quote:The following acts will disqualify a catch:
1. Failure to comply with equipment or angling regulations.
2. The act of persons other than the angler in touching any part
of the rod, reel, or line (including the double line) either bodily or
with any device, from the time a fish strikes or takes the bait or lure,
until the fish is either landed or released, or in giving any aid other
than that allowed in the rules and regulations. If an obstacle to the
passage of the line through the rod guides has to be removed from the
line, then the obstacle (whether chum, floatline, rubber band, or other
material) shall be held and cut free. Under no circumstances should
the line be held or touched by anyone other than the angler during this
process.
3. Resting the rod in a rod holder, on the gunwale of the boat,
or any other object while playing the fish.
4. Handlining or using a handline or rope attached in any
manner to the angler's line or leader for the purpose of holding or
lifting the fish.
5. Shooting, harpooning, or lancing any fish (including sharks
and halibuts) at any stage of the catch.
6. Chumming with or using as bait the flesh, blood, skin, or any
part of mammals other than hair or pork rind used in lures designed
for trolling or casting.
7. Using a boat or device to beach or drive a fish into shallow
water in order to deprive the fish of its normal ability to swim.
8. Changing the rod or reel while the fish is being played.
9. Splicing, removing, or adding to the line while the fish is
being played.
10. Intentionally foul-hooking a fish.
11. Catching a fish in a manner that the double line never leaves
the rod tip.
12. Using a size or kind of bait that is illegal to possess.
13. Attaching the angler's line or leader to part of a boat or other
object for the purpose of holding or lifting the fish.
14. If a fish escapes before gaffing or netting and is recaptured
by any method other than as outlined in the angling rules.
The following situations will disqualify a catch:
1. When a rod breaks (while the fish is being played) in a
manner that reduces the length of the tip below minimum dimensions
or severely impairs its angling characteristics.
2. Mutilation to the fish, prior to landing or boating the catch,
caused by sharks, other fish, mammals, or propellers that remove or
penetrate the flesh. (Injuries caused by leader or line, scratches, old
healed scars or regeneration deformities are not considered to be
disqualifying injuries.) Any mutilation on the fish must be shown in a
photograph and fully explained in a separate report accompanying the
record application.
3. When a fish is hooked or entangled on more than one line
