1. (A) Except as provided in subsections (B) and (C), no game fish, live bait, or other bait other than bait listed below may be used with trotlines, set hooks, and jugs:

   1. (1) soap;
   2. (2) dough balls;
   3. (3) cut fish which must be nongame fish cut into at least three equal parts;
   4. (4) shrimp;
   5. (5) meat scraps which may not include insects, worms, or other invertebrates;
   6. (6) grapes.
2. (B) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, on the Edisto, Black, Sampit, Big Pee Dee, Little Pee Dee, Lumber, and Waccamaw Rivers, live nongame fish and bream may be used with single-barbed set hooks that have a shank-to-point gap of one and three-sixteenths inches or greater. However, it is unlawful for any person to have in his possession more than thirty bream while fishing with nongame tackle on these rivers.
3. (C) Live nongame fish and bream may be used on trotlines having not more than twenty hooks that have a shank-to-point gap of one and three-sixteenths inches or greater on the Black, Big Pee Dee, Little Pee Dee, Lumber, and Waccamaw Rivers. However, it is unlawful for any person to have in his possession more than thirty bream while fishing with nongame tackle on these rivers.
4. (D) Any 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.