before i respond, i "feel" the same and personaly would use eggs. i still feel the regs dont clearly permit this. if we use the same judgement based on the above quote, particularly
since fish parts are mention right along with fish eggs without limitation to speices, then "parts of" trout could be used as bait. yet when i posted the querry on ussing trout bellies as bait some time ago most felt that it was prohibited.
i dont think we can prove one way or another with the limited info forund in the reg pamphlets. i am still hoping to to find easy public access to the full code and there is were we might be able to answer this and many other vague regs.
most important to this thread is that folks that thought they were doing something totaly legal now realize there is some vagueness to the regs concerning this they will have to decide for them selves, knowing the every ranger they run across "could" interpret this differently