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OutdoorNebraska.gov | 23 captured. Anglers must follow both the length and bag limits for that body of water. Importation – It is unlawful for individuals to import live baitfish from out of state for use in inland waters. This does not include the Missouri River. It is unlawful to import or transport live carp, carpsucker, buffalo, quillback, gar, gizzard shad or alewife into the state for use as bait. Special permits are required for a person to import and sell bait or baitfish. THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES It is unlawful to take by seine, dip net or trap any baitfish in the following streams, which contain threatened and endangered fish species: Cherry County – Brush Creek west of Brownlee, and Gordon Creek west of Neb. Hwy. 61 Dawes County – Niobrara River east of Box Butte Reservoir and west of U.S. Hwy. 385 Keya Paha County – Cottonwood Creek, East Holt Creek and Holt Creek Madison County – Taylor Creek west of U.S. Hwy. 81 Categories of Fish Species 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 Crappie hybrid 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 GAME FISH THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES NONGAME FISH Includes all species not on any of the above lists. Illegal to possess: Finscale Dace Lake Sturgeon Northern Redbelly Dace Pallid Sturgeon Pearl Dace Sturgeon Chub Topeka Shiner Blacknose Shiner