1. (A) No more than five hundred hooks may be attached to a single trotline. A trotline must not be attached to another trotline or to the support or float of another trotline.
2. (B) April first to October first a trotline is not permitted in waters in this State one hour after official sunrise to one hour before official sunset unless the trotline is sunk to the bottom or to a minimum depth of four feet below the water surface. October second to March thirty-first trotlines may be left in the water twenty-four hours a day at any depth.
3. (C) A trotline must not be placed within one hundred feet of the mouth of a tributary stream.
4. (D) A trotline may not remain in the waters of this State more than twenty-four hours without inspection and removal of the fish taken on it.
5. (E) A trotline must not be placed within two hundred yards of a permanent man-made structure on Lakes Marion and Moultrie nor placed in the diversion canal connecting Lakes Marion and Moultrie.
6. (F) Trotline hooks used in Lakes Marion and Moultrie must have a gap or clearance between point and shank no greater than seven-sixteenths inch.
7. (G) Stainless steel hooks must not be used on a trotline.

HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 170, Section 1; 1992 Act No. 316, Section 6; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1263.