Fact or fiction?

[robc22]

Ya can't use bluegills for bait in MA.....You can use pumpkinseed sunfish......I know, I know....who makes these crazy regs!!....

Bait fish means only live or dead fish of the following species. A person shall not use as bait any fish, alive or dead, including parts thereof, except: 1. American eel (Anguilla rostrata)2. White sucker (Catostomus commersoni)3. Creek chubsucker (Erimyzon oblongus)4. Banded killifish (Fundulus diaphanus)5. Mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus)6. Pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus)7. Golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas)8. Emerald shiner (Notropis atherinoides)9. Spottail shiner (Notropis hudsonius)10. Rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax), only as provided in 321 CMR 4.01, Table 1.11. Yellow perch (Perca flavescens)12. Fallfish (Semotilus corporalis)13. Bluntnose minnow (Pimephales notatus)14. Fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)15. Herring (Clupea spp.) may be used as bait in the Connecticut River, Merrimack River, and coastal rivers and streams, only as provided in 321 CMR 4.01: Table 1 and 322 CMR, but may not be possessed or used as bait in other rivers and streams, or in lakes, ponds, or reservoirs.

[Rappin Mikey]

You can use herring in the CT River? I didn't think you could, and have been giving people nasty looks when I have seen them.

[maddmatt]

mike

i think its legal if...they need to be bought from a shop and have to be sea herring, save the receipt to show the cops, most come vacume packed 5 or 6 to a pack and they're smaller then the real thing, as with most frozen bait they probably don't work as well as the real thing fresh.

stick to your canal special!!