The following fishing methods are illegal:

• Jagging or foul hooking fish;
• Keeping prohibited size fish (they should be returned to the water unharmed);.
• Selling recreational catch;
• Using a gaff to take fish or using setlines, spearguns, spears, bows and arrows, chemicals or poisons, explosives or firearms or traps and nets to take fish (other than the lawful use of yabby traps, hoop nets or a shrimp trap as per the regulations);
• Using frogs, live finfish (including carp), live birds, live mammals, prohibited size fish or salmon roe or products containing them, as bait;
• Altering the length of any fish with a size limit by filleting or removing the head (other than by gutting or by removing the gills or scale) until you are well away from the water. This does not apply at areas normally used for the cleaning of fish (boat ramp cleaning tables) or if the fish are for immediate consumption or for immediate use as bait. Note. Fish with a size limit must be of legal size before they can be used as bait;
• Removing tails, heads or claws from crayfish in, on or adjacent to waters or to keep any crayfish with eggs or to remove those eggs;
• In notified trout waters, in addition to the illegal fishing methods described above, it is illegal to use handlines (rods and lines only are permitted), traps and nets (other than hoop nets in Lakes Eucumbene and Jindabyne as per the regulation or a landing net for retrieving legally hooked fish), a light or a hand to take Atlantic salmon or trout;
• Taking Murray crayfish in notified trout waters or in Blowering Dam;
• Accessing any waters across private property to fish without permission (in most cases you may fish in any stream from a boat or while walking on the streambed, regardless of who owns the adjacent land. However, you must get the owner's permission to cross private land or walk along the bank adjacent to a stream).