Night crawlers and earthworms may be used as bait in all Fishing Divisions in Manitoba. They may be imported to Manitoba in a sterile medium such as paper mulch, but not in soil.
Leeches, frogs and salamanders (water dogs) may also be used as bait in all Divisions. However, they may not be imported. Possession of crayfish is prohibited.
Offal (fish cleaning remains) may be used as bait in all Divisions.
Frozen or preserved bait fish may be imported and used in all Divisions.
Live bait fish may not be imported into Manitoba and may not be used or possessed in the Northwest, North Central and Northeast Divisions, including the Bloodvein and Gammon rivers. Live bait fish may be used and possessed in the Southern Division, except in the following areas:
- Stocked Trout Waters
- Duck Mountain Provincial Forest and Park
- Turtle Mountain Provincial Park
- Porcupine Provincial Forest
- Whiteshell Provincial Park
- Winnipeg River (from Seven Sisters Dam to the Ontario border)
- Atikaki and South Atikaki Provincial Parks
Those anglers in possession of purchased live bait must have a Live Bait Fish Transfer and Use Receipt issued by the dealer. Anglers may catch their own bait fish, but must kill them before transporting them away from the water where they were caught. Bait fish includes only: chub, shiner, mudminnow, sucker, trout-perch, stickleback, fathead minnow, bluntnose minnow, tullibee, sculpin, darter, dace
No angler may have in possession more than 4 litres of bait fish of which no more than 15 dozen can be live bait fish (excluding suckers and tullibee, which have no limit).
Yellow perch, goldeye, and mooneye, that have been caught by angling may also be used as bait and may be used as live bait fish where use of live bait is allowed. Anglers may only possess a legal limit of these species. Carp, goldfish, and rainbow smelt, except for purchased frozen smelt, may not be used as bait.
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