South Carolina § 50-13-665 - Bait which may be used with trotlines, set hooks, and jugs; penalties.

§ 50-13-665. Bait which may be used with trotlines, set hooks, and jugs; penalties.

(A) Except as provided in subsections (B) and (C), and the bait listed below, no other bait may be used with trotlines, set hooks, and jugs:

(1) soap;

(2) dough balls;

(3) nongame fish or bream cut into two or more equal parts;

(4) shrimp;

(5) meat scraps which may not include insects, worms, or other invertebrates;

(6) grapes.

(B) Notwithstanding another provision of law, on the Black, Edisto, Great Pee Dee (including the navigable oxbows and sloughs), Little Pee Dee (including the navigable oxbows and sloughs), Lumber, Lynches (including Clarks, Mill, and Muddy Creeks), Sampit, and Waccamaw Rivers, live nongame fish and live bream may be used with single-barbed set hooks that have a shank-to-point gap of fifteen-sixteenths inches or greater. However, it is unlawful for a person to have in possession more than the lawful creel limit of bream while fishing with nongame devices on these rivers.

(C) Live nongame fish and live bream may be used on a trotline having not more than twenty hooks that have a shank-to-point gap of fifteen-sixteenths inches or greater on the Black, Great Pee Dee (including the navigable oxbows and sloughs), Little Pee Dee (including the navigable oxbows and sloughs), Lumber, Lynches (including Clarks, Mill, and Muddy Creeks) and Waccamaw Rivers. However, it is unlawful for a person to have in possession more than the lawful creel limit of bream while fishing with nongame devices on these rivers.

(D) A person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days.

HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 170, SECTION 1; 1982 Act No. 461, SECTION 7; 1993 Act No. 181, SECTION 1263; 1995 Act No. 24, SECTION 1; 1998 Act No. 314, SECTION 1; 1999 Act No. 53, SECTION 1; 2001 Act No. 31, SECTION 1; 1976 Code SECTION 50-13-1187; 2012 Act No. 114, SECTION 4, eff July 1, 2012; 2013 Act No. 16, SECTION 1, eff April 23, 2013.

Effect of Amendment

The 2012 amendment renumbered and rewrote the section.

The 2013 amendment, in subsections (B) and (C), substituted "fifteen-sixteenths" for "one and three-sixteenths" before "inches or greater".