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16 | Fishing Info: 402-471-0641 GAME FISH Sport Fish: • all sunfish hybrids • American eel • black crappie • blue catfish • bluegill • brook trout • brown trout • burbot • channel catfish • chinook salmon • cutthroat trout • flathead catfish • goldeye • grass pickerel • green sunfish • largemouth bass • muskellunge • northern pike • orangespotted sunfish • paddlefish • pumpkinseed • rainbow trout • redear sunfish • rock bass • sauger • saugeye • shovelnose sturgeon • skipjack herring • smallmouth bass • spotted bass • striped bass • striped bass hybrid (wiper) • tiger muskellunge • tiger trout • walleye • white bass • white crappie Panfish: • all sunfish hybrids • black crappie • bluegill • green sunfish • hybrid crappie • orangespotted sunfish • pumpkinseed • redear sunfish • rock bass • white crappie • yellow perch Sunfish: • all sunfish hybrids • bluegill • green sunfish • orangespotted sunfish • pumpkinseed • redear sunfish Commercial Fish: • black bullhead • freshwater drum • yellow perch Baitfish: • alewife • bigmouth shiner • brassy minnow • creek chub • devil crayfish* • emerald shiner • fathead minnow • gizzard shad • golden shiner • goldfish • longnose dace • northern crayfish* • papershell crayfish* • plains killifish • red shiner • ringed crayfish* • river shiner • sand shiner • stoneroller • suckermouth minnow • barred salamander* • white sucker * covered under baitfish regulations THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES Illegal to possess: • blacknose shiner • finscale dace • lake sturgeon • northern redbelly dace • pallid sturgeon • pearl dace • sturgeon chub • Topeka shiner NONGAME FISH Includes all species not on any of the above lists. Fish Nets and Traps – The possession or use of nets, traps and electrical gear capable of stunning fish is prohibited except for the following: • Baitfish seines of one-fourth inch nonmetallic square mesh only and not more than 20 feet long and four feet deep. • Baitfish dip nets of one-fourth inch, nonmetallic square mesh. Neither length nor width may exceed 36 inches. • Baitfish and bait traps of one-fourth inch square mesh material with a length of 24 inches or less, a diameter of 16 inches or less and a throat 2¼ inches or less in diameter. All minnow traps shall be raised, and the baitfish removed at least every 24 hours. • Landing nets, made of nonmetallic mesh, used only for landing fish caught on hook-and-line. Turtle Traps – A legal snapping turtle trap must contain a throat or funnel to be constructed of netting that is at least 4 inches square mesh. The trap must have an entrance possible only from above the water's surface and must allow turtles to reach the surface to breathe. The trap must be personally checked at least every 24 hours and tagged with a metal tag listing the owner's name, address, and fishing permit number or driver's license number. Turtle traps can only be used on private waters and it is unlawful to sell, offer for sale or barter any snapping turtles. Any turtle(s) exceeding the daily bag limits shall be released immediately. Categories of Fish Species