Bows and arrows, gigs, spears, tires, cast nets, and minnow seines may be used in freshwaters except in lakes owned or managed by the department. Notwithstanding other provisions of this article, it is unlawful to use or possess a nongame fishing device or gear or the number not authorized by this section for a particular body of water. Nongame fishing devices, except as provided in this section, must not be used in freshwater including tributaries of rivers or creeks unless listed and regulated as indicated below:

1. (1) Ashepoo River:

   1. (a) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
   2. (b) eel pots: no limit;

2. (2) Ashley River:

   1. (a) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
   2. (b) eel pots: no limit;

3. (3) Black Creek; Darlington, Florence, and Chesterfield counties including Lakes Robinson and Prestwood:

   1. (a) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
   2. (b) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
   3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

4. (4) Black River:

   1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
   2. (b) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
   3. (c) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;

5. (5) Broad River, includes the waters from the North Carolina line to the confluence of the Broad and Saluda Rivers:

   1. (a) traps: five for each license holder;
   2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
   3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
   4. (d) seines from Highway 34 Bridge up: one for each license holder;

6. (6) Bull Creek; Horry and Georgetown counties:

   1. (a) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
   2. (b) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
   3. (c) eel pots: no limit;
   4. (d) traps: fifty maximum with commercial license;
7. (7) Buffalo Creek: seines: one for each license holder;
8. (8) Bush River, Laurens County: seines: one for each license holder;

9. (9) Combahee River:

   1. (a) set hooks: maximum fifty for each license holder;
   2. (b) eel pots: no limit;

10. (10) Congaree River, includes the waters from the Gervais Street Bridge in Columbia to the Interstate 77 bridge in Columbia:

    1. (a) traps: fifty maximum with commercial license;
    2. (b) trotlines: two thousand hooks maximum with commercial license;
    3. (c) hoop nets: fifty maximum with commercial license;

11. (11) Cooper River:

    1. (a) traps: fifty maximum with commercial license and not allowed upstream from Wadboo Creek;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder. No trotlines permitted upstream from Wadboo Creek;
    3. (c) fyke nets: as allowed for eel fishing by regulation;
    4. (d) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder, and no set hooks permitted upstream from Wadboo Creek;
    5. (e) eel pots: no limit and not allowed upstream from Wadboo Creek;
    6. (f) pump nets: no limit;
12. (12) Coosawhatchie and Tullifinny Rivers: set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

13. (13) Mallard's Lake, Dorchester County waters:

    1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    2. (b) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

14. (14) Mims Lake, Dorchester County waters:

    1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    2. (b) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

15. (15) Shuler Lake, Dorchester County waters:

    1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    2. (b) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

16. (16) Woods Lake, Dorchester County waters:

    1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    2. (b) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

17. (17) Bridge Lake, Dorchester County waters:

    1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    2. (b) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

18. (18) Little Pond Lake, Dorchester County waters;

    1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    2. (b) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

19. (19) Steed's Lake, Dorchester County waters:

    1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    2. (b) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

20. (20) John's Hole Lake, Dorchester County waters:

    1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    2. (b) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

21. (21) Rock's Lake, Dorchester County waters:

    1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    2. (b) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

22. (22) Mouth of Four Holes Lake, Dorchester County waters:

    1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    2. (b) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
23. (23) Durbin Creek: seines: one for each license holder;

24. (24) Edisto River:

    1. (a) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) eel pots: no limit;

25. (25) Enoree River:

    1. (a) traps: two for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty for each license holder;
    4. (d) seines: one for each license holder from Southern Railroad in Greenville County down;

26. (26) Great Pee Dee River, includes the waters from I-95 to the North Carolina line;

    1. (a) traps: fifty maximum allowed with commercial license;
    2. (b) trotlines: two thousand maximum hooks with commercial license;
    3. (c) gill nets: nongame nets allowed in season;
    4. (d) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
    5. (e) hoop nets: fifty maximum with commercial license north of S.C. 34 only;

27. (27) Great Pee Dee River, includes the water from I-95 to the saltwater-freshwater line:

    1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
    4. (d) eel pots: below Highway 701 bridge only, no limit;
    5. (e) traps: fifty maximum allowed with commercial license;

28. (28) Jefferies Creek, Florence County:

    1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-lines maximum for each license holder;

29. (29) Lake J. Strom Thurmond and Stevens Creek:

    1. (a) traps: five maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    3. (c) jugs: fifty maximum for each license holder;

30. (30) Lake Greenwood:

    1. (a) traps: five maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    3. (c) jugs: fifty maximum for each license holder;

31. (31) Lake Hartwell:

    1. (a) traps: five maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
32. (32) Lake Jocassee: nongame devices prohibited;

33. (33) Lake Keowee:

    1. (a) traps: five maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;

34. (34) Lakes Marion and Moultrie, the waters lying between the confluence of the Wateree and Congaree Rivers, and the backwaters of Lake Marion are considered a part of Lake Marion:

    1. (a) traps: fifty maximum with commercial license;
    2. (b) trotlines: two thousand hooks maximum with commercial license. Hooks must have a gap or clearance between point and shank no greater than seven-sixteenths inch;

35. (35) Lake Murray:

    1. (a) traps: five maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;

36. (36) Lake Richard B. Russell:

    1. (a) traps: five maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    3. (c) jugs: fifty maximum for each license holder;

37. (37) Lake Secession:

    1. (a) traps: two maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    3. (c) jugs: fifty maximum for each license holder;

38. (38) Lake Wateree:

    1. (a) traps: five maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;

39. (39) Catawba River, includes the waters from the Lake Wylie Dam to the backwaters of Lake Wateree, including reservoirs:

    1. (a) traps: two maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
    4. (d) seines: one for each license holder, York County only;

40. (40) Lake Wylie:

    1. (a) traps: five maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
41. (41) Little River: seines: one for each license holder from Mars Bridge in McCormick County up;

42. (42) Little Pee Dee River:

    1. (a) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) gill nets: nongame nets allowed in season;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
43. (43) Log Creek, Edgefield County: seines: one for each license holder;
44. (44) Long Cane Creek, above Patterson Bridge: seines: one for each license holder;

45. (45) Louder's Lake, Darlington County:

    1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    2. (b) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

46. (46) Lumber River:

    1. (a) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

47. (47) Lynches River:

    1. (a) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) gill nets: nongame nets allowed in season;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
48. (48) Mulberry Creek, Greenwood County: seines: one for each license holder;
49. (49) New River: set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

50. (50) Old River:

    1. (a) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;

51. (51) Pacolet River:

    1. (a) traps: two for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
    4. (d) seines: one for each license holder;
52. (52) Rabon Creek, Laurens County: seines: one for each license holder;
53. (53) Redbank Creek, Saluda County west of Highway 121: seines: one for each license holder;

54. (54) Reedy River:

    1. (a) traps: two for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
    4. (d) seines: one for each license holder from Southern Railroad in Greenville County down;
55. (55) Rocky River, Anderson County: seines: one for each license holder;
56. (56) Salkehatchie River: set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

57. (57) Saluda River, includes the waters from the Southern Railroad Trestle in Greenville County to the backwaters of Lake Greenwood and the waters from the Lake Greenwood Dam to the backwaters of Lake Murray:

    1. (a) traps: two for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
    4. (d) seines: one for each license holder, in Anderson, Laurens, and Greenville counties only, except in Anderson County seines may be used in the river tributaries;

58. (58) Saluda River, includes the waters from the Lake Murray Dam to the Gervais Street Bridge in Columbia:

    1. (a) traps: two for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;

59. (59) Sampit River:

    1. (a) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    2. (b) traps: fifty maximum with commercial license;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

60. (60) Santee River, downstream from Wilson Dam on Lake Marion, and the waters lying between the confluence of the Wateree and Congaree Rivers and Lake Marion are considered a part of Lake Marion:

    1. (a) traps: fifty maximum with commercial license;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    3. (c) nongame gear: not allowed, except skimbow nets allowed upstream of U.S. Geological Survey Gauging Station No. 1715 which is approximately 2.4 miles below Santee Dam;
    4. (d) eel pots: no limit;

61. (61) Savannah River below Stevens Creek Dam:

    1. (a) traps: fifty maximum with commercial license;
    2. (b) hoop nets: fifty maximum with commercial license;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
    4. (d) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    5. (e) trotlines: two thousand maximum hooks with commercial license;
    6. (f) eel pots: no limit;
62. (62) Stevens Creek, above Clark's Hill Bridge: seines: one for each license holder;
63. (63) Thickly Creek, Cherokee County: seines: one for each license holder;
64. (64) Turkey Creek, Edgefield and Greenwood counties: seines: one for each license holder;

65. (65) Twelve Mile Creek:

    1. (a) traps: two maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;

66. (66) Tyger River:

    1. (a) traps: two maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
    4. (d) seines: one for each license holder;

67. (67) Waccamaw River:

    1. (a) trotlines: one hundred fifty hooks maximum and three-line maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) gill nets: nongame nets in season;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
    4. (d) eel pots, below the junction of Big Bull Creek: no limit;
68. (68) Warrior Creek, Laurens County: seines: one for each license holder;

69. (69) Wateree River:

    1. (a) traps: fifty maximum with commercial license;
    2. (b) trotlines: two thousand hooks maximum with commercial license;
    3. (c) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
    4. (d) hoop nets: fifty maximum with commercial license;
70. (70) Wilson Creek, Greenwood County: seines: one for each license holder one mile above the backwaters of Greenwood up.

71. (71) Congaree River, includes the waters from the Interstate 77 bridge in Columbia to the confluence of the Congaree and Wateree Rivers:

    1. (a) set hooks: fifty maximum for each license holder;
    2. (b) trotline: two thousand hooks maximum with commercial license;
    3. (c) traps: ten maximum with commercial license;
    4. (d) hoop nets: ten maximum with commercial license;
    5. (e) Notwithstanding other provisions of this title, for the Congaree River from I-77 bridge in Columbia to the confluence of the Wateree and Congaree Rivers where the number of hoop nets used is restricted to ten, these devices must be marked with a floating marker with a minimum capacity of one pint and a maximum capacity of one gallon or equivalent size and must be made of solid, buoyant material which does not sink if punctured or cracked. The floating markers must be constructed of plastic, PVC spongex, plastic foam, or cork. No hollow buoys or floats including plastic, metal, or glass bottles or jugs may be used, except manufactured buoys or floats specifically designed for use with nongame fishing devices may be hollow if constructed of heavy duty plastic material and approved by the department. The floating markers must be colored white when used the first through the fifteenth of each month and yellow when used the remainder of the month. The owner's name and address must be marked clearly on each floating marker.

HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 170, Section 1; 1982 Act No. 461, Section 9; 1983 Act No. 107, Section 1; 1983 Act No. 131, Section 2; 1984 Act No. 320, Section 1; 1984 Act No. 364, Section 1; 1984 Act No. 367, Section 3; 1984 Act No. 430, Section 1; 1985 Act No. 61, Section 1; 1986 Act No. 454, Section 1; 1992 Act No. 316, Section 7; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1263; 1994 Act No. 350, Section 2; 2000 Act No. 350, Sections 1, 2.