For the purposes of this article:

1. (a) "Set hook" is defined as a single hook and line set in or along any of the rivers, streams, lakes or waters of this State used to catch fish while attached to bushes, limbs, vines, undergrowth or other parts of vegetation, set poles, pegs, sticks or similar structures. "Set hooks" shall include all similar hook and line devices by whatever name called.
2. (b) "Jug fishing" is defined as fishing by use of a single hook and line attached to a free floating device other than a flotation marker for trotlines, traps or other devices.
3. (c) "Trap" is defined as any device in which fish are taken in an enclosed structure which conforms with the specifications contained in subsection (A) of Section 50-13-1165, except eel pots and shall include fish traps, baskets and like devices.
4. (d) "Eel pot" is defined as an enclosed structure used to take eels only and which conforms to the specifications provided in subsection (B) of Section 50-13-1165.
5. (e) "Trotline" is defined as two or more hooks attached to a common line which is rigged horizontally.
6. (f) "Hoop net" is defined as a device in which fish are taken in an enclosed structure which conforms with the specifications contained in Section 50-13-1175.
7. (g) "Skimbow net" is defined as a hand-operated dip net with the bow constructed of wood or metal with wire or textile netting with a mesh size not greater than one and one-half inches square. The bow shall not exceed six feet in any direction.
8. (h) "Minnow seine" is defined as a seine of a size not greater than four feet in width by twenty feet in length with a mesh size of not more than one-fourth inch square mesh.
9. (i) "Gig" is defined as a device consisting of a long staff on which two or more hooks or similar type sharp points normally with barbs are attached.
10. (j) "Spear" is defined as a device for thrusting or throwing consisting of a long staff to which a sharp head is fixed.
11. (k) "Bows and arrows" are defined as a strip of wood or other material bent by a string stretched between its ends used for shooting arrows.
12. (l) "Gill net" is defined as a device for the taking of nongame fish which conforms to the specifications provided in subsection (1) of Section 50-13-1170.
13. (m) "Yoyo" is a device to which "set hooks" are attached which is activated by spring-like devices.
14. (n) "Tires" are defined as truck or automobile tires not exceeding twenty-inch rim.
15. (o) "Cast net" is a circular shaped net with a lead line running around the outside edge. A cord line extends through a ring or horn in the center of the net and from this end there radiates numerous smaller cords (tuck line) which are fastened at regular intervals to the lead line.
16. (p) "Seine" is a net having a stretch mesh of not less than one inch and not more than one and one-half inches which do not exceed seventy-five feet in length or six feet in depth.
17. (q) "Pump net" is a net suspended from a pole placed in a forked stick or device which may be lowered or raised manually in a seesaw type action.

HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 170, Section 1; 1982 Act No. 461, Section 4; 1984 Act No. 367, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1263.