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How do you save you dead bait ?
This is the law for dead bait fish. seems you can't keep your own. Don't want anyone to get a ticket.Use of Dead Fish as BaitAny dead fish, or parts thereof excluding eggs, that are legal to possess and are not prohibited for use as bait (see above) that have been packaged for commercial sale and have been preserved by methods other than by freezing only (e.q., salted minnows) can be used in any water body where it is legal to use fish as bait and do not require a receipt. Each package of dead bait fish must be individually labeled, identifying the name of the packager/processor, the name of the species, the quantity of fish contained, and the means of preservation.
I mostly use live bait for pike except from the last week of jan til the mid of feb i'll use dead bait for that period when pike lose their teeth. Seem to have more luck during this time frame with dead bait. other than that i'll use live bait.
I am not a lawyer, or a dec officer, nor do a play one on t.v. My interpretation of any dead dead fish packaged for commercial sale excludes everything else. It might be worth making a call over, think I will. Of course Right out of the bucket is no prob, but once they are salted, frozen etc. could be an issue.
Thats an old wives tale.. Ive caught many pike in this time frame and through out the season year after year time after time and i never see pike without teeth except for once and It was maybe half of them missing and i passed it off on this myth, but then the more i thought about it, it had to be from being previously caught and the teeth got damaged.. From what i gather it was started by a guy to convince his buddy to use polymer line because the guy would use nothing but steel leaders and would catch half as many fish as his buddy so trying to convince him that polymer was the way to go he told them that , that particular time of year pike loose their teeth... Its hilarious if you think about it..Just to assure you i watched 4 Northerns come through the ice last weekend and every single one of them had all their teeth...
Idk maybe its just the couple lakes i fish. The last two weeks we've fished lauderdale and cossayuna and caught 22 pike, only 2 of them had teeth poking through.