Have an old bream trap that was laying around my grandfather's camp that I scooped up and want to try it this weekend. Any advice for the best bait to use in it?

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More importantly, is it even legal?

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Posted by armytiger16

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Posted on 4/8/16 at 4:10 pm to Mark Makers

Dog food and I wouldn't recommend transporting them to a lake. That's probably not going to be looked upon kindly if you get stopped.

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Posted by Mark Makers

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Posted on 4/8/16 at 4:14 pm to Mark Makers

I guess this answers that, wait until I tell pawpaw he was about to get me in trouble

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Legal Methods of Take (unless otherwise noted by species)

•Hook and Line
•Bow and Arrow
•Yo-yos or Trigger Devices
•Recreational Slat Traps
•Recreational Crawfish Traps (must be marked with a waterproof tag, provided by the fisherman, with the name and recreational gear license number of the fisherman legibly printed on the tag and must have a minimum mesh size of a hexagon of 3/4 by 11/16 of 1 inch from wire to wire not including any coating on the wire)
•Standard Spearing Equipment (used by recreational skin divers submerged in water when sport fishing)
•Barbed Gig (allowed in saltwater for taking flounder ONLY)
•Recreational Hoop Nets*
•Recreational Wire Nets*

* Allowed only in the geographical areas of the state designated as Freshwater.

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LEGAL
•Bream (Lepomis spp.) may not be taken as bait for sportfishing purposes in any form of trap except at Toledo Bend Reservoir, where a minnow trap not exceeding 24 inches in length and having a throat no larger than 1 inch by 3 inches may be used to take bream for non-commercial bait purposes.

NOT LEGAL
•Standard Spearing Equipment used by recreational skin divers is prohibited.
•Bow and Arrow
•Possession of game fish with nets or traps including recreational hoop nets, slat traps, pipes, buckets, drums, tires or cans including those licensed for recreational purposes.

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