Is this bait legal? Skulpin and corn

[Galpster]

Getting ready to start river fishing, looking for some holes and was thinking about bait choices. Back home in Montana years ago we could use corn in the creeks, works great on brook trout. Our favorite river bait was a little fish we would go net called a skulpin ( could be hammering the spelling), they stopped usage sometime like 96. Can you use them up and corn here? If so, does anyone know where to net some, drainages, ranch irregation.

Thanks

[jackelope]

Live bait==illegal.

[Galpster]

Understand and saw the live bait illegal but it is dead. We would catch them and put them in sandwich bags about 6 to a pack and freeze them. Take them out the morning of the fishing trip and perfect when we hit the river.

Is dead bait considered live bait?

Sorry folks, not from this state and have alot of learning to do!!

[BIGINNER]

OH COOL.. WELL I HAVE A QUESTION ON THIS SUBJECT TOO.  SINCE LIVEBAIL IS ELLEGAL, DUE TO INTRODUCING  INVACIVE NON-NATIVE SPECIES,  WHAT IF YOU CATCH THE LITTLE FISH TO USE FOR BAIT IN THE SAME BODY OF WATER?

[BIGINNER]

I BELEIVE ITS FINE IF THEY'RE DEAD

[rb2506]

always learning new things wa regs are tough to understand at times

[Curly]

Corn would be illegal unless chumming is specifically allowed in that body of water.

[Galpster]

OH COOL.. WELL I HAVE A QUESTION ON THIS SUBJECT TOO.  SINCE LIVEBAIL IS ELLEGAL, DUE TO INTRODUCING  INVACIVE NON-NATIVE SPECIES,  WHAT IF YOU CATCH THE LITTLE FISH TO USE FOR BAIT IN THE SAME BODY OF WATER?

Not sure what there response was to that or is today. I joined the Army and have never returned. Love Montana but hard to make a living.

[bearpaw]

Couldn't you use corn for bait as long as you don't chum with it.

There are skulpins in the columbia. Not sure if they can legally be used for bait or not.

[Curly]

Yes, you can put kernels of corn on your hook.......you just can't dump a can of corn in the water and fish there. 

[Hillbilly270]

Corn would be illegal unless chumming is specifically allowed in that body of water.

what if the corn is dead?

[Curly]

 

[buckhorn2]

the charter boats use anchovies for bass and salmon for ling cod and blue gill and suckers for catfish and live anchovies for tuna so I would think it would be legal but don; know about corn. They use salmon for halibut.

[Curly]

Getting ready to start river fishing, looking for some holes and was thinking about bait choices. Back home in Montana years ago we could use corn in the creeks, works great on brook trout. Our favorite river bait was a little fish we would go net called a skulpin ( could be hammering the spelling), they stopped usage sometime like 96. Can you use them up and corn here? If so, does anyone know where to net some, drainages, ranch irregation.

Thanks

I'm pretty sure it is illegal in this state to net fish like is common in some other states.  So, if you want to use skulpin for bait I think you'd have to catch them by hook and line.  Just download the fishing regs in pdf format and start searching the document for key words.

[Curly]

Below are some quotes from the regs:

It is unlawful to chum or broadcast any substance to attract game fish.  Where use of bait is prohibited, or where lures or flies are used voluntarily, game fish may be caught and released until the daily limit is retained. If any fish has swallowed the hook or is hooked in the gill, eye, or tongue, it should be kept if legal to do so.

It is unlawful to possess or use live aquatic animals as bait, except:
1. Live aquatic animals (other than fish) collected from the water being fished.
2. Live sand shrimp.
3. Live forage fish in the Columbia River downstream of the Rocky Point/
Tongue Point line.


You May Not:

• Fish in closed waters.
  Retain wild STEELHEAD or DOLLY VARDEN/ BULL TROUT except where specially authorized in the special rules.
  Retain a GREEN STURGEON.
  Take, fish for, or possess PACIFIC LAMPREY, WESTERN BROOK LAMPREY, or RIVER LAMPREY, or use any species of LAMPREY for bait.
  Harvest in freshwater any fish not classified as a food fish or game fish (See definitions page 18).
  Fish for PYGMY WHITEFISH, MARGINED SCULPIN, or OLYMPIC MUDMINNOW.