No bag limit. No size limit. No closed season.
Gizzard shad and threadfin shad can be collected and used as live bait on the following waters:
- Brookville Lake
- Cecil M. Harden Lake (Raccoon SRA)
- Freeman Lake
- Hardy Lake
- Monroe Lake
- Patoka Lake
- Shafer Lake
- the Ohio River mainstream (excluding all embayments)
Live gizzard shad and threadfin shad may not be transported away from the location where collected.
Cast nets with a maximum mesh size of
2-inches stretch can be used to collect live gizzard shad and threadfin shad at these bodies of water.
Live gizzard shad or threadfin shad collected from the tailwaters of a lake or collected from other water bodies must be killed immediately upon capture and cannot be possessed alive.
A bow and arrow or crossbow can be used year-round at any time of day to take Asian carp, bowfin, buffalo fish, common carp, gar, shad, and suckers from streams, rivers, and non-flowing waters (including lakes, ponds, and reservoirs). A fishing license is required to use a bow and arrow or crossbow as fishing equipment.
Bowfin, buffalo fish, carp, gar, shad, and sucker from Lake Michigan can be taken with a bow and arrow.
A gig, fish spear, speargun, or underwater spear can be used year-round at any time of
day to take Asian carp, bowfin, buffalo fish, common carp, gar, shad, and suckers from non-flowing waters (including lakes, ponds, and reservoirs) and the following large rivers:
- Kankakee River, upstream to the SR 55 bridge
- Maumee River, upstream to the Anthony Boulevard bridge in Fort Wayne
- St. Joseph River, upstream from Twin Branch Dam in Elkhart and St. Joseph counties
- Tippecanoe River, upstream to one-half mile below its confluence with Big Creek
in Carroll County. Fish spears and fish
gigs cannot be used in, on, or adjacent to Tippecanoe River from a half-mile below its juncture with Big Creek in Carroll County upstream to the Oakdale Dam.
- Wabash River, upstream to SR 13 in Wabash
- White River, upstream from the Wabash River to the junction of East and West forks
- White River/East Fork, upstream to the dam at the south edge of Columbus
- White River/West Fork, upstream to the dam below Harding Street in Indianapolis