Rough Fish + Crossbow = Legal?

[BOBinIN]

With the crossbow becoming legal equipment for deer this fall season, I was wondering if they can also be used to take rough fish (Carp). Thank, BOBinIN

[morrison]

The statute that regulates the equipment that may be used to take rough fish does not include crossbow. That administrative law was not changed.


(m) An individual may, by means of a fish spear, gig, spear gun, bowfishing equipment, or underwater spear, take only any
sucker, carp, gar, bowfin, buffalo, or shad and only from the following waterways:
(1) West Fork of the White River from its junction with the East Fork upstream to the dam below the Harding Street generating
plant of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company in Marion County.
(2) East Fork of the White River from its junction with the West Fork upstream to the dam at the south edge of the city of
Columbus in Bartholomew County.
(3) White River from its junction with the West Fork of the White River and East Fork of the White River to its junction with
the Wabash River in Gibson, Knox, and Pike counties.
(4) Wabash River from its junction with the Ohio River upstream to State Road 13 at the south edge of the city of Wabash in
Wabash County.
(5) Tippecanoe River upstream from its junction with the Wabash River to one-half (1/2) mile below its junction with Big
Creek in Carroll County. An individual must not possess a fish spear or fish gig in, on, or adjacent to the Tippecanoe River
from one-half (1/2) mile below its junction with Big Creek in Carroll County upstream to the Oakdale Dam that forms Lake
Freeman.
(6) Maumee River from the Ohio state line upstream to the Anthony Boulevard Bridge in the city of Fort Wayne.
(7) Kankakee River from the Illinois state line upstream to State Road 55 bridge south of the city of Shelby in Lake County.
(8) St. Joseph River in St. Joseph and Elkhart counties.
(n) In addition to any other lawful method, an individual may take a sucker, carp, gar, bowfin, buffalo, or shad by:
(1) bow and arrows from Lake Michigan; or
(2) spear, gig, spear gun, underwater spear, or bow and arrows from another lake.