A person may harvest and use only the following fish species as bait:
- Banded killifish
- Blacknose dace
- Bluntnose minnow
- Common shiner
- Creek chub
- Eastern silvery minnow
- Emerald shiner
- Fallfish
- Fathead minnow
- Golden shiner
- Longnose dace
- Longnose sucker
- Mimic shiner
- Northern redbelly dace
- Spottail shiner
- White sucker
- Rainbow smelt may be taken only by open-water/ice fishing and may be commercially sold as bait
- Bluegill, pumpkinseed, rock bass, yellow perch may only be taken by open-water or ice fishing and used for bait only in those waters where taken and may not be transported alive from waters where caught.
Lake Champlain
On Lake Champlain bluegill, pumpkinseed, rock bass, yellow perch and white perch may be taken by open-water fishing or ice fishing, may not be transported alive, may only be used for bait on Lake Champlain, and may not be commercially harvested or sold as bait.
Alewife may only be used/possessed if dead.
All other species of fish are prohibited for use as bait.