Ohio Administrative Code
Title 1501:31 - Division of Wildlife
Chapter 1501:31-13 - Sport Fishing
Section 1501:31-13-04 - Bait and bait dealers

(a) For a person permitted under section 1533.40 of the Revised Code to possess minnows, fish listed in paragraphs (A)(2) and (A)(3)(e) of this rule, crayfish and hellgrammites at any place, except at the address listed on that person's application for a permit, without having each receptacle containing minnows, fish, crayfish, and hellgrammites marked with that person's name, address and permit number in letters and numerals at least one-half inch high in the English language;

(b) For any person to take any fish not mentioned in paragraph (A)(1) of this rule by the aid or use of a trap, net or seine unless authorized by a license or permit issued by the division of wildlife;

(c) For any person, except a person possessing a permit issued under section 1533.40 of the Revised Code or a licensed fishing guide providing bait to their customers, to have in possession more than one hundred crayfish or five hundred in the aggregate of the wild animals specified in paragraph (A)(2) of this rule, excepting therefrom, smelt, hellgrammites, other larval aquatic insects, and canned or preserved minnows, except as provided for in section 1533.57 of the Revised Code;

(d) For a person permitted under section 1533.40 of the Revised Code to sell to any person other than a person possessing a permit issued under section 1533.40 of the Revised Code more than one hundred crayfish or five hundred in the aggregate of the wild animals specified in paragraph (A)(2) of this rule, excepting therefrom, smelt, hellgrammites, other larval aquatic insects and canned or preserved minnows;

(e) For a person permitted under section 1533.40 of the Revised Code to sell or offer for sale: bluegill sunfish (Lepomis machrochirus), longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis), green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus) and hybrids thereof, orange-spotted sunfish (Lepomis humilis), pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus), redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus), warmouth sunfish (Lepomis gulosis), yellow bullhead (Ameiurus natalis), brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus), or black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) unless those fish have been legally acquired from a person permitted under section 1533.40 or section 1533.632 of the Revised Code or legally acquired from out of state;

(f) For a person permitted under section 1533.40 of the Revised Code to possess any live fish listed in paragraph (A)(3)(e) of this rule at the person's usual place of business listed on that person's application unless those fish have been legally acquired from a person permitted under section 1533.40 or section 1533.632 of the Revised Code or legally acquired from out of state;

(g) For a person permitted under section 1533.40 of the Revised Code to fail to keep a copy of the receipts as described in paragraph (A)(3)(e) of this rule for at least two years;

(h) For any person to possess, buy, sell or offer for sale live skipjack herring within the lake Erie drainage basin, except as provided for in section 1533.632 of the Revised Code.

(a) All sales and purchases of minnows, fish, crayfish, hellgrammites and other larval aquatic insects;

(b) The type of animal bought or sold;

(c) The amount of animals in gallons, numbers or pounds;

(d) The date of sale or purchase;

(e) The name and address of the buyer and seller.