Legality of blowgun hunting/fishing. . .

If you go out in the woods to blow anything in Texas, you’re in trouble.

Check you local wildlife resources agency. It varies state to state. Im sure its online google texas wildlife resources agecny or texas hunting and fishing laws.

@buster I looked on the Texas Parks and Wildlife department website and couldn’t find anything about blowguns. I guess checking with my local wildlife resource agency will be the best option. Thanks.

As far as fishing goes in Texas, you can only go after non-game fish with a blow gun, and you still have to have a fishing license. As Parks and Wildlife puts it:

“Spear:
Any shaft with single or multiple points, barbed or barbless, which may be propelled by any means, but does not include arrows.

* May be used to take NONGAME fish only.

Speargun:
Any hand operated device designed and used for propelling a spear, but does not include the crossbow.

* May be used to take NONGAME fish only.”
(From http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/annual/fish/legal_devices/ )

Nongame fish are basically anything that isn’t a game fish or an endangered or threatened species.

Game fish in Texas include:

Game Fish (includes hybrids or subspecies of fish on this list):

* Bass: Guadalupe, largemouth, smallmouth, spotted, striped, white, yellow
* Catfish: blue, channel, flathead
* Cobia
* Crappie: black, white
* Mackerel: king, Spanish
* Marlin: blue, white
* Pickerel
* Red drum
* Sailfish
* Sauger
* Seatrout, spotted
* Sharks
* Snook
* Spearfish, longbill
* Swordfish, broadbill
* Tarpon
* Tripletail
* Trout: brown, rainbow
* Wahoo
* Walleye

And here is a link to endangered and threatened species: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/endang/animals/fish/

Basically the same thing holds for hunting: nongame animals only. These include

* Armadillos*
* Bobcats*
* Coyotes*
* Flying squirrels
* Frogs
* Ground squirrels
* Mountain lions
* Porcupines
* Prairie dogs
* Rabbits
* Turtles

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/annual/hunt/nongame/ (by Turtles, they mean freshwater turtles, not terrapins or sea turtles).

I am sure your local game warden can clarify this further.

i still prefer my answer…

@Darwin Thanks a lot! I suppose I just wasn’t looking in the right places.

I think you have to be used to their site, to know where to look. It helps to know a lot of game wardens and TPWD staff also, so you learn how they think.