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re: Fishing with goldfish legal or illegal? ***Update in OP
Posted on 2/20/19 at 8:10 am to Boat Motor Bandit
Posted on 2/20/19 at 8:10 am to Boat Motor Bandit
Let's go fishing
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Posted on 2/20/19 at 8:11 am to WPsportsman
They are legal to use, a flathead will nail em in the river.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 8:23 am to Geauxtiga
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Some people so strongly believed it to be true that they would hotly disagree when told fishing with goldfish was not illegal. To those I simply handed a fishing regulations booklet and asked them to please find the goldfish ban for me, since none of us on the job could.
I’m still waiting.
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Yep. No one can find the law anywhere but are so confident they are banned. Use them all the time and get from bait shops. The big ones can set off a yo-yo.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 8:29 am to WPsportsman
Legal in north la. Used for limb lines, trotlines, etc
Posted on 2/20/19 at 8:33 am to keakar
quote:
nope, very illegal
its an invasive species that if it gets lose will overpopulate natural areas and hurt local fish.
you get caught its a serious violation they dont play around with
Please show me law or serious violation.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 8:55 am to whodatigahbait
quote:It is not illegal in LA, end of story... For a time many many years ago City Park in NOLA had a ban on fishing with gold fish and a small sign stating that fishing with goldfish was not legal(perhaps this is where this got started).
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nope, very illegal
its an invasive species that if it gets lose will overpopulate natural areas and hurt local fish.
you get caught its a serious violation they dont play around with
Please show me law or serious violation.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 9:18 am to wickowick
Posted on 2/20/19 at 9:20 am to choupiquesushi
Yea we use them all the time for Flathead...most bait stores have em
Posted on 2/20/19 at 9:22 am to choupiquesushi
Used to live on the lake and my live in girl friend had an aquarium. Had some gold fish in it and I put a small sun fish I caught in it. Everyday the flowing fins of the goldfish kept getting smaller and smaller. I doubt if any got loose they were scarfed up quickly.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 9:33 am to WPsportsman
Posted on 2/20/19 at 10:22 am to Cajunate
Caught the biggest crappie I've ever seen alive (not mounted) up in Oklahoma with a lionhead goldfish (those fat bodied bubble eyed with forehead growth looking goldfish). Could have stuck a coke can lengthwise in his mouth easy.
The hybrid striper up there love goldfish too.
The crystal clear water in many of those OK lakes makes the goldfish an easy to spot target for gamefish.
The hybrid striper up there love goldfish too.
The crystal clear water in many of those OK lakes makes the goldfish an easy to spot target for gamefish.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 10:25 am to VernonPLSUfan
quote:Used to feed my Oscar goldfish after he outgrew worms. Was pretty cool to see the scales ejected from his gills as he chewed them up. Kinda same effect but in slow motion as the glitter flying off the strippers on the pole at the ....nevermind
Used to live on the lake and my live in girl friend had an aquarium. Had some gold fish in it and I put a small sun fish I caught in it. Everyday the flowing fins of the goldfish kept getting smaller and smaller. I doubt if any got loose they were scarfed up quickly.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 11:15 am to Sidicous
quote:my son used to catch a few oscars in a gully and pond near our house....
Used to feed my Oscar goldfish after he outgrew worms. Was pretty cool to see the scales ejected from his gills as he chewed them up. Kinda same effect but in slow motion as the glitter flying off the strippers on the pole at the ....nevermind
Posted on 2/20/19 at 11:17 am to WPsportsman
Illegal unless they're dead.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 11:28 am to WPsportsman
We have used this simple trick for 45 years.
Buy plain ole shiners, and dip them in mercurochrome once you have them on the hook. Instant goldfish, legal, and a lot cheaper.
Buy plain ole shiners, and dip them in mercurochrome once you have them on the hook. Instant goldfish, legal, and a lot cheaper.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 11:41 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
quote:show where this is in the regulations
Illegal unless they're dead.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 11:57 am to WPsportsman
Posted on 2/20/19 at 11:58 am to choupiquesushi
quote:
Illegal unless they're dead.
show where this is in the regulations
Yep. there is no prohibition anywhere in the regs regarding use of goldfish as bait. Hammered the catfish running jugs a couple weeks back on gold fish
Posted on 2/20/19 at 12:21 pm to Boat Motor Bandit
quote:I went back.
But once you use gold fish you'll never go back to perch.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 12:24 pm to SaDaTayMoses
Why all the down votes?
Y’all don’t like setting lines in the river for flat heads???? Aka spotted cat
Y’all don’t like setting lines in the river for flat heads???? Aka spotted cat
This post was edited on 2/20/19 at 12:25 pm
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