Possession 12; Season, no imit GROUSE Oct. 17 Feb. 28 Daiy imit 3; Possession 6; Season 30 BOBCAT Oct. 17 Feb. 28 No imits GROUNDHOG, NUTRIA, COYOTE, SKUNK (STRIPED), ARMADILLO AND FERAL SWINE (HOGS) There is no cosed season or bag imit. Hunters may use eectronic cas for coyotes and fera swine. Fera swine may be hunted at night with ights. Coyotes may be hunted at night except in the counties of Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Tyrre and Washington. In those five counties, the foowing appy: -hunting hours are 1/2 hour before sunrise to 1/2 hour after sunset -a coyote hunting requires a permit -permits can be obtained at ncwidife.org or by caing a coyote harvests must be reported. See page 60 for more information about coyote hunting in the five counties isted above. PHEASANT Nov. 12 Feb. 1 (mae pheasant ony) Daiy imit 3; Possession 6; Season 30 FOX Year Round (incuding Sundays) Must be taken with dogs ony; no imits. Loca aws may restrict hunting foxes with dogs. See the Fox Season Hunting and Trapping Laws pubication at ncwidife.org or ca to request a copy. Nov. 12 Jan. 2 (archery season); Nov Jan. 2 (firearm season) Daiy imit 2; Season 10 This season appies as foows: In those counties and parts of counties east of I-77 where oca aws do not prohibit the taking of foxes or that do not have estabished fox seasons and Mitche and Cadwe County. Foxes taken during this hunting season sha not be bought or sod. In Cadwe County, foxes may be taken by firearms ony. Jan. 7 28, 2017 Daiy imit 2; Season 10 Foxes may be taken in the counties isted beow by ega weapons and may be sod after being propery tagged (refer to page 10 for more information on fox tags): Cay Macon Graham Tyrre Henderson Hunters must possess fox tags prior to harvesting foxes during this season. There is no open weapons hunting season in any other county except where provided by oca aws. To see if your county has a hunting season on foxes, visit ncwidife.org/foxseasons, or ca to request a copy. EXTENDED SEASON FOR TAKE BY FALCONRY Oct. 7 Feb. 28 (Appies ony to rabbits) Outside of Reguar Season Dates: Rabbits: Daiy imit 3; Possession imit 6 Reguar species bag imits appy during reguar seasons. BEAVER There is an open season for taking beaver with firearms or bow and arrow during any open season for the taking of wid animas, provided that permission has been obtained from the owner or essee of the and on which the beaver is being taken. CONTROLLED HUNTING PRESERVES Oct. 1 Mar. 31 No imits. This appies to domesticay raised birds (maard ducks and upand game birds) ony. No wid turkey may be taken. MIGRATORY BIRDS Migratory Birds Protected Federa aws protecting migratory birds (songbirds, woodpeckers, raptors or waterfow) take precedence over state aws. Before any migratory birds may be taken or kied during the cosed season, a federa permit must be obtained from the U.S. Fish and Widife Service. Substantia penaties for vioations appy. Ca the U.S. Fish and Widife Service, Division of Migratory Bird Permits Section in Atanta, Ga. at for information.during the May 1 Aug.31 time period, depredation permits issued directy from the Wid - ife Resources Commission are avaiabe when Canada geese are depredating in commercia agricuture situations. Contact the Commission at for more information. Federa seasons and bag imits on migratory game birds are adopted as state reguations. Coonia Water Bird Nesting Areas Coasta isands and beach areas posted as Coonia Water Bird Nesting areas are being managed for our nesting popuations of peicans, terns, gus, herons and egrets. Specia reguations appy. Access is prohibited on these areas from Apri 1 Aug. 31, except by specia permit. Dogs are not aowed on these areas during this time period. Access on these areas from Sept. 1 March 30 wi be aowed as authorized by the andowner. MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS HUNTING STAMPS AND PRIVILEGES Harvest Information Program (HIP) A icensed hunters hunt - ing migratory game birds (dove, rais, woodcock, snipe or water fow) in North Caroina are required to have certification of participation in the federa Harvest Information Program (HIP). Certification can be obtained free of charge by going onine at ncwidife.org, caing , or visiting a widife service agent. Migratory Bird Hunting And Conservation Stamp (Federa Duck Stamp) The aw requires that each water fow hunter 16 years of age and oder, must carry on his person a vaid Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, or federa duck stamp, HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION 2016/17 59

62 HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION BEFORE YOU SHOOT... Know the Differences between Red Woves and Coyotes Whie they may ook simiar, coyotes and red woves are considered two different species with different eves of protection. Red woves (Canis rufus) are federay protected under the Endangered Species Act. Red woves are aso state isted as a threatened species. No hunting, trapping or harassing of red woves is aowed except when permitted by the U.S. Fish and Widife Service. Whie coyotes (Canis atrans) may be taken statewide on private ands day or night and on state ands during daytime in the rest of the state, on private ands in Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Tyrre and Washington counties, coyote hunting is daytime ony and requires a permit. Appy for a coyote hunting permit onine at or ca Any coyote shot in the five-county area must be reported to the Widife Resources Commission, as detaied on the permit, within 24 hours. If a red wof is shot incidentay, you must report the shooting to the U.S. Fish and Widife Service or the Widife Resources Commission at within 24 hours. Know your target before you shoot. RED WOLVES ARE: Approximatey 5' ong from nose to tai Mosty brown and buff coored with some back on back; often reddish coor behind ears, on muzze and toward back of egs Ta, pointed ears Long, sender egs with arge feet PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF USFWS COYOTES ARE: Approximatey 3' ong from nose to tai Varying in coor ranging from buff, brown, grey or back Longer, narrower muzze a ATTENTION COYOTE HUNTERS! b We are asking hunters who harvest a coyote in Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Tyrre and Washington counties to participate in the Canid Cooperator Program to hep us monitor the coyote popuation in the area. Pu a tuft of hair from any coyote you harvest. Fi out a data sheet and submit it, aong with the tuft of hair, to: N.C. Widife Resources Commission, Widife Management Division, 1722 MSC, Raeigh, N.C Your information aows our bioogists to better monitor coyote popuations, make management decisions and evauate the impact of coyote harvests in the five-county area. Learn more about the Canid Cooperator Program, and downoad a data sheet: ncwidife.org/coyote /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

63 signed in ink across the face. (Hunters under age 16 may vo - untariy purchase a duck stamp and hep preserve wetands for waterfow.) Refer to page 9 for more information. North Caroina Waterfow Priviege Each waterfow hunter 16 years of age and oder must carry on his person a icense having the North Caroina Waterfow Priviege. The North Caroina Water - fow Priviege is required in addition to the federa duck stamp. Refer to the License Types section on page 5 of this digest for information on which icenses incude this priviege icense. North Caroina Duck Stamp Hunters are no onger required to carry the North Caroina duck stamp whie hunting for water - fow; however, the current year s duck stamp wi be avaiabe for coecting purposes; ca for more information. MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS SEASONS Shooting Hours: Uness otherwise specified, shooting hours for a migratory game birds incuding waterfow are ½ hour before sunrise to sunset Possession Limits: Possession Limits for a migratory game birds incuding waterfow are 3 times the daiy imit uness otherwise specified. DOVE (incudes Mourning Dove and White-winged Dove) Sep. 3 Oct. 8 & Nov. 21 Jan. 14 Daiy imit 15; either singy or in the aggregate for mourning doves and white-winged doves RAILS (incudes King, Capper and Virginia Rais and Sora) Sep. 1 Oct. 1 & Oct. 14 Nov. 21 Daiy Limit 15 King or Capper Rais either singy or in the aggregate Daiy Limit 25 Virginia Rais or Sora either singy or in the aggregate GALLINULE AND MOORHEN Sep. 1 Oct. 1 & Oct. 14 Nov. 21 Daiy Limit 15 Gainues and Moorhens either singy or in the aggregate WOODCOCK Dec. 15 Jan. 28 Daiy Limit 3 COMMON SNIPE Nov. 14 Feb. 28 Daiy Limit 8 SEPTEMBER TEAL SEASON (incudes Green-winged tea, Bue-winged tea and Cinnamon tea) Sep. 10 Sep. 28 Daiy Limit 6 The September Tea Season is open ony in that area east of U.S. Highway 17. DUCKS Oct. 5 8, Nov. 12 Dec. 3 & Dec. 17 Jan. 28 Daiy imit 6 with the foowing restrictions: no more than 4 maards (2 hen maards), 4 scoters, 4 eiders, 4 ong-taied ducks, 3 wood ducks, 2 scaup, 2 redheads, 2 pintais, 2 canvasbacks, 1 back or motted duck (season cosed unti Nov. 19) and 1 fuvous whisting duck. The season on harequin ducks is cosed. COOTS Season dates same as ducks Daiy imit 15 coots MERGANSERS Season dates same as ducks Daiy imit 5 mergansers with no more than 2 hooded mergansers SEA DUCKS (in specia sea duck area ony) Nov. 21 Jan. 28 Daiy imit 5 with no more than 4 scoters, 4 ong-taied ducks and 4 eiders The taking of sea ducks (scoter, eider and ong-taied ducks), except during the reguar duck season sha be imited to the waters of the Atantic Ocean, and to those coasta waters south of U.S. 64 that are separated by a distance of at east 800 yards of open water from any shore, isand or marsh. Specia sea duck bag imits and seasons appy in these areas. During the reguar season, this bag imit may be in addition to the imits appying to other ducks. In a other areas, sea ducks may be taken ony during the reguar open season for ducks, and they must be incuded in the reguar duck season daiy bag and possession imits. Because sea ducks are imited to 60 days of hunting exposure in any area, there wi be certain dates and ocations where sea ducks may or may not be taken. Pease see the foowing: HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION Genera Duck Season Open Specia Sea Duck Season Cosed (Oct. 5 Oct. 8 & Nov. 12 Nov. 19) Sea ducks cannot be taken in the specia sea duck area, but can be taken every - where ese. The genera bag imit of six ducks with no more than four scoters, four ong-taied duck and four eiders appies.athough sea ducks may not be taken in the specia sea duck area during this time, other ducks may be taken in this area. Genera Duck Season Cosed Specia Sea Duck Season Open (Dec. 5 Dec. 16) Sea ducks can be taken ony in the specia sea duck area, but cannot be taken in other ocations. The specia sea duck bag imit appies and consists of five sea ducks with no more than four scoters, four ong-taied ducks and four eiders. Genera Duck Season Open Specia Sea Duck Season Open (Nov. 21 Dec. 3 & Dec. 17 Jan. 28) Sea ducks can be taken anywhere. Hunters shoud remember that the specia sea duck imit appies when hunting in the specia sea duck area and the genera bag imit appies when hunting in a other areas. When both seasons overap, the specia sea duck bag imit may be in addition to the imits appying to other ducks. 2016/17 61

64 HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION SEPTEMBER CANADA GOOSE SEASON Sep. 1 Sep. 30 Daiy bag 15 In that area west of U.S. Highway 17 ony, expanded hunting methods are aowed for Canada geese. These incude: shooting hours are extended to ½ hour after sunset, unpugged guns are aowed, eectronic cas are permitted. This appies to this area ony during the month of September. DARK GEESE (incudes Canada Geese and White-fronted geese) see Goose Zone Map on Page 55 Resident Popuation Zone Oct. 5 Oct. 15, Nov. 12 Dec. 3 & Dec. 17 Feb. 11 Daiy bag 5 Southern James Bay Zone Oct. 5 Nov. 4 & Nov. 12 Dec. 31 Daiy bag 5 Northeast Hunt Zone (by permit ony) Jan. 13 Jan. 28 Daiy bag 1 Refer to ncwidife.org/permithunt for information. TUNDRA SWAN (by permit ony) Nov. 12 Jan. 31 Bag imit 1 per season with specia permit A imited number of permits wi be issued to hunt tundra swans. Permits wi be issued by a random drawing authorizing each permit hoder to harvest one tundra swan. The foowing reguations appy. The permit and tag are not transferrabe and are vaid ony for the person whose name appears on the permit. It is unawfu to possess a swan permit or tag whie hunting that was assigned to another person, or to ater the permit or tag in any way other than cutting out the proper month and day of ki. The permit must be canceed by cutting out both the month and day of ki immediatey at the time and pace of the ki. The permit must be affixed to the harvested swan in accordance with instructions provided with the permit. The permit must be carried on one s person whie hunting or, if in possession of a swan, the permit must be affixed to the swan. Every hunter receiving a swan permit wi aso receive a questionnaire. If the hunter does not return that competed questionnaire to the Widife Resources Commission by Apri 1, that hunter wi be ineigibe for a tundra swan permit the foowing season. Refer to ncwidife.org/permithunt for information. LIGHT GEESE (incudes Snow geese, Bue geese and Ross geese) Reguar Season Oct. 11 Feb. 11 Daiy bag 25; no possession imit Conservation Order Season (by permit ony) Feb. 13 March 31 Daiy bag none; no possession imit During the Conservation Order Season for ight geese, expanded hunting methods are aowed. These incude the use of unpugged guns and eectronic cas. In addition, shooting hours are extended unti ½ hour past sunset. To earn more or to appy for a permit after Juy 1, go to ncwidife.org/ightgoose BRANT Dec. 17 Jan. 28 Daiy bag 1 YOUTH WATERFOWL DAY(S) Feb. 4 & Feb. 11 Waterfow hunting outside the reguar season is aowed on the day(s) officiay designated as Youth Waterfow Day. Lega species incude ducks, geese, brant, tundra swans, mergansers, moorhens, gainues and coots. The youth must have a vaid permit to hunt tundra swans and Canada geese (NE Hunt Zone ony). Youth under the age of 18 may participate in accordance with the guideines isted beow: Youth under the age of 16 who have obtained a Hunter Education Certification must be accompanied by an adut age 18 or oder. Youth under the age of 16 who have not successfuy competed a Hunter Education Course must be accompanied by a propery icensed adut age 18 or oder. Youth age 16 & 17 must be propery icensed, must have HIP certification and a federa duck stamp and must be accompanied by an adut age 18 or oder. The youth age provision that authorizes those under the age of 18 to hunt is specific to Youth Waterfow Days. Any other day, the youth age provision is under the age of 16. Accompanying aduts that are propery icensed may not duck hunt, but may participate in other open seasons on youth waterfow days. EXTENDED FALCONRY SEASONS DOVE (extended faconry season) Oct. 15 Oct. 31 Daiy bag 3 KING, CLAPPER AND VIRGINIA RAIL, SORA, GALLINULE AND MOORHEN (extended faconry season) Dec. 3 Jan. 7 Daiy bag 3 WOODCOCK (extended faconry season) Nov. 5 Dec. 3 & Feb. 1 Feb. 28 Daiy bag 3 DUCKS, MERGANSERS AND COOTS (extended faconry seasons) Oct. 25 Nov. 5 & Jan. 31 Feb. 18 Daiy bag 3 Faconers may aso hunt during the appicabe gun seasons for migratory game birds. The daiy bag and possession imits of 3 and 9 respectivey, aso appy whie hunting during the gun seasons Faconry hours for a species are ½ hour before sunrise unti sunset Faconry for migratory game birds is not aowed on Sunday Daiy bag and possession imits are for a species singy or in the aggregate. For exampe, if the appicabe seasons are open a daiy bag may consist of 3 doves or 1 dove, 1 duck and 1 woodcock for a tota of 3 migratory game birds CROW SEASONS Season Bag Limits Aug. 1, Feb. 28, 2017-Wednesday, Friday No restriction and Saturday of each week. June 1, 2017-Juy 30, 2017-Wednesday Friday and Saturday of each week. Crows may aso be hunted on Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Independence Day; except when these days fa on a Sunday /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

65 Nontoxic Shot Requirements In North Caroina, no person sha take waterfow whie possessing shes oaded with any shot other than stee or other approved nontoxic materias. On posted water - fow impoundments on game ands, it is unawfu to hunt with or have in possession any shotgun she containing ead or toxic shot whie hunting; except shotgun shes containing ead buck - shot may be used whie deer hunting. Nontoxic shot is required for the taking of captive-reared maards on shooting preserves, in fied trias and during bona fide dog-training activities. SUMMARY OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS In addition to state reguations, the foowing federa rues appy to the taking, possession, shipping, transporting and storing of migratory game birds. No persons sha take migratory game birds: With a trap, snare, net, rife, pisto, swive gun, shotgun arger than 10 gauge, punt gun, battery gun, machinegun, fish hook, poison, drug, exposive, or stupefying substance; With a shotgun of any description capabe of hoding more than three shes, uness it is pugged with a one-piece fier, incapabe of remova without disassembing the gun, so its tota capacity does not exceed three shes. This restriction does not appy during dates states have seected under the Conservation Order for ight geese (i.e. greater and esser snow and Ross s geese) or those seected for the contro of resident Canada geese. From or by means, aid, or use of a sinkbox or any other type of ow-foating device, having a depression affording the hunter a means of conceament beneath the surface of the water; From or by means, aid, or use of any motor vehice, motor-driven and conveyance, or aircraft of any kind, except that parapegics and persons missing one or both egs may take from any station - ary motor vehice or stationary motor-driven and conveyance; From or by means of any motorboat or other craft having a motor attached, or any saiboat, uness the motor has been competey shut off and/or the sais fured, and its progress there from has ceased except in pursuit of wounded waterfow in specia sea duck areas; By the use or aid of ive birds as decoys; athough not imited to, it sha be a vioation of this paragraph for any person to take migratory waterfow on an area where tame or captive ive ducks or geese are present uness such birds are and have been for a period of 10 consecutive days prior to such taking, confined within an encosure which substantiay reduces the audibiity of their cas and totay conceas such birds from the sight of wid migratory waterfow; By the use or aid of recorded or eectricay ampified bird cas or sounds, or recorded or eectricay ampified imitations of bird cas or sounds. This restriction does not appy during dates states have seected under the Conservation Order for ight geese (i.e. greater and esser snow and Ross s geese) or those seected for the contro of resident Canada geese. By means or aid of any motor-driven and, water, or air conveyance, or any saiboat used for the purpose of or resuting in the con - centrating, driving, raying, or stirring up of any migratory bird; By the aid of baiting, or on or over any baited area, where a person knows or reasonaby shoud know that the area is or has been baited. It is ega to take migratory game birds incuding waterfow, coots, and cranes, on or over the foowing ands or areas that are not otherwise baited areas: Standing crops or fooded standing crops (incuding aquatics); Standing, fooded, or manipuated natura vegetation; fooded harvested cropands; or ands or areas where seeds or grains have been scattered soey as the resut of a norma agricutura panting, harvesting, post-harvest manipuation or norma soi stabiization practice; From a bind or other pace of conceament camoufaged with natura vegetation; From a bind or other pace of conceament camoufaged with vegetation from agricutura crops, as ong as such camoufaging does not resut in the exposing, depositing, distributing or scattering of grain or other feed; or Standing or fooded standing agricutura crops where grain is inadvertenty scattered soey as a resut of a hunter entering or exiting a hunting area, pacing decoys, or retrieving downed birds. It is ega to take migratory game birds, except waterfow, coots and cranes, on or over ands or areas that are not otherwise baited areas, and where grain or other feed has been distributed or scattered soey as the resut of manipuation of an agricu - tura crop or other feed on the and where grown, or soey as the resut of a norma agricutura operation. Wanton Waste of Migratory Game Birds No person sha ki or crippe any migratory game bird without making a reasonabe effort to retrieve the bird, and retain it in his actua custody, at the pace where taken or between that pace and either (a) his automobie or principa means of and transporta tion; or (b) his persona abode or temporary or transient pace of odging; or (c) a migratory bird preservation faciity; or (d) a post office; or (e) a common carrier faciity. Non-toxic Shot No person may take ducks, geese (incuding brant), swans or coots whie possessing shot (either in shot shes or as oose shot for backpowder) other than approved non-toxic shot. For a ist of approved non-toxic shot, see Opening Day of a Season No person on the opening day of the season sha possess any freshy kied migratory game birds in excess of the daiy bag imit, or aggregate daiy bag imit, whichever appies. Fied Possession Limit No person sha possess, have in custody, or transport more than the daiy bag imit or aggregate daiy bag imit, whichever appies, of migratory game birds, tagged or not tagged, at or between the pace where taken and either (a) his automobie or principa means of and transpor - tation; or (b) his persona abode or temporary or transient pace of odging; or (c) a migratory bird preservation faciity; or (d) a post office; or (e) a common carrier faciity. Tagging Requirement No person sha put or eave any migra - tory game birds at any pace (other than at his persona abode), or in the custody of another person for picking, cean ing, processing, shipping, transportation, or storage (incuding temporary storage), or for the purpose of having taxidermy services performed, uness such birds have a tag attached, signed by the hunter, stating his address, the tota number and species of birds, and the date such birds were kied. Migratory game birds being transported in any vehice as the persona baggage of the possessor sha not be considered as being in storage or temporary storage. Custody of Birds of Another No person sha receive or have in custody any migratory game birds beonging to another person uness such birds are propery tagged. Termination of Possession Subject to a other require ments of this part, the possession of birds taken by any hunter sha be deemed to have ceased when such birds have been deivered by him to another person as a gift; or have been deivered by him to a post office, a common carrier, or a migratory bird preservation faciity and consigned for transport by the Posta Service or a common carrier to some person other than the hunter. Gift of Migratory Game Birds No person may receive, possess, or give to another, any freshy kied migratory game birds as a gift, except at the persona abodes of the donor or donee, uness such birds have a tag attached, signed by the hunter who took 2016/17 63 HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION

66 HUNTING REGULATIONS & INFORMATION the birds, stating such hunter s address, the tota number and species of birds and the date such birds were taken. Transportation of Birds of Another No person sha transport migratory game birds beonging to another person uness such birds are propery tagged. Species Identification Requirement No person sha transport within the United States any migratory game birds, except doves and band-taied pigeons, uness the head or one fuy feathered wing remains attached to each such bird at a times whie being transported from the pace where taken unti they have arrived at the persona abode of the possessor or a migratory bird preservation faciity. Marking Package or Container No person sha transport by the Posta Service or a common carrier migratory game birds uness the package or container in which such birds are trans - ported has the name and address of the shipper and the consignee and an accurate statement of the numbers of each species of birds therein contained ceary and conspicuousy marked on the outside thereof. Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp The aw requires that each waterfow hunter 16 years of age and oder must carry on his person a Migratory Bird Hunting and Con - servation Stamp (Federa Duck Stamp) that is vaidated by the hunter signing the stamp in ink across the face of the stamp. More restrictive reguations may appy to Nationa Widife Refuges opened to pubic hunting. For additiona information on refuge-specific reguations see DEFINITIONS Migratory Birds are birds protected by federa aw as a resut of treaties signed with other countries. Protected migratory birds are isted in Tite 50 Code of Federa Reguations, Section This ist incudes amost a birds found in the United States with the exception of the house sparrow, fera pigeon (commony caed rock dove), European staring, Eurasian coared-dove, mute swan, and upand game birds (which are protected by state aws). A migratory birds are protected. However, a subset of migratory birds cassified as migratory game birds may be hunted in accordance with State and Federa reguations. The ist of migratory game birds incudes species of ducks, geese (incuding brant), swans, doves and pigeons, cranes, rais, coots, gainues and moorhens, woodcock and snipe, if there is an open season. Daiy bag imit means the maximum number of migratory game birds of a singe species or combination (aggregate) of species permitted to be taken by one person in any one day during the open season in any one specified geographic area for which a daiy bag imit is prescribed. Aggregate daiy bag imit means the maximum number of migratory game birds permitted to be taken by one person in any one day during the open season when such person hunts in more than one specified geographic area and/or for more than one species for which a combined daiy bag imit is prescribed. The aggregate daiy bag imit is equa to, but sha not exceed, the argest daiy bag imit prescribed for any one species or for any one specified geographic area in which taking occurs. Possession imit means the maximum number of migratory game birds of a singe species or a combination of species permitted to be possessed by any one person when awfuy taken in the United States in any one specified geographic area for which a possession imit is prescribed. Aggregate possession imit means the maximum number of migratory game birds of a singe species or combination of species taken in the United States permitted to be possessed by any one person when taking and possession occurs in more than one specified geographic area for which a possession imit is prescribed. The aggregate possession imit is equa to, but sha not exceed, the argest possession imit prescribed for any one of the species or specified geographic areas in which taking and possession occurs. Persona abode means one s principa or ordinary home or dwe - ing pace, as distinguished from one s temporary or transient pace of abode or dweing such as a hunting cub, or any cub house, cabin, tent or traier house used as a hunting cub, or any hote, mote or rooming house used during a hunting, peasure or business trip. Migratory bird preservation faciity means: (1) Any person who, at their residence or pace of business and for hire or other consideration; or (2) Any taxidermist, cod-storage faciity or ocker pant which, for hire or other consideration; or (3) Any hunting cub which, in the norma course of operations; receives, possesses, or has in custody any migratory game birds beonging to another person for purposes of picking, ceaning, freezing, processing, storage or shipment. Norma agricutura panting, harvesting, or post-harvest manipuation means a panting or harvesting undertaken for the purpose of producing and gathering a crop, or manipuation after such harvest and remova of grain, that is conducted in accordance with officia recommendations of State Extension Speciaists of the Cooperative Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agricuture. Norma agricutura operation means a norma agricutura panting, harvesting, post-harvest manipuation, or agricutura practice that is conducted in accordance with officia recom - mendations of State Extension Speciaists of the Cooperative Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agricuture. Norma soi stabiization practice means a panting for agricutura soi erosion contro or post-mining and recamation conducted in accordance with officia recommendations of State Extension Speciaists of the Cooperative Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agricuture for agricutura soi erosion contro. Baited area means any area on which sat, grain, or other feed has been paced, exposed, deposited, distributed, or scattered, if that sat, grain, or other feed coud serve as a ure or attraction for migratory game birds to, on, or over areas where hunters are attempting to take them. Any such area wi remain a baited area for 10 days foowing the compete remova of a such sat, grain, or other feed. Baiting means the direct or indirect pacing, exposing, depositing, distributing, or scattering of sat, grain, or other feed that coud serve as a ure or attraction for migratory game birds to, on, or over any areas where hunters are attempting to take them. Manipuation means the ateration of natura vegetation or agricutura crops by activities that incude but are not imited to mowing, shredding, discing, roing, chopping, tramping, fattening, burning, or herbicide treatments. The term manip - ua tion does not incude the distributing or scattering of grain, seed, or other feed after remova from or storage on the fied where grown. Natura vegetation means any non-agricutura, native, or naturaized pant species that grows at a site in response to panting or from existing seeds or other propagues. The term natura vegetation does not incude panted miet. However, panted miet that grows on its own in subsequent years after the year of panting is considered natura vegetation /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

67 Game Lands Some 2,000,000 acres of pubic and private ands in North Caroina are managed by the Widife Resources Commission for pubic hunting, trapping and inand fishing. They are designated coectivey as game ands. Hunting on the Roanoke River Nationa Widife Refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish & Widife Service and the N.C. Widife Resources Com mission through a joint venture. Additiona reguations appy to the Roanoke River Nationa Widife Refuge. Individua maps are avaiabe onine at ncwidife.org. GAME LANDS LICENSE The Game Lands License is required, in addition to the appropriate hunting or trapping icense, to hunt, trap, train dogs using widife or participate in fied trias using widife on any game and. (The Game Lands License is incuded with some ifetime or sportsman s icenses.) A specia permit may be required for some species on these areas. For commission-sanctioned fied trias using widife schedued on game ands by the Widife Resources Commission, judges are exempt and active participants (defined as anyone who handes a dog or uses a firearm) in possession of hunting icenses from their own states may participate without the icense. For any other game and fied tria using widife, both judges and active participants must possess a game ands icense or other North Caroina icense which conveys the game and use priviege. Persons who are observing ony at fied trias do not need any icense. Hunting Seasons Uness otherwise indicated for a particuar game and, game anima and game bird seasons are the same as the private and surround ing the game and. Uness otherwise provided by permit, hunting is aowed on game ands ony during the open seasons for game animas and game birds and is restricted to weapons awfu for open game anima or game bird seasons. GAME LANDS RESTRICTIONS Waterfow Hunting On waterfow impoundments with a posted perimeter boundary, it is unawfu on the ega hunting days for hunters to be within the posted impoundment area before 4 a.m., and hunting is prohibited after 1 p.m.; decoys may not be set out prior to 4 a.m. and must be removed by 3 p.m. each day. On designated youth waterfow days occurring after the end of the reguar waterfow seasons, youth under age 18 may hunt in these game ands impoundments unti sunset (a other restrictions sti appy). At a other times, youth are individuas under 16 years of age when hunting on game ands. Waterfow binds may be constructed on most game ands; how ever, they become pubic property and can be used by anyone on a first-come, first-served basis. Binds on areas not owned by the state must be removed after the hunting season; and on some game ands, the property owners may prohibit construction of permanent hunting binds by post ing a sign at the entrances stating such restrictions. It is unawfu to hunt in or within 100 yards of a designated Disabed Sportsman s Waterfow Bind during the waterfow season, except by a disabed access permit hoder and his or her permitted companion or hoders of appicabe disabed waterfow hunt permits. It is unawfu to hunt with or have in possession any shotgun she containing ead or toxic shot whie hunting on any posted waterfow impoundment on any game and, except shotgun shes containing ead buckshot may be used whie deer hunting. It is unawfu to operate interna combustion engine-powered vesses or vehices on posted waterfow impoundments. If a waterfow impoundment has a posted scouting-ony zone, a activities except hunting and trapping are restricted to that zone from Nov. 1 to March 15. When open days for waterfow incude Christmas and New Year s Day and those days fa on Sundays, the open waterfow hunting day is the foowing Monday. Vehice Usage Driving a motorized vehice icensed for highway use is aowed ony on those roads constructed, maintained and open for vehicuar trave and those trais posted for vehicuar use. This does not appy to participants in schedued bird dog fied trias hed on the Sandhis Game Land. Operation of any motorized and vehice, incuding ATVs, not icensed for highway use is prohibited, except as otherwise expressy aowed. This does not appy to those areas specificay designated in nationa forests for unicensed vehice use. On those game ands or parts thereof specificay isted under the Disabed Access Program (page 67), persons hoding a Disabed Veteran or Totay Disabed License, a Disabed Sportsman Hunt Certification, or a Disabed Access Permit may operate vehices, incuding ATVs on: - any Widife Resources Commission-maintained road open for vehicuar trave - those trais posted for vehicuar trave - ungated and open-gated roads otherwise cosed to vehicuar traffic. It is unawfu to bock traffic or gates or otherwise prevent vehices from using any roadway. On roads posted as imited access motorized vehices are prohibited from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. during the months of June, Juy and August. Weapons It is unawfu to discharge any weapon: - from a vehice, - within 150 yards of any residence ocated on or adjacent to game ands, - within 150 yards of any game ands buiding or game ands camping area (uness otherwise posted). The 150-yard provision of this rue does not appy to the use of archery equipment on Butner-Fas of Neuse and Jordan game ands. Firearms may be carried openy, or conceaed with a vaid con - ceaed handgun permit, at any time on game ands, except for the game ands noted in this section. Hunting is aowed ONLY during the open seasons on game birds and game animas. On Buckhorn, Chatham, Harris, Hyco, Lee, Mayo, and Sutton Lake game ands, and Pee Dee River Game Land north of U.S. 74, and that portion of R. Wayne Baiey-Caswe Game Land that is ocated north of U.S. 158 and east of N.C. 119 during cosed seasons and cosed hunting days on game birds (waterfow, doves, wood cock, snipe, rais, gainues, moorhens, coots, grouse, pheasant, quai, turkey) and game animas (deer, bear, fox, rabbits, squirres, bobcats, opossum, raccoon), it is unawfu to possess any firearm readiy avai abe for use. During that time in which fox season is the ony open season for a game anima, it is aso unawfu to possess these weapons. However, persons may possess a firearm during the cosed season on these game ands if: - it is cased or not immediatey avaiabe for use; - it is used by persons participating in fied trias on fied tria areas; - it is possessed in designated camping areas for defense of persons and property; - or if it is a 22-caiber pisto with a barre, not greater than 7.5 inches in ength and shooting ony short, ong or ong rife ammunition, carried as a side arm. GAME LANDS 2016/17 65

68 GAME LANDS In accordance with Code of Federa Reguations, Tite 36, Chapter III, Part 327, Section ; the possession of oaded firearms, ammunition, oaded projectie firing devices, bows and arrows, crossbows, or other weapons is prohibited on Butner-Fas of Neuse, Jordan, Kerr Scott, and Vance game ands uness: - in the possession of a Federa, state or oca aw enforcement officer; - being used for hunting or fishing, with devices being unoaded when transported to, from or between hunting and fishing sites; - being used at authorized shooting ranges; or - written permission has been received from the District Commander. Where prohibited, target shooting is defined as the discharge of a firearm for purposes other than hunting, trapping or sef-defense. Posted Zones on Game Lands Safety Zone unawfu to hunt or discharge a weapon. Faconry is aowed. Restricted Zone no entry without a permit. Temporary Restricted Zone no entry without a permit. Archery Zone bow-and-arrow hunting and faconry ony. On such areas, deer of either sex may be taken on a open days of any appicabe open deer season. Hunting with dogs prohibited. Restricted Firearms Zones unawfu to hunt with a centerfire rife. Scouting-ony Zone unawfu to discharge firearms or bow and arrow. Restricted Deer Hunting Zone use of dogs for taking deer prohibited without a permit. Day use ony Zone a pubic use prohibited between sunset and sunrise. Training or Hunting with Dogs Except for authorized fied trias, dogs may not be trained or aowed to run uneashed from Apri 1 through Aug. 15 on any game and ocated west of I-95 and from March 15 through June 15 east of I-95. On game ands west of I-95, dogs aso may not be trained or aowed to run uneashed during dayight hours on dates when specia hunts are schedued for the Disabed Sportsman Program. Addi - tiona restrictions appy to some bear sanctuaries and game ands. It is unawfu to train dogs or aow dogs to run uneashed on bear sanctuaries in and west of Madison, Buncombe, Henderson and Pok counties from March 1 to the Monday on or nearest Oct. 15. Bear Sanctuaries It is unawfu to take fera swine on bear sanctuaries, except during the bow season, backpowder season, deer gun season and any sma game season, but hunters are restricted to the weapons and manner of take ega for that particuar season. On bear sanctuaries, bear may not be taken and dogs may not be used to take fera swine. Dogs may not be used to pursue bear, except during permit hunts that aow hunting bear with dogs. Remova of Pants, Animas and Other Materias Ony the foowing pants, animas and materias may be possessed on or removed from game ands: Widife, birds or fish egay taken under a vaid hunting, trapping, fishing or faconry icense Sma amount of edibe pants or pant parts for persona con - sumption, except any pants on a state or federa protected ist. Insects, worms or other invertebrates coected as fish bait for persona use, except any on a state or federa protected ist. Any fish bait coected may not be sod. Sma amounts of anima parts, pant parts not removed from ive pants, dirt, rocks and water. These items may not be coected for commercia purposes or sae. Firewood for use whie camping on a game and. Litter and road ki animas, except when specificay prohibited. To possess or remove any other pants, animas and materias requires written permission. This incudes, but is not imited to, firewood to be taken off the game and, pine straw, ginseng, venus fy-trap, snakes, izards, turtes, frogs and saamanders. Other Restrictions Disabed sportsman binds are for use by those individuas who possess a Disabed Veteran or Totay Disabed License or a The Federa Aid in Widife Restoration Act, commony known as the Pittman-Robertson Widife Restoration Act, was signed by President Frankin D. Roosevet in The Federa Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act, commony known as the Dinge-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act, was passed in Combined, these acts make up the Widife and Sport Fish Restoration program. This program is administered by the U.S. Fish and Widife Service and funded by excise taxes on firearms, archery equipment, ammunition, fishing tacke, boats, and outboard motors sod to sportsmen and women. To date the Widife and Sport Fish Restoration program has provided over $17.5 biion to support fish and widife conservation in the United States, incuding over $381 miion to North Caroina. North Caroina Widife Restoration projects incude: Restoring white-taied deer, wid turkey, and river otter. Managing widife popuations statewide and habitat on 2 miion acres of state game ands. Providing technica guidance to pubic and private andowners to hep them manage widife. Training more than 18,000 students annuay in hunter education. North Caroina Sport Fish Restoration projects incude: Managing fish popuations in akes, rivers, and streams and protecting these aquatic habitats. Managing more than 1,100 mies of trout streams with pubic access. Offering free pubic fishing opportunities at more than 100 Pubic Fishing Areas and Community Fishing Program sites. Providing access to pubic waters at more than 200 Boating Access Areas. For more information on program accompishments in North Caroina, visit /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

69 Disabed Sportsman Hunt Certification, in addition to a vaid hunting icense and their com panions on a first-come basis during nonpermit, open hunting days, except for the Restricted Area of R. Wayne Baiey-Caswe Game Land. During permit hunts, the Commission wi desig nate use of disabed sportsman binds. Use of game ands for purposes other than hunting, trapping and fishing is subject to the contro of the andowners. It is unawfu to reease ANY bird or anima, except hunting dogs and raptors, on game ands without written authorization from the Widife Resources Commission. It is unawfu to hunt whie under the infuence of acoho or any narcotic drug. It is unawfu to itter or dispose of refuse, except in receptaces provided for the purpose. It is unawfu to obscure the sex or age of any bird or anima by mutiation of the carcass. Pacing bait on game ands is prohibited without written authorization. Game birds or game animas may not be taken with the aid of bait. It is unawfu to erect or to occupy for the purpose of hunting, any tree stand or patform attached by nais, screws, bots or wire to a tree on any game and designated herein. This prohibi tion sha not appy to ag-screw steps or portabe stands that are removed after use with no meta eft remaining in or attached to the tree. It is unawfu to camp on game ands, except on an area desig - nated by the andowner for camping, or to camp on those U.S. Forest Service ands that have been cosed by posted order of the U.S. Forest Service. See the individua game ands istings beginning on page 68 for further restrictions. Raccoon and opossum hunting may continue unti 7 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays on three-day-per-week game ands and unti midnight on Saturdays on a game ands. U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish & Widife Service and U.S. Corps of Engineers reguations prohibit permanent structures (incuding permanent duck binds and permanent deer stands) on a ands under their management. A permit is needed to enter Hunting Creek Swamp in Davie County. John s River Water fow Refuge in Burke County is cosed to hunting. From one-haf hour before sunrise unti one-haf hour after sunset, propery icensed hunters may take fera hogs on game ands during the open season for any game anima using any ega manner of take aowed during those open game seasons. Dogs may be used for hunting fera hogs ony on those game ands where the use of dogs is aowed for hunting deer or bear and ony during the open appicabe deer or bear season. Coyote hunting on game ands in Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Tyrre and Washington counties is imited to permit hunts administered through the Permit Hunting Opportunities Program. Esewhere on game ands, from one-haf hour before sunrise unti one-haf hour after sunset, coyotes may be taken by propery icensed hunters during any open season for taking game animas and game birds using weapons that are awfu for the open game anima or game bird seasons. From one-haf hour after sunset unti one-haf hour before sunrise, hunting fera hogs and coyotes on game ands is imited to permit hunts administered through the Permit Hunting Opportunities Program. Pubic nudity on any game and is prohibited. Trapping on Game Lands Trapping fur-bearing animas is permitted on game ands during the open seasons and in accordance with the trapping reguations, except on posted Safety, Temporary Restricted and Restricted zones and the reguated areas isted beow that are cosed to trapping: John s River Waterfow Refuge, Burke Co. Hunting Creek Swamp Waterfow Refuge, Davie Co. J. Robert Gordon Sandhis Fied Tria Area A permit is required to trap on any game and designated as a permit-ony area. Bait may not be used on the nationa forest ands bounded by the Bue Ridge Parkway on the south, U.S. 276 on the north and east, and N.C. 215 on the west. Trespassing on Game Lands Entry on game ands for purposes other than hunting, trapping and fishing is subject to the contro of the andowners. Youth Waterfow Days No specia permit wi be required for youth to hunt waterfow on any game and or game and impoundment, incuding permit-ony areas on those days officiay designated as Youth Waterfow Days, uness specified for an individua game and that waterfow hunting on Youth Waterfow Days is by permit ony. Waterfow Management Areas On those areas estabished by the Widife Resources Commission for either waterfow resto ration or waterfow resting and feeding, and posted as waterfow manage - ment areas, it is unawfu to hunt or harass waterfow. Fied-Tria Faciities Fied trias may be schedued on the J. Robert Gordon Sandhis Fied Tria Area and the Laurinburg Fox-Tria Faciity by appication in advance, accompanied by the appropriate faciity use fee. No person or group sha use these faciities without having obtained specific written approva from an authorized agent of the Widife Resources Commission. Shooting Ranges Commission-managed shooting ranges are avaiabe for the purpose of firearm marksmanship and deveop - ment of shooting skis. Days and hours of operation may vary and are posted at the entrance to each range. A shooting-range users sha abide by the game ands restrictions and hande fire - arms and archery equipment in a safe manner. They aso sha obey a reguations posted at the range. Additiona restrictions: No use of gass targets. No intentiona shooting into a target hoder or other permanent structure. No shooting at targets off the range. Currenty the Commission manages the foowing shooting ranges: Wayne E. Smith Shooting Range on Cod Mountain Game Land. Fintock Vaey Shooting Range on Uwharrie Game Land. John F. Lentz Hunter Education Compex on Sandhis Game Land. Caswe Shooting Range on R. Wayne Baiey-Caswe Game Land. Hoy Sheter Shooting Range on Hoy Sheter Game Land. Additiona pubic and private shooting ranges can be found at ncwidife.org/hunting/beforethehunt/shootingranges.aspx DISABLED ACCESS PROGRAM Disabed Access Permit A Disabed Access Permit aows persons with imited physica mobiity to operate vehices, incuding ATVs, on any Commission-maintained road open for vehicuar trave, those trais posted for vehicuar trave and on open-gated or ungated roads, otherwise cosed to vehicuar traffic on game ands isted in the Disabed Access Program and to have access to specia disabed hunting binds. It does not authorize operation of vehices on cosed roads on game ands not isted in the Disabed Access Program. The disabed hunter wi be issued a companion and vehice access card. One companion may accompany the disabed hunter, provided that person possesses the companion card. This permit is vaid as ong as the quaify - ing disabiity per sists. There is no fee associated with this permit. GAME LANDS 2016/17 67

70 GAME LANDS Refer to the Disabed Sportsman Information section on page 14 for quaification and appication information. NOTE: Disabed individuas, as defined under the Americans with Disabiities Act, may use a wheechair or other mobiity device designed for indoor pedestrian use on any area where foot trave is aowed on properties owned or controed by the Commission. Areas Invoved Vehicuar access under this permit is pro vided on the foowing game ands: (Additiona access may be provided on some U.S. Forest Service-owned game ands. Those areas are not isted beow, but detais may be obtained by contacting the oca ranger station for the district in which you wish to hunt.) Bertie Baden Lakes Butner-Fas of Neuse (waterfow bind for disabed hunters ony) R. Wayne Baiey Caswe Goose Creek (waterfow bind for disabed hunters ony) Hoy Sheter Lantern Acres Roanoke River Wetands Sandhis South Mountains Suggs Mi Pond Tiery Thurmond Chatham See current game and maps at ncwidife.org for detais and disabed access ocations. Currenty there is a waterfow bind for the disabed on the Spring Creek Impoundment of Goose Creek Game Land and on the Beaver Dam Impoundment of Butner-Fas of Neuse Game Land. A disabed access permit is required. On permitted days on Spring Creek and on the Beaver Dam Impoundment, users must appy through the Permit Hunting Opportunities Program. Disabed Sportsman Permit Hunt Program A of the hunts the Commission offers to the disabed sportsman require permits. Informa tion about quaifications required for these hunts and avaiabe disabed binds can be found at ncwidife.org/permithunt. EITHER-SEX SEASONS AND OTHER RULES APPLYING TO INDIVIDUAL GAME LANDS Each game and fas into one of three categories and is so designated in the individua game ands istings. A specia permit may be required for some species on any of these areas (appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt). The three designations are as foows: Six-day-per-week areas: Game ands on which any game may be taken during the open seasons. Three-day-per-week areas: Game ands on which any game may be hunted uness otherwise noted. Open days are Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year s and Martin Luther King Jr. days. These areas are cosed to hunt - ing on other days of the week, uness specificay opened under the individua game ands istings. Faconry may be practiced on Sundays. Permit-ony areas: Game ands on which a specia permit is required to hunt or trap. To appy for any specia permits in the istings beow, visit ncwidife.org/permithunt. Faconry on Game Lands: Within estabished hunting seasons and on open hunting days, faconry is aowed on Archery and Safety Zones in game ands. Acoa Game Land Davie, Davidson, Montgomery, Rowan and Stany counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Nov and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 in that portion in Montgomery County (moderate season); Nov. 19 Jan. 2 in that portion in Davie County and Nov. 12 Jan. 2 in that portion in Davidson, Rowan and Stany counties (maximum season). On the Lick Creek Tract, deer and bear hunting is archery ony. Aigator River Game Land Tyrre County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season) Bear may ony be taken on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during the November Bear Season and on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the second week of the December season. Angoa Bay Game Land Dupin and Pender counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Target shooting is prohibited. Bacheor Bay Game Land Bertie and Washington counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Bertie County Game Land Bertie County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). On the Johnson Landing Tract, discharge of centerfire rifes is prohibited. Baden Lakes State Forest Game Land Baden County Three-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Open days during Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Rifes arger than.22 caiber rimfire sha not be used. On the Singetary Tract, hunting deer and bear with dogs is prohibited. Turkey hunting on the Singetary Tract is by permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Youth-adut permit hunts are avaiabe on Turnbu Creek Educationa State Forest. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Camping is restricted to Sept. 1 Feb. 28 and March 31 May 14 in areas both designated and posted as camping areas. Discharge of centerfire rifes is prohibited. The use of dogs for pursuing or taking foxes is prohibited March 15 - Juy 15. Brinkeyvie Game Land Haifax County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Oct. 21 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate season). Horseback riding, incuding a equine species, is prohibited. Brunswick County Game Land Brunswick County Permit-ony area. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Hunting deer with dogs is prohibited. Buckhorn Game Land Orange County Permit-ony area. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Horseback riding, incuding a equine species, is prohibited. Buckridge Game Land Tyrre County Three-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Open days during Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season) Bear may ony be taken on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during the November Bear Season and on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the second week of the December Bear Season. Target shooting is prohibited. Buffao Cove Game Land Cadwe and Wikes counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Deer Season: Nov. 21 Dec. 10 in a portions of the game and /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

71 Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Dec. 10 (introductory season) in a portions of the game and. Backpowder Season: Oct. 3 Oct. 15 in a portions of the game and. Archery Season: Sept. 10 Oct. 1 and Oct. 17 Nov. 19 in a portions of the game and. Horseback riding is prohibited except on designated trais May 16 through Aug. 31, and a horseback riding is prohibited from Sept. 1 through May 15. This rue incudes a equine species. Buard and Branch Hunting Preserve Robeson County Three-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Oct. 26 and Dec. 21 Jan. 2 (moderate season). Butner-Fas of Neuse Game Land Durham, Granvie and Wake counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Nov and Dec. 27 Jan.2 in that portion in Durham and Granvie counties and Oct and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 in that portion in Wake County (moderate season). Waterfow may be taken ony on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur days, Christmas, Martin Luther King Jr. and New Year s days, and on opening and cosing days of the appicabe water - fow seasons. On the posted waterfow impoundments, a specia permit is required for a waterfow hunting after Nov. 1. Horseback riding, incuding a equine species, is prohibited. Camping is restricted to Sept. 1 Feb. 28 and March 31 May 14 in designated camping areas, except on the Mountains-to-Sea Trai Camping Area. Camping is aowed at any time on the Mountains-to-Sea Trai Camping Area, not to exceed a maximum stay of two consecutive nights, and campfires are prohibited. Turkey hunting is by permit ony (appy at ncwidife.org/ permithunt), except on those areas posted as Archery Zones. Target shooting is prohibited. The use of dogs for hunting deer is prohibited on that portion west of N.C. 50 and south of Fas Lake. Except whie hunting, bicyce riding is restricted to designated areas. Buxton Woods Game Land Dare County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Season: Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (conservative season) Target shooting is prohibited. Cape Fear River Wetands Game Land Pender and New Hanover counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Turkey hunting is by permit ony on the Roan Isand Tract. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) On the Canetuck Tract, hunting deer and bear with dogs is prohibited. Target shooting is prohibited. Carteret County Game Land Carteret County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Oct. 21 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate season) Dogs may not be used for hunting deer. R. Wayne Baiey-Caswe Game Land Caswe County Three-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Open days during Dec. 21 Jan. 2 (conservative season). Horseback riding is aowed ony during June, Juy and August and on Sundays during the remainder of the year, except during open turkey and deer seasons. Horseback riding is aowed ony on roads opened to vehicuar traffic and on those gated roads and trais that are posted for equestrian use. Participants age 16 or oder must obtain a game ands icense prior to engaging in horseback riding on this area. Camping is restricted to Sept. 1 Feb. 28 and March 31 May 14 in designated camping areas. The area posted with signs stating CURE Widife Game Lands, Specia Reguations Appy and encompassed by the foowing roads is cosed to a quai and woodcock hunting and a bird dog training: From Yanceyvie south on N.C. 62 to the inter - section of S.R. 1746, west on S.R to the intersection of S.R. 1156, south on S.R to the intersection of S.R. 1783, east on S.R to the intersection of N.C. 62, north on N.C. 62 to the intersection of S.R. 1736, east on S.R to the intersection of S.R. 1730, east on S.R to N.C. 86, north on N.C. 86 to N.C. 62. On the posted waterfow impoundments, a specia permit is required for a waterfow hunting after Nov. 1. Target shooting is prohibited except on the Caswe Shooting Range. Chatham Game Land Chatham County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Nov. 12 Nov. 18 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate season). Turkey hunting is by permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/ permithunt.) Horseback riding, incuding a equine species, is aowed ony during June, Juy and August and on Sundays during the remain - der of the year, except during open turkey and deer seasons. Target shooting is prohibited. Cherokee Game Land Ashe County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (conservative season). Chowan Game Land Chowan County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Chowan Swamp Game Land Bertie, Gates and Hertford counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Bear may ony be taken on the first Saturday, Monday and Tuesday during the November segment of the bear season and on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the second week of the December segment, except that on the portion of Chowan Swamp Game Land in Gates County east of Highway 158/13, south of Highway 158, west of Highway 32, and north of Catherine Creek and the Chowan River the bear season is Nov. 12 Nov. 19 and Dec. 12 Dec. 24. Camping is restricted to to Sept. 1 Feb. 29 and March 31 May 14 in areas both designated and posted as camping areas. Horseback riding is prohibited except during May 16 - Aug. 31 and on Sundays ony Sept. 1 - May 15 on those roads that are open to vehicuar traffic and those gated roads and trais posted for equestrian use. Cod Mountain Game Land Haywood County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Dec. 10 (introductory season) Horseback riding is prohibited except on designated trais May 16 Aug. 31, and a horseback riding is prohibited from Sept. 1 May 15. This rue incudes a equine species. GAME LANDS 2016/17 69

72 GAME LANDS Coumbus County Game Land Brunswick and Coumbus counties Three-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Croatan Game Land Carteret, Jones and Craven counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Waterfow may be taken ony on Tuesdays and Saturdays; on Thanksgiving, Christmas, NewYear s and Martin Luther King Jr. days; and on the opening and cosing of the appicabe water - fow seasons. On the first two open days of dove season, a permit is needed to hunt on posted areas. Hunting from Disabed Sportsmen binds on the Catfish Lake waterfow impoundment is by permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Currituck Banks Game Land Currituck County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season) Permanent waterfow binds in Currituck Sound adjacent to these game ands sha be hunted by permit ony after Nov. 1. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Licensed hunting guides may accompany the permitted individua or party, but may not use a firearm. The boundary of the game and sha extend five yards from the edge of the marsh or shoreine. Dogs sha be aowed ony for waterfow hunting by permitted hunters on the day of their hunt. No screws, nais or other objects penetrating the bark sha be used to attach a tree stand or bind to a tree. Dare Game Land Dare and Hyde counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (conservative season). No hunting on posted parts of bombing range. Seected roads may be cosed for miitary training. The use and training of dogs is prohibited from March 1 June 30. Bear hunting is by permit ony (appy at ncwidife.org/ permithunt) on the Bombing Range Bear Sanctuary. Dover Bay Game Land Craven County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season) DuPont State Forest Game Land Henderson and Transyvania counties Permit-ony area. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Training and the use of dogs is prohibited except during sched ued permit hunts. Ek Knob Game Land Watauga County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (conservative season). Embro Game Land Haifax and Warren counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate season). Horseback riding, incuding a equine species, is prohibited. Goose Creek Game Land Beaufort and Pamico counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Prior to Oct 1, waterfow may be taken ony on Tuesdays and Saturdays and on the opening and cosing days of the statewide waterfow seasons on the posted impoundments. Beginning on the first open waterfow season day in October and through the end of the waterfow season, waterfow hunting is by permit ony on posted waterfow impoundments. Hunting and vehicuar access on the Parker Farm Tract is restricted from Sept. 1 through Jan. 1 and Apri 1 May 15 to individuas TOMORROW S MEMORIES~ The Home from The Hunt campaign reminds everyone in the excitement of an outdoor adventure to be safe. Free hunter education courses are offered by the N.C. Widife Resources Commission in a 100 counties throughout the year. You earn about conservation, game management, widife identification, surviva and first aid. For course schedues and additiona information, go to or ca today /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

73 that possess a vaid hunting opportunity permit. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Camping is restricted to Sept. 1 Feb. 28 and March 31 May 14 in areas both designated and posted as camping areas. Green River Game Land Henderson and Pok counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Jan. 2, except that part in Henderson Co. where the season is Dec. 10 (introductory seasons). Horseback riding is prohibited. This rue incudes a equine species. Green Swamp Game Land Brunswick County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Gu Rock Game Land Hyde and Tyre counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). On posted waterfow impoundments, hunting of any species of widife is imited to Tuesdays and Saturdays; Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year s and Martin Luther King Jr. days; and opening and cosing days of the appicabe waterfow seasons. Bear may ony be taken Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during the November segment of the bear season and Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the second week of the Decem ber segment, except that portion of the game and designated as bear sanc - tuary. Bear hunting is prohibited on the bear sanctuary. Camping is restricted to Sept. 1 Feb. 28 and March 31 May 14 in areas both designated and posted as camping areas. Harris Game Land Chatham, Harnett and Wake counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Nov. 12 Nov. 18 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2, except those parts in Wake and Harnett counties where the season is Oct. 15 Oct. 21 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate seasons). Waterfow may be taken ony on Tuesdays, Fridays and Satur days; on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year s days; and on the opening and cosing days of the appicabe waterfow seasons. The use or construction of permanent hunting binds is prohibited. Turkey hunting is by permit ony (appy at ncwidife.org/ permithunt), except on those areas posted as Archery Zones. Target shooting is prohibited. Horseback riding is prohibited. Hoy Sheter Game Land Pender County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Open days during Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Waterfow hunting is aowed ony on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year s and Martin Luther King Jr. days; and on the opening and cosing days of the appicabe waterfow seasons. Camping is restricted to Sept. 1 Feb. 28 and March 31 May 14 in areas both designated and posted as camping areas. Dogs may be used for hunting deer and bear on Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year s days ony. On the portion of the game and that is north of the Bear Garden Road, west of Shaw Road to Baby Branch, east of the Northeast Cape Fear River, south of N.C. 53 and west of N.C. 50, deer hunt ing and bear hunting are by permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Other species may be hunted on this area ony during the norma open days for this game and. Hunting deer and bear with dogs on the Pender 4 and Greentree impound ment tracts is prohibited. Hunting and vehicuar access on the Pender 4 Tract is restricted from Sept. 1 to the ast day of February and Apri 1 to May 15 to individuas that possess vaid hunting opportunity permits. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Hunters who possess a Disabed Access Permit to operate a terrain vehices are aowed on and within 100 yards of trais designated for Disabed Sportsman Access. See the onine game and maps for designated trais. Target shooting is prohibited except on the Hoy Sheter Shooting Range. Geocaching is aowed ony on cosed days for taking bear, deer, turkey, and waterfow. Hyco Game Land Person County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Nov. 12 Nov. 18 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate season). Target shooting is prohibited. J. Morgan Futch Game Land Tyrre County Permit Ony Area. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Johns River Game Land Burke County Permit Ony Area. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) The use or construction of permanent hunting binds is prohibited. Jordan Game Land Durham, Chatham, Orange and Wake counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Nov. 12 Jan. 2, except that part in Wake Co. where the season is Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum seasons). Waterfow may be taken ony on Mondays, Wednesdays and Sat - urdays; on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year s days; and on the opening and cosing days of the appicabe waterfow seasons. Horseback riding, incuding a equine species, is aowed ony on those areas posted as American Tobacco Trai and other areas specificay posted for equestrian use. Uness otherwise posted, horseback riding is permitted on the American Tobacco Trai anytime the trai is open. On a other posted equestrian trais, horseback riding is imited to the months of June, Juy and August, and Sundays the remainder of the year except during open turkey and deer seasons. Participants age 16 and oder must obtain a game and icense prior to engaging in horseback riding on any area other than the American Tobacco Trai. Target shooting is prohibited. Turkey hunting is by permit ony (appy at ncwidife.org/ permithunt), except on those areas posted as Archery Zones. Except whie hunting, bicyce riding is restricted to designated areas. Juniper Creek Game Land Brunswick and Coumbus counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Camping is restricted to Sept. 1 Feb. 28 and March 31 May 14 in areas both designated and posted as camping areas. Kerr Scott Game Land Wikes County Six-day-per-week area. Either-Sex Deer Season: Nov. 19 Jan. 2 (maximum season) Use of centerfire rifes is prohibited. Deer may be taken by archery equipment ony except during the backpowder season. Tree stands may not be eft overnight and no screws, nais, or other objects may be used to aid in cimbing or to attach a tree stand or bind to a tree. Turkey hunting is archery ony. Lantern Acres Game Land Tyrre and Washington counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Turkey hunting is by permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/ permithunt.) Dogs may not be used to hunt deer on the Godey Tract. Waterfow hunting on posted waterfow impoundments is by permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) GAME LANDS 2016/17 71

74 GAME LANDS Lee Game Land Lee County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Nov. 12 Nov. 18 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate season). Target shooting is prohibited. Light Ground Pocosin Game Land Pamico County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Linwood Game Land Davidson County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Nov. 12 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Lower Fishing Creek Game Land Edgecombe and Haifax counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Oct. 21 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate season). Horseback riding, incuding a equine species, is prohibited. Dogs may not be used for hunting deer. Mayo Game Land Person County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Nov and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate season). Waterfow may be hunted ony on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; Christmas and New Year s days; and on opening and cosing days, of the appicabe waterfow seasons. Target shooting is prohibited. Mitche River Game Land Aeghany and Surry counties Three-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Open days during Dec. 21 Jan. 2 (conservative season). Horseback riding is prohibited except on designated trais. May 16 Aug. 31. A horseback riding is prohibited. Sept. 1 May 15. This rue incudes a equine species. Nantahaa Game Land Cherokee, Cay, Graham, Jackson, Macon, Swain and Transyvania counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Dec.10 in that portion in Transyvania County (introductory season). Needmore Game Land Macon and Swain counties Six-day-per-week area. Horseback riding is prohibited except on designated trais May 16 Aug. 31. A horseback riding is prohibited from Sept. 1 May 15. This rue appies to a equine species. On posted dove fieds, dove hunting on the opening day of dove season is by permit ony. Neuse River Game Land Craven County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season:Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season) New Lake Game Land Hyde and Tyrre counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Nichoson Creek Game Land Hoke County Three-day-per-week area. Gun Deer Season: Open days during Nov. 12 Dec. 10 Archery Season: Open days during Sept. 10 Oct. 28 Backpowder Season: Open days during Oct. 29 Nov. 9 Gun Either-Sex Season: Dec. 10 (introductory season) The use of dogs for hunting deer is prohibited. Turkey hunting is by permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/ permithunt.) Outdoor Adventures Begin with BOW The Becoming an Outdoors-Woman weekend workshop gives women 18 years and oder a chance to earn outdoor skis and experience the word of widife in a safe and encouraging environment. Choose from a variety of sessions taught by N.C. Widife Resources Commission staff and expert vounteers. For information and registration: ncwidife.org/bow bb.gien@ncwidife.org FISHING MOTORBOAT SKILLS RIFLE SHOTGUN PADDLE SPORTS WILDLIFE OBSERVATION SKILLS GAME AND OUTDOOR COOKING ARCHERY FLY-TYING AND FLY-FISHING STREAM ECOLOGY AND MORE JENNIFER ROWE / NCWRC /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

75 Swimming and interna combustion engines are prohibited at Lake Upchurch. Target shooting is prohibited. North River Game Land Camden and Currituck counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). The boundary of the game and sha extend five yards from the edge of the marsh or shoreine in Currituck County. Hunting on the posted waterfow impoundment is by permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Northwest River Marsh Game Land Currituck County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). The boundary of the game and sha extend five yards from the edge of the marsh or shoreine. Pee Dee River Game Land Anson, Montgomery, Richmond and Stany counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Nov. 12 Nov. 18 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2, except that part in Richmond Co. where the season is Oct. 15 Oct. 21 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate seasons). Use of centerfire rifes is prohibited in that portion in Anson and Richmond counties north of U.S. 74. Target shooting is prohibited. Horseback riding is aowed ony on roads open to vehicuar traffic and ony during the months of June, Juy and August, and Sundays the remainder of the year except during the open turkey and deer seasons. Perkins Game Land Davie County Three-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Jan. 2 (introductory season). Horseback riding is prohibited from November 1 through January 1. Pisgah Game Land Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cadwe, Haywood, Henderson, Madison, McDowe, Mitche, Transyvania, Watauga and Yancey counties Six-day-per week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Dec. 10, except that portion in Watauga County where the season is Jan. 2 (introductory seasons) Hunting raccoon, opossum and widcat on the Harmon Den and Sherwood Bear sanctuaries in Haywood County is aowed. Bear hunting on Mt. Mitche Bear and Danie Boone sanctuaries is by permit ony. Horseback riding, incuding a equine species, is prohibited on the Back Bear (McDowe County), Linvie River (Burke County), and Litte Taberock tracts (Avery, McDowe and Mitche counties). Pond Mountain Game Land Ashe County Six-day-per-week area. Deer and bear hunting is by permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/ permithunt.) Horseback riding, incuding a equine species, is prohibited except on designated trais and aowed ony from May 16 through August 31 and on Sundays ony from September 1 through October 31. A horseback riding is prohibited from November 1 through May 15. Pungo River Game Land Hyde County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Rhodes Pond Game Land Cumberand and Harnett counties Permit-ony area. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Swimming is prohibited. Roanoke Isand Marshes Game Land Dare County Permit-ony area. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Roanoke River Wetands Game Land Bertie, Haifax, Martin and Northampton counties Permit-ony area. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Vehices are prohibited on roads or trais, except those vehices operated on officia Widife Resources Commission business or by permit hoders. Camping is restricted to Sept. 1 Feb. 28 and March 31 May 14 in areas both designated and posted as camping areas. (Camping is aowed anytime within 100 yards of the Roanoke River.) Robeson Game Land Robeson County Three-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Open days during Oct. 15 Oct. 26 and Dec. 21 Jan. 2 (moderate season) Rockfish Creek Game Land Hoke County Three-day-per-week area. Gun Deer Season: Open days during Nov. 12 Dec. 10 Archery Season: Open days during Sept. 10 Oct. 28 Backpowder Season: Open days during Oct. 29 Nov. 9 Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Dec. 10 (introductory season) The use of dogs for hunting deer is prohibited. Turkey hunting is by permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/ permithunt.) Taking fox squirres is prohibited. Target shooting is prohibited. Rocky Run Game Land Onsow County Permit-ony area. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Sampson Game Land Sampson County Three-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Open days during Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Target shooting is prohibited. Sandhis Game Land Hoke, Moore, Richmond and Scotand counties Three-day-per-week area. Gun Deer Season: Open days during Nov. 12 Dec. 10, except on the fied-tria grounds, where the season is the open days during Nov. 14 Nov. 26. Archery Season: Open days during Sept. 10 Oct. 28 and Dec. 12 Jan. 2 except on the fied tria grounds where the archery season is open days during Sept.10 Oct. 28. Backpowder Season: Open days during Oct. 29 Nov. 9 and Dec. 12 Jan. 2 except on the fied tria grounds where the backpowder season is open days during Oct. 29 Nov. 12 (Deer of either sex may be taken on these days.) Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: By permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Squirre (fox and gray) hunting on the fied-tria grounds is aowed on open days during Nov. 14 Nov. 26. Opossum and raccoon hunting on the fied-tria grounds is aowed on open days during Oct. 17 Feb. 28. Rabbit hunting on the fied-tria grounds wi be aowed on open days during Nov. 12 Nov. 26. Dove hunting on the fied-tria grounds wi be prohibited from the third Sunday in September through the remainder of the hunting season. Waterfow hunting on the fied tria grounds is aowed on open days during any waterfow season. Except for the opossum, raccoon, rabbit, squirre, waterfow and deer seasons (incuding bow and arrow, backpowder and gun) specificay indicated above for the fied-tria grounds, the fied-tria grounds are CLOSED to a hunting during the period of Oct. 22 March 31. This restriction does not appy to permit hunts offered to disabed sportsman. GAME LANDS 2016/17 73

76 GAME LANDS Horseback riding is prohibited on the J. Robert Gordon Fied- Tria Area Oct. 22 March 31, except by peope riding in fied trias. In addition to the reguar open days, waterfow may be taken on the opening and cosing days of the appicabe waterfow seasons. Turkey hunting is by permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/ permithunt.) Dog training is prohibited on the fied tria grounds. Esewhere, dog training is restricted to Mondays, Wednesdays and Satur - days from Oct. 1 Apri 1. Swimming in akes is not permitted. Camping is restricted to Sept. 1 Feb. 28 and March 31 May 14 in designated camping areas. It is iega to hunt quai and woodcock and to train dogs on birds on areas posted with signs stating CURE Widife Game Lands, Specia Reguations Appy without a permit. A of these posted areas are on that part of the game and east of U.S. 1 in Richmond County or east of S.R and west of U.S. 15/501 in Scotand County. A of Sandhis Game Land in Moore County is ocated within the Sandhi Township (See Moore County oca aws for rife caiber restrictions and additiona restrictions.) Target shooting is prohibited except on the John F. Lentz Hunter Education Compex. Sandy Creek Game Land Frankin and Nash Counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Oct. 21 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate season). Horseback riding, incuding a equine species, is prohibited. Dogs may not be used for hunting deer. Sandy Mush Game Land Buncombe and Madison County Three-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Dec. 10 (introductory season). Horseback riding is prohibited except on designated trais May 16 Aug. 31, and a horseback riding is prohibited from Sept. 1 May 15. This rue incudes a equine species. Dogs may ony be trained on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays and ony during that time period when dog training is aowed on game ands. Dove hunting is by permit ony for the first four open days of the dove season. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Second Creek Game Land Rowan County Permit-ony area. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Shocco Creek Game Land Frankin, Haifax, Nash and Warren counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Oct. 21 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate season). Horseback riding, incuding a equine species, is prohibited. South Mountains Game Land Burke, Ceveand, McDowe and Rutherford counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Deer Season: Nov. 21 Dec. 10 in a portions of the game and. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Dec. 10 (introductory season) in a portions of the game and. Backpowder Season: Oct. 3 Oct. 15 in a portions of the game and. Archery Season: Sept. 10 Oct. 2 and Oct. 17 Nov. 19 in a portions of the game and. Horseback riding is prohibited, except on designated trais May 16 Aug. 31, and a horseback riding is prohibited from Sept. 1 May 15. This rue incudes a equine species. That part of South Mountains Game Land in Ceveand, McDowe and Rutherford counties is cosed to a grouse, quai and woodcock hunting and a bird dog training. Stones Creek Game Land Onsow County Six day-per-week area. Swimming in a akes is prohibited. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Waterfow may be taken ony on Tuesdays and Saturdays; on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year s and Martin Luther King Jr. days; and on the opening and cosing days of the statewide waterfow season. Dogs may be used for hunting deer on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays ony. Target shooting is prohibited. Geocaching is aowed ony on cosed days for taking bear, deer, turkey, and waterfow. Suggs Mi Pond Game Land Cumberand and Baden counties Permit-ony area. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Camping is restricted to Sept. 1 Feb. 28 and March 31 May 14 in areas both designated and posted as camping areas. During schedued permit hunts, ony hunters and trappers with permits may enter the game and, EXCEPT the pubic may use Campground Road to access the pond at the dam. Sutton Lake Game Land Brunswick and New Hanover counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (conservative season). Target shooting is prohibited. Discharge of centerfire rifes is prohibited. Tar River Game Land Edgecombe County Permit-ony area. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Texas Pantation Game Land Tyrre County Permit-ony area. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.)º Three Top Mountain Game Land Ashe County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (conservative season). Horseback riding is prohibited. This incudes a equine species. Thurmond Chatham Game Land Aeghany and Wikes counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Nov. 19 Nov. 25 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate season). Horseback riding is prohibited except on designated trais May 16 Aug. 31, and a horseback riding is prohibited from Sept. 1 May 15. This rue incudes a equine species. Partici pants age 16 or oder must obtain a game ands icense prior to horseback riding on this area. The maximum period of consecutive overnight camping at any designated campground is 14 days within any 30-day period from May 1 Aug. 31. After 14 consecutive days of camping, a persona beongings must be removed from the game and. Tiery Game Land Haifax County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Oct. 21 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate season). Horseback riding, incuding a equine species, is prohibited. Dogs may not be used for hunting deer. Turkey hunting is by permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/ permithunt.) Toxaway Game Land Jackson and Transyvania counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Dec. 10 (introductory season). Horseback riding is prohibited, except on designated trais May 16 Aug. 31, and a horseback riding is prohibited from Sept. 1 May 15. This rue incudes a equine species /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

77 Uwharrie Game Land Davidson, Montgomery and Randoph counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Nov. 12 Nov. 18 and Dec. 27 Jan. 2 (moderate season). On the posted waterfow impoundment, waterfow may be taken ony on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays; on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year s and Martin Luther King Jr. days; and on the opening and cosing days of the appicabe waterfow seasons. Vance Game Land Vance County Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). The use of dogs, centerfire rifes and handguns for hunting deer is prohibited on the Nutbush Peninsua Tract. Van Swamp Game Land Beaufort and Washington counties Six-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Bear may ony be taken on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the November Bear Season and Monday, Tuesday and Wednes - day of the second week of the December Bear Season. Whiteha Pantation Game Land Baden County Permit-ony area. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Camping is restricted to Sept. 1 Feb. 28 and March 31 May 14 in areas both designated and posted as camping areas. White Oak River Game Land Onsow County Three-day-per-week area. Gun Either-Sex Deer Season: Open days during Oct. 15 Jan. 2 (maximum season). Prior to Oct. 1, waterfow may be taken ony on Tuesdays and Satur days; and on the open ing and cosing days of the statewide water fow hunting seasons on the posted impoundments. Beginning on the first open waterfow season day in October and through the end of the waterfow season, waterfow hunting is by permit ony on posted waterfow impoundments. Waterfow hunting on the Huggins and Morton tracts is by permit ony for the entire waterfow season. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) A hunting opportunity permit is needed to access Hargett Avenue and Soan Farm Road. On the Huggins and Morton tracts, dogs may not be used to hunt deer, there is no discharge of centerfire rifes aowed, AND hunting is by permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/permithunt.) Turkey hunting is by permit ony. (Appy at ncwidife.org/ permithunt.) GAME LANDS WILDLIFE Juy August 2013 $2.50 i n n o r t h c a r o i n a WILDLIFE September October 2014 $2.50 i n n o r t h c a r o i n a If you ove the outdoors then you re going to ove Widife in North Caroina. Each issue is fied with artices and photographs focusing on fishing, hunting, conservation and other popuar activities in our great state. Subscribe now. WILDLIFE Apri 2011 $2.50 n n o r t h c a r o i n a WILDLIFE January February 2012 $2.50 i n n o r t h c a r o i n a WILDLIFE May June 2013 $2.50 i n n o r t h c a r o i n a WILDLIFE Juy August 2014 $2.50 i n n o r t h c a r o i n a WILDLIFE May June 2014 $2.50 i n n o r t h c a r o i n a 8 issues for $12 a year ncwidife.org 2016/17 75

78 LOCAL LAWS Loca Laws Some oca county-by-county egisation aso pertains to hunting, inand fishing and trapping activities in North Caroina. Foow ing is a county-by-county isting of acts that might not vioate the genera aws and reguations, but that are prohib ited by oca egisation passed by the Genera Assemby. These aws do not refect actions taken by the Genera Assemby after pubication of this document. ATTENTION FOX HUNTERS AND TRAPPERS Fox hunting and trapping seasons, bag imits and restrictions vary by county in North Caroina. Some counties do not aow fox hunting or trapping at a, some aow ony hunting. Before taking a fox, sportsmen shoud read the aw for that county in the Fox Seasons Hunting and Trapping Laws pubication avaiabe at ncwidife.org/hunting/lawssafety.aspx (cick on Fox Harvest Season dates) or by caing The foowing is unawfu in the counties indicated: HUNTING AND TRAPPING Aamance Hunt any widife with a firearm from the right-of-way of a pubic road. Hunt a deer or fox by use of dogs at any time. NOTE: Entrance to private ands to hunt is reguated by oca ordinance. Aexander Hunt, take or ki or attempt to hunt, take or ki any anima or bird on or from the right-of-way of any pubic road. Aeghany Discharge a firearm from, on or across a pubic road without written permission from adjoining andowners. Take any game or nongame anima or bird in Sam Brown Park. Anson Unawfu to hunt on another s and without having, on the person, written permission signed and dated by the owner, essee, or cub president (if appicabe). Permission is good for one year uness otherwise stated. During the gun deer season, aowing a dog under one s ownership, possession, or contro to run upon or across another s and constitutes hunting thereon. Hunt on, from or across any pubic road. Hunt deer with dogs; except that dogs may be used to hunt deer during the ast five weeks of the Gun Deer Season east of N.C This is cacuated by counting back five weeks from the ast day of the gun season. (Note: If the gun deer season ends on Jan. 1, this season wi be Nov. 28 Jan. 1. If the gun deer season ends on Jan. 2, this season wi be Nov. 29 Jan. 2) Hunt deer with dogs uness the dog has a coar with owner s identification. Import and reease a fox. Ashe Hunt with a oaded gun or other etha weapon from the rightof-way of a state-maintained road, or discharge a gun or etha weapon across any such road. Exceed a season bag imit of 20 raccoons. Avery Take any widife, except bobcats, on Grandfather Mountain above the Yonahossee Road (U.S. 221) on one side, or 4,000 feet eevation on the other. Beaufort Hunt migratory widfow north of the Pamico River channe between Broad Creek and Washington City Limits /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED. To discharge, or attempt to discharge, a firearm or bow and arrow, from, on, or across the roadway or right-of-way of any pubic road. Bertie Hunt, take or ki any wid anima or wid bird, or attempt to hunt, take or ki any wid anima or wid bird, with the use of a firearm or bow and arrow from, on, across or over the roadway or right-of-way of any pubic road, street or highway. Discharge a firearm or bow and arrow from, on, across, or over the roadway of any pubic road, street, or highway, or to possess a firearm or bow and arrow outside the passenger compartment of a vehice whie on the roadway or right-of-way. To hunt, fish, or trap on the and of another without the written permission of the andowner or the andowner s essee. Written permission sha contain compete contact information for the andowner or the andowner s essee. To take deer from any vesse in the Roanoke River, or its tributaries, except for those portions of the river and its tributaries that are adjacent to the border with Washington County whether the vesse is under power or not. Baden Hunt deer with the aid of a boat or foating device on the Cape Fear River or its tributaries. Possess a firearm aboard a motor-propeed vesse on the Cape Fear River during open deer season. Hunt any game from a pubic road adjoining posted and without having in possession written permission of the owner or essee. Hunt, take or ki any bird or anima or to attempt to hunt, take or ki any bird or anima on property adjacent to Baden Lakes State Forest without written permission of the owner or essee. Hunt, take or ki any bird or anima or attempt to hunt, take or ki any bird or anima on, from or across the right-of-way of any pubic road adjacent to property adjacent to Baden Lakes State Forest without written permission of the owner or essee. Brunswick Set or possess a trap or snare on another s and not under written ease. Set a eghod stee trap between March 1 and Jan. 1 or the ast day of the deer-hunting season, whichever is ater. Hunt from the right-of-way of a pubic road, except by the owner or essee of the abutting and or by a person with the permission of such owner or essee. Buncombe Hunt deer on or from the right-of-way of I-26 or I-40. Burke Hunt from the right-of-way of pubic roads any bird or anima except bear, without permission of the owner or essee of the adjacent and. Cabarrus Take deer with a centerfire rife, except from a permanent or por tabe stationary stand at east nine feet above ground eve and with the written permission of the andowner or essee in one s possession. Hunt, take or ki with the use of firearms any bird or game anima from, on or across the right-of-way of any numbered highway. Discharge a centerfire rife on the property of another without having in one s possession the written permission of the andowner or essee. Cadwe Take any widife, except bobcats, on Grandfather Mountain above the Yonahossee Road (U.S. 221). Hunt from the right-of-way of pubic roads any bird or anima except bear, without written permission of the owner or essee

79 of the adjacent and. Bear and boar may be hunted from any unpaved road.. Camden. Hunt deer with a rife, except from a stand eight feet high ocated on and owned or eased by the hunter or on another s and with the owner s permission. Set a Conibear -type 330 or 220 trap or a No. 2 eghod stee trap, except in water where beaver or otter may be awfuy taken. Hunt from the right-of-way of S.R or of S.R from the county ine to S.R Hunt or discharge a firearm from, on or across S.R To discharge or cause to be discharged any firearm within onehaf mie of any pubic or private schoo, toward any pubic or private schoo, or to cause any projectie discharged from a firearm to enter any pubic or private schoo grounds for any reason. Carteret Hunt deer from a pubic road adjoining ands of others without written permission of the owners or essees. Set a stee trap or Conibear -type trap, or take an anima therefrom, on another s and without a written ease authorizing trapping. Take migratory waterfow within 500 yards of another s perma - nent hunting ocation without permission of the andhoder upon whose and the waterfow is taken. Caswe Hunt deer from the surface or right-of-way of a pubic road. It is unawfu for a person to take widife or attempt to take widife on the and of another, or fish on the and of another, without having on one s person whie hunting or fishing the written permission, signed and dated for the current hunting and fishing season. It is unawfu for a person to take widife or attempt to take widife whie under the infuence of an impairing substance. Catawba Hunt, take or ki or attempt to hunt, take or ki any anima or bird on or from the right-of-way of any pubic road. Chatham Hunt with a firearm from the surface or right-of-way of a pubic road. Hunt with a firearm or bow and arrow or possess same, except with express written permission, dated within the previous 12 months, of the andowner or essee. Permit a minor under 16 to possess a firearm, uness the chid is under the supervision of parents or guardian. Possess a oaded firearm on the and of another whie under the infuence of an impairing substance. Cherokee To take or ki any wid anima or wid bird with the use of a fire - arm or to discharge a firearm from, on, or across the right-of-way of a pubic road, street, highway or other pubic vehicuar area. No person sha intentionay shine a ight on or in search of any wid anima from the right-of-way of any pubic road, street, highway or pubic vehicuar area whether from a motor vehice, or by other means, between the hours of one-haf hour after sunset unti one-haf hour before sunrise. Chowan Hunt waterfow on N.C. 32 or on any road south thereof between the Abemare Sound bridge and the Edenton City Limits. Take a bird or anima within Arrowhead Beach subdivision, Cape Coony subdivision or Chowan Beach subdivision. Hunt deer, except by sti hunting, south of U.S. 17 and U.S. 17 Business and east of a ine from the intersection of U.S. 17 Business and the western city imits of Edenton due south to Abemare Sound. Hunt on the and of another without written permission of owner or essee; permission to be dated within one year. Hunt with or possess a centerfire rife on the and of another or discharge same on, over or across another s and without having on one s person, written permission dated within one year. Hunt with or discharge a firearm or bow and arrow from, to or across any state-maintained road or right-of-way. To hunt with a centerfire rife, uness the barre of the rife is at east eight feet above ground eve. Cay To take or ki any wid anima or wid bird with the use of a fire - arm or to discharge a firearm from, on, or across the right-of-way of a pubic road, street, highway or other pubic vehicuar area. Ceveand Hunt from a pubic road right-of-way. Coumbus Set a stee trap between March 1 Jan. 1. Hunt, take or ki any wid anima or wid bird with a firearm on, from or across the right-of-way of any pubic road or highway without obtaining written permission of the owner or essee of the and abutting the road or the and across which the weapon is being discharged. Craven Uness a person owns or possesses a easehod, it is unawfu to hunt, take, ki or to shoot from, on, or across a road right-ofway on S.R. 1611, S.R. 1613, S.R. 1614, S.R. 1615, S.R. 1617, S.R or on S.R from Washington Post Road to N.C. 55. Hunt on or from a pubic road within an area posted against such by the Widife Resources Commission. Hunt on and within 100 yards of Trent River between the U.S. 70 bridge and a straight ine from Haywards Creek to Ready Branch. Hunt on and within 100 yards of Brices Creek between Trent River and the S.R bridge. Hunt from or shoot across S.R (Broad Creek Road) east of N.C. 55 to its terminus near Broad Creek. Hunt on or from N.C. 306, S.R. 1004, U.S. 70 from S.R to.6 mie east, or S.R from S.R to.6 mie south. Take any anima or bird on or from the right-of-way of S.R Hunt, take or ki any anima or bird on or from the right-of-way of S.R from S.R to the U.S. Forestry Service boundary. Hunt, take or ki any bird or anima on, from or across the right-of-way of S.R from its intersection with N.C. 55 to the intersection of S.R Hunt, take or ki any bird or anima on, from or across the right-of-ways of S.R. 1230, S.R and S.R Uness a person owns or possesses a easehod, it is unawfu to hunt, take or ki any anima or bird on or from the right-of-way of S.R. 1633, known as Brown Farm Road, S.R. 1637, known as Aigator Road, and state roads 1638 and 1639 known as Mau Swamp Road. Hunt, take or ki any wid anima or wid bird on, from or across the right-of-way of S.R Hunt, take or ki any wid anima or bird on or from the rightof-way of S.R from Riverside Church north to S.R Hunt, take or ki any wid anima or bird on or from the rightof-way of S.R from its intersection with S.R west to the Pitt County ine. Uness a person owns or possesses a easehod interest in the rea property adjacent to the portion of the road on which the person is ocated, it is unawfu for that person to discharge a firearm from, on or across the right-of-way of S.R from Adams Creek Road to the end of the state-maintained portion of the road. 2016/17 77 LOCAL LAWS

80 LOCAL LAWS Cumberand Set a stee-jaw eghod trap on another person s and, except for beaver or muskrat on ands of one with whom the trapper has a contract for trapping. Hunt with a firearm from or on a pubic road or the right-of-way thereof. Currituck NOTE: The Popar Branch Township on the Outer Banks is incuded within the Maximum Either-Sex Season for Currituck County. During the Reguar Gun Deer Season in that portion of Popar Branch Township on the Outer Banks, there is an open season for hunting or taking deer of either sex using ony shotguns, bow and arrow, and backpowder firearms. The Eastern Deer Season dates and a restrictions that appy to the Bow-and-Arrow and Backpowder seasons in Currituck County aso appy to the Popar Branch Township. The U.S. Fish & Widife Service Swan Isand and Monkey Isand Refuge areas are aso incuded here; however, the refuges are currenty cosed by federa rue; contact Mackay Isand Nationa Widife Refuge regarding specia refuge reguations. Hunt waterfow within 500 yards of another s icensed bind. NOTE: A Currituck Game Commission License is not required for temporary waterfow binds on game ands. However, unicensed temporary binds on game ands in this county sha not be hunted if a icensed foat bind is estabished within 500 yards of the unicensed bind before game and hunters have occupied the bind. Likewise, icensed foat-bind hunters sha not estabish a foat-bind position within 500 yards of an unicensed game and bind if game and hunters have occupied the bind first. Unicensed foat binds on game ands must be used within five yards of the game ands shoreine and sha not be estabished within 500 yards of a icensed point, bush or foat bind. Licensed foat-bind hunters sha not estabish a foatbind position within 500 yards of an estabished game and foat-bind position if the game and hunters have estabished the game and foat-bind position first. Hunt with a firearm from the right-of-way of S.R. 1140, S.R. 1218, S.R. 1227, S.R. 1229, S.R. 1248, S.R. 1249, S.R. 1250, S.R. 1251, S.R. 1252, S.R or of U.S. 168 north of Moyock Creek. For more information on the Currituck Game Commission s aws, rues and waterfow bind icenses, pease visit or ca NOTE: Dare and Currituck counties require icensing of waterfow binds, and certain restrictions appy to hunting waterfow in these two counties. For more information, contact: Dare County Game and Widife Commission, P. O. Box 1000, Manteo, NC Dare Chase deer with dogs, or permit a dog to chase deer, between March 1 and June 30, except for the mainand and Durant Isand. Hunt transitory waterfow from an unicensed bind, except on or within five yards of the shoreine of game ands. Use any trap that has a jaw spread that exceeds 7½ inches unti after Jan. 2 of each year or the ast day of deer hunting season, whichever is ater. The Dare County Game and Widife Commission has recenty updated its reguations regarding waterfow binds. For more information on the Dare County Game and Widife Commis sion s aws, rues and waterfow bind icenses, ca or visit or ncwidife.org. Davidson Hunt, fish or trap on and of another without permission. NOTE: Discharge of firearms or peet guns from right-of-way of pubic roads is reguated by oca ordinance. Hunt, take or ki a wid bird or wid anima with a firearm or discharge a firearm from, on or across the right-of-way of any numbered state-maintained road without written permission of the adjoining andowner. Davie Import and reease a fox. Dupin For information concerning hunting from the roadway in Dupin County, contact the county attorney. Durham Discharge a firearm in taking game animas from the right-ofway of a pubic road adjoining posted and, without permission of the owner or person in charge of such and. Disposa of Deer Carcasses Disposing of deer or any other anima remains on roadsides, waterways or on property (without permission or where restricted) is iega in North Caroina. Irresponsibe dumping of deer carcasses sends the wrong image of a great sport, can spread disease, and coud resut in misdemeanor and feony charges. Dispose of game remnants in a prompt and responsibe manner. Where permissibe, bury remains at east two feet deep. Contact your area andfi or soid waste management provider for oca poicies and more information. Be a responsibe and ethica hunter /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

81 Discharge a centerfire rife on another s and, or on or across such and from a pubic road, without having in possession written permission of the owner or essee. Take deer with dogs. Hunt deer from a pubic road. Hunt any widife with a firearm from a pubic road. Edgecombe Hunt, take or transport deer from or with the aid of any boat or foating device on that portion of the Tar River from S.R to N.C. 33. Hunt with a firearm from the right-of-way of a pubic road. Hunt or transport game, except migratory waterfow, from or by a boat or foating device on Swift Creek. Hunt on the and of another without having on one s person whie hunting the written permission, signed and dated for the current hunting season, of the andowner or essee, or the andowner s or essee s designee. (Effective Oct. 1, 2009) Hunt from any vesse in the Tar River from Springfied Road to the Dunbar Bridge, whether the vesse is under power or not, except that a vesse may be used for transportation to and from otherwise awfu hunting stands upon ands owned or eased by a person or upon which a person has written permission to hunt. Frankin Hunt deer with a rife on another s and, or from the right-ofway of a pubic road adjoining such and, without written permis sion from the owner to use a rife. Hunt game from the right-of-way of any pubic road in that part of the county bounded on the north beginning at the Tar River at the Granvie County ine east to U.S. 1, then south aong U.S. 1 to the intersection of N.C. 56, then east aong N.C. 56 to the intersection of U.S. 401, then north aong U.S. 401 to the inter - section of N.C. 39, then south aong N.C. 39 to the intersection of N.C. 98, then east aong N.C. 98 to the Nash County ine. In a other portions of the county to hunt game from the rightof-way of any pubic road, without written permission of the owners of the ands abutting that road. Gaston Hunt, take or ki with a firearm or other deady weapon, any wid anima or wid bird from or across the right-of-way of any pubic road, street or highway. Gates Take deer with the aid of a boat or foating device, in or within 100 yards of the Chowan River, except in creeks and tributaries. Hunt on a pubic road adjoining posted and without prior written permission of the owner or essee. Hunt with or discharge a centerfire rife from, on or across a state-maintained road. Hunt with or possess a centerfire rife on another s and without written permission of the owner or essee. Hunt with, or possess a firearm, bow and arrow, or dog on another s and without permission of the owner or essee. Take any game or furbearer by trapping on another person s and between the end of trapping season and Jan. 2. Hunt with or possess a centerfire rife or pisto in that part bor - dered to the north by U.S. 158, to the west by S.R. 1403/1400, to the south by S.R and to the east by N.C. 32. It is aso unawfu for any person to discharge or cause to be discharged a centerfire rife or pisto toward Merchants Mi Pond State Park, or to cause any projectie to enter the park property for any reason. Granvie Hunt deer from the right-of-way of a pubic road. Hunt or possess a firearm or bow and arrow, without acquiring an entry permit, before entering on registered ands or remain - ing on an abutting portion of highway. Reease a dog or dogs onto the property of another for the purpose of hunting deer without the written consent of the andowner or essee. Greene Hunt deer with a rife, except from a position eevated at east eight feet above the ground and not affixed to a motor vehice. Hunt, take or ki any wid anima or game bird on the posted ands of another without having on one s person the written permission of the owner or essee dated within the current hunting season. Hunt, take, or ki widife from, on or across a pubic roadway whie having a firearm or bow and arrow in the persons possession. Guiford Hunt an anima with a firearm from a pubic road. Haifax Take deer with the aid of a boat or foating device in Roanoke River between U.S. 17 and U.S.301. Hunt with a firearm from the right-of-way of a pubic road. Discharge a firearm on or across a pubic road. Harnett Hunt, take or ki with a firearm or other deady weapon any wid anima or wid bird on, from or across the right-of-way of any pubic road, street, highway or thoroughfare. Use a centerfire rife in hunting on the and of another without written permission dated within 12 months and carried on one s person. Haywood Discharge of a firearm from, on or across the right-of-way of any pubic road without written permission from the owner of the abutting ands. Henderson Hunt or discharge a firearm on or from the right-of-way of any state road west of U.S Hertford Take deer with the aid of a boat or foating device in or within 100 yards of the Chowan River, except in creeks and tributaries. Discharge a centerfire rife or any rife arger than.22-caiber on or from the right-of-way of a pubic road, street or highway. Hunt any wid anima or wid bird with the use of a firearm, from, on, across or over the roadway or right-of-way of any pubic road, street or highway. Hunt with or possess a centerfire rife on another s and without written permission of the owner or essee. Possess a firearm aboard a motor-propeed vesse (except an outboard with the motor removed and stored) on Meherrin River between the Virginia state ine and Murfreesboro city imit during the open deer season. Hoke Hunt with or discharge a firearm from, onto or across a primary highway. Hunt with or discharge a firearm from, onto or across a second - ary road without having in possession written permission of the owner or essee to hunt on abutting and. Hunt with a rife arger than.22-caiber or capabe of firing.22 centerfire, uness positioned at east 10 feet above the ground. Hunt with a gun or dog on the and of another without written permission of the owner or essee dated within one year. Hyde Hunt game animas with dogs, uness accompanied by a icensed hunting guide or with a permit from the owner of the and. Hunt migratory waterfow from a pubic road. Hunt with a rife from a pubic road. 2016/17 79 LOCAL LAWS

82 LOCAL LAWS Hunt with guns or dogs or to hunt with a bow and arrow or crossbow upon the ands of another without permis sion of the owner or essee. Irede Hunt, any anima or bird on or from the right-of-way of any pubic road. Hunt, fish or trap on and of another without written permission. Jackson Unawfu to ki any wid anima or wid bird with the use of a firearm or to discharge a firearm from, on, or across the right-ofway of a state-maintained road, street or highway. Unawfu to shine a ight intentionay upon a deer or in search of deer between ½ hour after sunset and ½ hour before sunrise. Johnston Hunt or fish on the and of another without having on one s person the written permission, signed and dated for the current hunting or fishing season, of the andowner or essee. Take widife or attempt to take widife on the and of another whie under the infuence of an impairing substance. Hunt with a oaded firearm on a state-maintained road. Discharge a firearm on or across a state-maintained road. Hunt deer with dogs or aow a dog to chase deer. Hunt deer with a rife on another s and or on an adjoining pubic road without written permission of the owner. Jones Hunt, with firearms, any anima or bird on, or from, or across the right-of-way of any paved pubic road or highway. Lee Hunt with any weapon whie on the and of another without written permission dated within one year. Hunt with any weapon, any wid anima or bird, or discharge a firearm on, from or across the right-of-way of any pubic road. Lenoir Hunt with a firearm on or discharge a firearm on or across S.R between U.S. 70 and N.C. 55. Reease hunting dogs onto posted and without written consent of the owner. Hunt on or from the right-of-way of a pubic road. Macon Hunt, take or ki white-taied deer from, on or across the rightof-way of any pubic road, street or highway. Madison Hunt from a pubic road right-of-way. Martin It is unawfu to hunt with or discharge a firearm on, from, or across the right-of-way of any highway or pubic road. It is unawfu to possess a oaded firearm outside the passenger compartment of a vehice whie on the roadway or highway right-of-way, uness the person is the owner or essee of the and abutting the right-of-way or has on his person the written permission of the owner or essee of the and abutting the rightof-way to hunt the and, dated within the ast 12 months, or the person has a conceaed carry permit and is ony carrying a oaded, conceaed weapon. Discharge a rife of greater than.22-caiber, except from an eevated position in which the rife is a minimum of eight feet above the ground. To take deer from any vesse in the Roanoke River, or its tributaries, except for those portions of the river and its tributaries that are adjacent to the border with Washington County whether the vesse is under power or not. McDowe Discharge a firearm from the right-of-way of a state-numbered road for the purpose of taking big game animas. This does not appy to those portions aong N.C. 105 bordered on both sides by game ands. Meckenburg Hunt deer with any rife, except that a backpowder rife may be used during the primitive-weapons season. Hunt with a firearm from a pubic road or highway right-of-way. Mitche /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED. Hunt, take or ki any wid bird or wid anima except bear or boar with a firearm from, on or across a pubic road right-of-way. Moore In Sandhi and Minera Springs townships: (1) hunt any game anima on another s and without possession of written per - mission of the owner or essee; (2) hunt with a rife of greater than.22 rimfire caiber or capabe of firing.22 centerfire ammunition (ie..223, ,.222 etc are not ega firearms under this aw), except that a backpowder rife may be used when positioned at east eight feet above the ground. Pease refer to township maps for Moore County on County GIS website. Shine a ight on deer between 30 minutes after sunset and 30 minutes before sunrise. Hunt deer on the and of another without written permission dated within one year. Hunt, take or ki deer on, from or across a right-of-way of any pubic road. Hunt deer with dogs uness each dog bears a coar, tag or other identification with the owner s fu name and address. Nash Take migratory waterfow on, from or over the Rocky Mount Tar River Reservoir or within 500 yards thereof, except within Zone E with permission of the affected andowner and subject to the rues and reguations of the City of Rocky Mount. See rockymountnc.gov/parks/hunting.htm for more detai. Discharge a firearm from, onto or across a pubic road. Hunt deer with a rife, except from a stand at east six feet above the ground. Hunt or discharge a rife on or across the right-of-way of any road. Hunt on the and of another without written permission from the owner or essee. New Hanover Hunt a fox with dogs in Federa Point township south of the Intracoasta Waterway. Northampton Take deer with the aid of a boat in or within 100 yards of the Roanoke River beow U.S Hunt, take or ki any wid anima or wid bird with a firearm on, from or across the right-of-way of any pubic road or highway. Discharge a rife arger than.22-caiber on another s and or from the right-of-way of a pubic road across such and without written permission of the owner or essee and uness positioned at east eight feet above the ground. Possess a firearm on a motor-propeed vesse (except an out - board with the motor removed and stored) on Meherrin River during the open deer season. Onsow Hunt any wid anima or bird from the right-of-way of any pubic road without written permission of the owner or essee of the and that abuts the road. Orange Hunt deer from a pubic road. Hunt with firearms from the right-of-way of a pubic road. Hunt or fish on the and of another without having on one s

83 person, written permission, signed and dated for the current hunting season, by the andowner or essee. Unawfu to hunt with firearms by persons under the infuence of acoho or other impairing substances. Pamico Take migratory waterfow within 500 yards of another s perma - nent hunting ocation without permission of the andhoder upon whose and the waterfow is taken. Hunt bear with dogs. Take any wid anima or wid bird from or across the right-ofway of N.C. 55 and N.C Pasquotank. Use a firearm careessy and heedessy, so as to endanger or be ikey to endanger any person or property, or any discharge of a firearm that resuts in a projectie crossing the property of another person without their permission. Discharge a centerfire rife on another s and, or on or across such and from a pubic road, without having in possession written permission of the owner or essee. To have possession of a oaded shotgun or centerfire rife whie on the right-of-way of any pubic road or highway whie outside the confines of the passenger area of a vehice, without the written permission of the owner or essee of the and that abuts the road or highway. To have possession of a oaded shotgun or centerfire rife whie on the traveed surface of any pubic road or highway when outside the confines of the passenger area of a vehice. To hunt, take or ki any bird or game anima from or on the right-of-way of any pubic road or highway, without first securing the written permission of the owner or essee of the and that abuts the road or highway. Hunt with a centerfire rife except from a patform which raises the ower eve of the barre to a minimum of eight feet above ground eve. For purposes of this act, the term hunt is defined as provided in G.S Pender Take deer with the aid of a boat or foating device in or within 100 yards of the Back River, Long Creek, Morgan Creek or Turkey Creek between N.C. 210 and the Northeast Cape Fear River. Discharge a firearm whie hunting from the right-of-way of a state-maintained road onto or across any adjoining and without permission of the owner. Perquimans Take a wid anima or bird in Snug Harbor subdivision in Bethe Township or in Longbeach Estates. Hunt with a rife arger than.22-caiber without written per - mission of the andowner. Hunt on the right-of-way of a pubic road. Hunt with or possess a firearm or bow and arrow on another s and without the permission of the andowner or essee. Hunt with a centerfire rife, except from a stand at east five feet above the ground eve. Hunt on and of another without the written permission of the owner or essee of the and, dated for the current hunting season. Person Hunt deer from a pubic road. Pitt Hunt with a firearm from or on, or across a pubic road or the right-of-way thereof. Hunt whie under the infuence of an impairing substance. Hunt with a firearm within 300 feet of any residency or occu - pied buiding without the written, signed and dated permis sion of the owner or essee of the and. Permission must be renewed annuay. Hunt or to discharge a firearm on or across posted and without the written, signed and dated permission of the owner or essee. Permission must be renewed annuay. Reease dogs on posted and without the written signed and dated permission of the owner or essee of the and. Permission must be renewed annuay. Pok Hunt with a firearm from or on a pubic road or the right-of-way thereof. Unawfu to possess or consume acoho within 50 feet of any river in Pok County. Randoph Hunt from the right-of-way of a pubic road. Richmond Take deer with dogs west of Litte River and that portion east of Litte River, bounded by N.C. 73 to the north, by Hough Road to the east and by Grassy Isand Road to the south. Hunt deer from a pubic road. Hunt with firearms from the right-of-way of any pubic road north of U.S. 74 and west of U.S Robeson Hunt deer from or through the use of any boat or other foating device. Prohibits hunting, taking or kiing any wid anima or wid bird, or attempting to hunt, take or ki any wid anima or wid bird, with the use of a firearm or bow and arrow, from, on, across or over the roadway or right-of-way of any pubic road, street or highway. Unawfuy hunt or fish on the and of another without written permission in one s possession. Permission must be dated and signed by the owner or essee within the past year. Rockingham Hunt any widife from the right-of-way of any pubic road. NOTE: Entrance to private ands to hunt is reguated by oca ordinance. Shine a ight intentionay upon any wid anima, incuding, but not imited to, deer, coyotes, or fera swine, from the rightof-way of any pubic road, street, or highway between the hours of one-haf hour after sunset and one haf hour before sunrise. Rowan Hunt, fish or trap on the and of another without written permission. Hunt with a oaded firearm or discharge the same on or across a state-maintained road. NOTE: Entrance to private ands to hunt is reguated by oca ordinance. Discharge firearms or fireworks or to create noise using mechan ica apparatus whie in the no-wake zone around Eage Point Nature Preserve on High Rock Reservoir. Rutherford Hunt, take or ki any wid anima or wid bird on, or across the right-of-way of any pubic road. Discharge a firearm on, from or across the right-of-way of any pubic road. Sampson Hunt with firearms any wid anima or wid bird from or discharge firearms from or across any state-maintained road without obtaining permission of the andowner or essee of the and abutting the road. Scotand Hunt with the use of a centerfire rife or any firearm capabe of firing a centerfire projectie, uness the person is positioned in a stationary and eevated position at east 10 feet above the ground. Possess a oaded shotgun or rife, or discharge any firearm, from, onto or across the right-of-way of a primary or secondary high /17 81 LOCAL LAWS

84 LOCAL LAWS way, except by an owner of and adjoining a secondary road or a person with an owner s written permission to hunt on such adjoining and. Hunt on and of another without written permission from the owner or essee dated within one year. Stany Hunt with a firearm from the right-of-way of a pubic road. Unawfu to take or attempt to take widife or fish on the and of another, without having on one s person written permission signed and dated for the current hunting and fishing season, of the andowner or essee. Unawfu to take or attempt to take widife on the and of another whie under the infuence of an impairing substance. Stokes Discharge a firearm in taking game animas from the right-of-way of a pubic road adjoining posted and without permission of the owner or person in charge of such and. Hunt an anima with a firearm from a pubic road. Surry Hunt any anima with a firearm from a pubic road, highway or street. Transyvania Hunt, take or ki any wid anima or bird from, on or across the rightof-way of a pubic road, street, highway or other vehicuar area. Hunt on the and of another without having written permission from the andowner or essee dated within the previous 12 months. Tyrre To hunt, take, or ki, or to attempt to hunt, take or ki, any wid anima or wid bird with a firearm, bow and arrow, or crossbow on, from, or across the right-of-way of any state-maintained road or to discharge any firearm, bow and arrow, or crossbow on, from, or across the right-of-way of any state-maintained road or high - way. This does not appy to hunters awfuy recovering dogs as ong as weapons remain in a motor vehice or to a person aw fuy engaged in the act of taking bufrogs with a rimfire weapon. To possess a oaded firearm whie on the right-of-way of any state-maintained road or highway outside the confines of the passenger area of the vehice. To hunt, take, or ki, or to attempt to hunt, take or ki, any wid anima or wid bird with a firearm, bow and arrow, or crossbow, or dogs or to possess a oaded firearm outside the confines of the passenger area of the vehice, on the and of another, with out the written permission of the andowner or essee of the and, dated and vaid for no more than one year. This aw does not appy to a person who eases and for the purpose of hunt ing whie hunt ing on that eased and or to a member of a hunt ing cub with a current and vaid membership card whie hunting on cub and. Hunt with a gun or dog on another s and without permission of the owner or essee. Union Hunt, take or ki a wid anima or wid bird from, on or across the right-of-way of any pubic road or highway. Discharge a firearm from, on or across the right-of-way of any state-maintained road. Vance Hunt or discharge a firearm on any and that has been registered with the sheriff and posted, or on a highway abutting such and, without having in possession a vaid entry permit. (Before hunting or discharging a firearm on any and or an abutting highway, it is the affirmative duty of the hunter or marksman to make appropriate inquiry about whether the and is registered and to ook for posted signs that may indicate such status.) Hunt wid animas or wid birds from, on or across the right-ofway of any pubic road or highway. Discharge a centerfire rife from, on or across the right-of-way of any pubic road or highway. Wake Hunt deer with a dog on another s and without written per - mission of the owner. Shoot at a deer from, on or across the right-of-way of a county road or state highway. Take any anima with a centerfire rife, uness the person is positioned at east eight feet above the ground. Possess a oaded firearm or hunt on the and of another without written permission. Possess oaded shotguns or centerfire rifes upon highway right-of-ways. Warren Hunt or possess a firearm or bow and arrow without acquiring an entry permit before entering on registered ands or remaining on an abutting portion of the highway. Take deer with a rife on another s and or from the right-of-way of a pubic road adjoining such and, without written permis - sion of the owner. Washington Use a firearm, bow and arrow or crossbow on, from or across the right-of-way of any state-maintained road. Possess a oaded shotgun or centerfire rife whie on the rightof-way of any state-maintained road or highway outside the confines of the passenger area of a vehice (not appicabe to the owner of the and). Hunt, take or ki a wid anima or wid bird with firearms and dogs, or to possess a oaded firearm outside the confines of the passenger area of a vehice on the and of another, without the permission of the andowner or essee. Hunt, take or ki any wid anima or wid bird with a firearm, bow and arrow or crossbow on, from or across the right-of-way of any state-maintained road or highway. Watauga Hunt, take or ki any species of wid anima or wid bird by oaded firearm or etha weapon from the right-of-way of any state-main - tained road or to discharge a firearm or weapon across any such road. Wayne Set a stee trap or Conibear -type trap, or take an anima there from, on another s and without a written ease authorizing trapping. Hunt deer with dogs or aow dogs to chase deer. Hunt with a oaded gun or discharge same on or across a statemaintained road. Hunt deer with a rife on another s and, or from a pubic road adjoining such and, without written permission of the andowner. Hunt with guns or dogs or to hunt with a bow and arrow or crossbow upon the ands of another without permis sion of the owner or essee. Wikes Shoot a raccoon whie training coon dogs during cosed season. Hunt animas with a firearm from a pubic road, except that bear or wid boar may be taken from any unpaved road. Hunt, fish or trap on and of another without written permission. Wison Hunt from a pubic road right-of-way. Hunt deer with rifes, except from a stationary stand that is eevated at east eight feet above the ground. Hunt on the and of another without having, on one s person, written permission, signed and dated for the current hunting season by the andowner or essee. Yadkin Import and reease a fox. Hunt animas with a firearm from a pubic road. Hunt, fish or trap on the and of another without written permission. Yancey Ki foxes in any manner /17 Pease note: For the convenience of the reader, major reguation changes appear in RED.

85 North Caroina Big Game Harvest for As reported by hunters to wid - ife cooperator agents, by teephone and on the Internet. Why shoud a hunter go out of his way to report the turkey gobber he just harvested? How many deer were harvested during the season here in North Caroina? Was the tota deer harvest for this period greater or ess than this figure for ast season? How is this information used? These are questions that often surface dur ing discussions of North Caroina s big game reporting system. The big game reporting system is a procedure that requires a wid turkey, boar, bear and deer harvested by hunters here in the state be reported to a widife cooperator agent, by teephone to the Widife Resources Commission via a to-free number or by the Internet. This proce dure became man datory in the fa of Successfu game management is based on many factors and data, incud ing big game harvest figures. The more that game man - agers know about popua tion trends and numbers, the easier it is for them to make decisions that affect seasons and other reg u atory matters. Sound big game man - age ment must be the resut of combined efforts of hunters and the staff of the Widife Resources Commission. Whie the figures in this report represent the reported harvest and may vary from the actua harvest, they are the best such figures avaiabe at this time. Pease do your share to see that future reports of this nature are as compete as possibe by reporting your big game harvests and by encouraging your feow sportsmen to do the same Back Bear Harvest by Region COASTAL BEAR MANAGEMENT UNIT Tota Tota Tota Tota Tota Bear Tota Bear County Mae Femae Unknown Bear Game Lands Other Lands Beaufort Bertie Baden Brunswick Camden Carteret Chowan Coumbus Craven Cumberand Currituck Dare Dupin Edgecombe Gates Greene Haifax Hertford Hyde Jones Lenoir Martin Nash New Hanover Northampton Onsow Pamico Pasquotank Pender Perquimans Pitt Robeson Sampson Tyrre Washington Wayne Wison Coasta Tota 1, , ,792 Percent of Tota 59% 41% 0.2% 5% 95% BIG GAME HARVEST REPORTS Due to space imitations, not a the harvest data coected by the Widife Resources Commission can be presented here. Sports - men can access more harvest data at ncwidife.org incuding daiy, weeky and zone harvest; harvest by weapon type and use of dogs; and harvest on each game and. See the section tited Big Game Harvest and Reporting on page 57 for information on the big game harvest reporting proce dures. 2016/17 83

86 BIG GAME HARVEST REPORTS Back Bear Harvest by Region (continued) MOUNTAIN BEAR MANAGEMENT UNIT Tota Tota Tota Tota Tota Bear Tota Bear County Mae Femae Unknown Bear Game Lands Other Lands Aeghany Ashe Avery Buncombe Burke Cadwe Cherokee Cay Ceveand Graham Haywood Henderson Jackson Macon Madison McDowe Mitche Pok Rutherford Surry Swain Transyvania Watauga Wikes Yancey Mountain Tota , Percent of Tota 65% 35% 0% 44% 56% PIEDMONT BEAR MANAGEMENT UNIT Tota Tota Tota Tota Tota Bear Tota Bear County Mae Femae Unknown Bear Game Lands Other Lands Aexander Caswe Catawba Durham Frankin Granvie Harnett Johnston Person Rockingham Stokes Vance Warren Piedmont Tota Percent of Tota 79% 21% 0% 0% 100% There was no reported bear harvest for the season in these Piedmont counties: Aamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Chatham, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Gaston, Guiford, Hoke, Irede, Lee, Lincon, Meckenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Randoph, Richmond, Rowan, Scotand, Stany, Union, Wake, and Yadkin. Statewide Tota 1,930 1, , ,507 Percent of Tota 62% 38% 0% 20% 80% /17

87 REPORTED WHITE-TAILED DEER HARVEST Sex and Age of Harvest Harvest by Weapon Type Location Antered Button Antered Bucks/ Back- Game Other County Bucks Bucks Does Tota Sq. Mie Gun powder Bow/Crossbow Lands Lands Aamance ,128 2, , / ,232 Aexander / Aeghany , , / ,050 Anson 1, ,926 3, , / ,715 Ashe 1, ,396 2, , / ,847 Avery / Beaufort 1, ,044 2, , / ,377 Bertie 1, ,744 3, , / ,521 Baden 1, , , / ,373 Brunswick , , / ,401 Buncombe / Burke , / ,270 Cabarrus , , / ,656 Cadwe / Camden / Carteret / Caswe 1, ,314 2, , / ,572 Catawba , / ,249 Chatham 1, ,311 2, , / ,388 Cherokee / Chowan / Cay / Ceveand , , / ,827 Coumbus , , / ,803 Craven 1, ,008 2, , / ,361 Cumberand / Currituck / Dare / Davidson 1, ,153 2, , / ,484 Davie / Dupin 1, , , / ,557 Durham / Edgecombe 1, ,101 2, , / ,818 Forsyth , / ,373 Frankin 1, , , / ,388 Gaston , / ,333 Gates , , / ,654 Graham / Granvie 1, , , / ,191 Greene / Guiford , , / ,977 Haifax 2, ,815 4, , / ,037 Harnett , , /45 1 1,531 Haywood / Henderson / Hertford , , / ,885 Hoke / Hyde , , /8 74 1,22/ Irede 1, ,035 2, , / ,209 Jackson / Johnston , , /55 0 1,788 Jones , , / ,429 Lee / Lenoir , , /7 0 1,308 Lincon , , / ,601 Macon / Madison , / Martin , , /8 89 1,861 McDowe / Meckenburg / BIG GAME HARVEST REPORTS 2016/17 85

88 BIG GAME HARVEST REPORTS REPORTED WHITE-TAILED DEER HARVEST (continued) Sex and Age of Harvest Harvest by Weapon Type Location Antered Button Antered Bucks/ Back- Game Other County Bucks Bucks Does Tota Sq. Mie Gun powder Bow/Crossbow Lands Lands Mitche , / ,005 Montgomery 1, ,191 2, , / ,300 Moore 1, ,132 2, , / ,856 Nash , , /16 5 1,740 New Hanover / Northampton 2, ,061 4, , / ,424 Onsow 1, , , / ,086 Orange , , / ,866 Pamico / Pasquotank / Pender 1, , , / ,277 Perquimans / Person 1, ,193 2, , / ,381 Pitt 1, , , /28 0 2,250 Pok , / ,019 Randoph 1, ,672 3, , / ,368 Richmond 1, , , / ,973 Robeson , , / ,229 Rockingham 1, ,527 3, , / ,252 Rowan , , / ,932 Rutherford 1, , , / ,898 Sampson 1, , , / ,910 Scotand / Stany 1, ,096 2, , / ,275 Stokes 1, ,322 2, , / ,647 Surry 1, , , / ,268 Swain / Transyvania / Tyrre / Union 1, ,351 2, , / ,719 Vance , , / ,591 Wake 1, , , / ,954 Warren , , / ,940 Washington , , /3 42 1,284 Watauga , , / ,454 Wayne , , /28 0 1,457 Wikes 1, ,463 3, , / ,369 Wison , /13 0 1,008 Yadkin , , /62 0 1,622 Yancey , / ,311 State 82,144 10,084 70, , ,544 16,773 11,471/6,770 5, , /17

89 Adut Tota Game Other County Gobbers Jakes Turkeys Lands Lands Aamance Aexander Aeghany Anson Ashe Avery Beaufort Bertie Baden Brunswick Buncombe Burke Cabarrus Cadwe Camden Carteret Caswe Catawba Chatham Cherokee Chowan Cay Ceveand Coumbus Craven Cumberand Currituck Dare Davidson Davie Dupin Durham Edgecombe Forsyth Frankin Gaston Gates Graham Granvie Greene Guiford Haifax Harnett Haywood Henderson Hertford Hoke Hyde Irede Jackson REPORTED SPRING WILD TURKEY HARVEST (Incudes 1,234 birds harvested during Youth Season) Adut Tota Game Other County Gobbers Jakes Turkeys Lands Lands Johnston Jones Lee Lenoir Lincon Macon Madison Martin McDowe Meckenburg Mitche Montgomery Moore Nash New Hanover Northampton Onsow Orange Pamico Pasquotank Pender Perquimans Person Pitt Pok Randoph Richmond Robeson Rockingham Rowan Rutherford Sampson Scotand Stany Stokes Surry Swain Transyvania Tyrre Union Vance Wake Warren Washington Watauga Wayne Wikes Wison Yadkin Yancey Totas 14,616 3,316 17,932 1,005 16,927 BIG GAME HARVEST REPORTS Reported Spring Wid Turkey Harvest in the Last 10 Years: , , , , , , , , , , , /17 87

90 SUNRISE AND SUNSET TABLE at Charotte, N.C., Eastern Standard Time Aug 2016 Sept 2016 Oct 2016 Nov 2016 Dec 2016 Jan 2017 Feb 2017 Mar 2017 Apr 2017 May 2017 Jun 2017 Juy 2017 Rise/Set Rise/Set Rise/Set Rise/Set Rise/Set Rise/Set Rise/Set Rise/Set Rise/Set Rise/Set Rise/Set Rise/Set Date a.m./p.m. a.m./p.m. a.m./p.m. a.m./p.m. a.m./p.m. a.m./p.m. a.m./p.m. a.m./p.m. a.m./p.m. a.m./p.m. a.m./p.m. a.m./p.m. 01 6:33/8:26 6:56/7:49 7:19/7:07 7:45/6:28 7:14/5:11 7:32/5:22 7:22/5:52 6:53/6:19 7:10/7:45 6:32/8:09 6:10/8:33 6:13/8: :33/8:25 6:57/7:48 7:19/7:05 7:46/6:27 7:15/5:11 7:32/5:23 7:22/5:53 6:51/6:20 7:08/7:46 6:31/8:10 6:10/8:33 6:13/8: :34/8:24 6:58/7:47 7:20/7:04 7:47/6:26 7:16/5:11 7:32/5:24 7:21/5:54 6:50/6:21 7:07/7:47 6:30/8:11 6:09/8:34 6:14/8: :35/8:23 6:58/7:45 7:21/7:02 7:48/6:25 7:17/5:11 7:32/5:25 7:20/5:55 6:49/6:22 7:06/7:47 6:29/8:12 6:09/8:35 6:14/8: :36/8:22 6:59/7:44 7:22/7:01 7:49/6:25 7:17/5:11 7:32/5:26 7:19/5:56 6:47/6:23 7:04/7:48 6:28/8:13 6:09/8:35 6:15/8: 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