Artificial Lure / Bait?

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It is legal to add attractants, including salt, to an artificial lure as long as you're fishing someplace where bait is legal. Strawberry for example. It's illegal to add scents, attractants, or stimulants where bait is not legal i.e. artificial flies and lures only waters. Ashley Creek, and Barney Lake are the first two examples in the guidebook.

So by law I cannot use a tube jig (by itself mind you) that is pre-treated with salt anywhere that is artificial fly and lure only (i.e. Minersville Reservoir)?

If that is the case I cannot use any tube jig because they are all manufactured with chemicals in some sort or another that could be construed as a chemical fish attractant/stimulant, (i.e.: release agents used in molds, lubricants on hooks and other metal parts).

So, by your impression, is Power Bait an artificial lure, or is it bait? It's man made.

To me a bait is worms, eggs, power bait, corn, etc., salt is not a bait to me, smelly jelly is not a bait to me, both are attractants.

I have yet to find a tube jig that doesn't have oil of some sort on it or salt. So due to the manufacturing process adding salt or adding oil to keep them conditioned in the bags makes them by definition, bait.
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