Re: Proposed byelaws to regulate fish removal by rod and line

**Stotty** · by **Stotty** on Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:23 am

blower wrote:i thought you couldn't take fish from one water and use as live bait in another. and whats with the certain large still waters with no plans to do it to all still waters. prehaps it would be better to put byelaws in for only certain species to be taken from certain waters to limit fish removal and maybe have a register so as to monitor strechies of river and still waters that do stock fish for the table.

many areas have differing bye laws regarding the use of live bait

The use of coarse fish (live or dead) for bait is legal in England and Wales except on certain named lakes in Cumbria.
Fish taken for use as live bait may only be used on the water from which they have been taken.

http://www.pacgb.co.uk/tips/law.html