Reg History question

[Slabasaurus]

Forgive me as I lived in the Appalachians in VA for a number of years growing up and did not pay attention to the regs here in MN while I lived there.

When was the first time a regulation was put in place to prevent the use of sunfish as bait in MN?

Or was it always illegal to use sunfish/perch/gamefish as bait?

I remember as a youngster going to the pier at Lac Lavon and watching an older guy huckin a sunfish out to the middle of the lake with a big bobber, not sure if that was legal or not, but that must have been 1986 or so.

[Scott K]

I would say it was illegal then as well.

[Slabasaurus]

Interesting.

A semi related question... was it always legal to use perch/bluegill/sunnies in WI for bait, or was that a more recent law or rule?