Don’t know how true these are, but they’re pretty funny.
* In Utah, Washington, DC, and Colorado, it is against the law to fish from horseback. In Pennsylvania, you cannot even take a horse along on a fishing trip, regardless of whether it’s being ridden or not.
* No one may catch fish with his bare hands in Toltec, Colorado. And in Chicago, it is illegal to fish if you’re in your pajamas.
* Santa Clara, California, outlawed the drugging of trout in inland lakes or rivers in order to catch the fish.
* It is illegal to lasso a catfish in Tennessee and the state of Washington.
* In Seattle, goldfish can ride the city buses in bowls only if they keep still.
* You cannot shoot fish with a bow and arrow in Louisville, Kentucky. And you cannot shoot fish with a gun in the state of Washington or in Hazelhurst, Mississippi. In Vermont’s Lake Champlain, it is illegal to shoot pickerel or northern pike with a gun.
* It’s against the law to get a fish drunk in Oklahoma.
* In Kansas, you cannot fish with your bare hands, while in the state of Washington, you can’t catch a fish by throwing a rock at it.
* Goldfish cannot be used as bait.
* In Ohio, fishing with explosives is illegal.
* Muncie, Indiana, enacted a law where it is forbidden to carry fishing tackle into a cemetery.
* Any “overt physical action” intended to frighten fish is prohibited in New York State.
