002.00.06 Ark. Code R. 007
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 10, October, 2024
Daily Limit - Black Basses(including not more than four Smallmouth). | 10 |
Daily Limit - Rock Bass ............................ | 10 |
Daily Limit - Catfish(exc. Bullhead) .......... | 10 |
Daily Limit - Bream(over 4"in length) ....... | 50 |
Daily Limit - Crappie ................................ | 20 |
Daily Limit - Muskellunge ........................ | 6 |
Daily Limit - Pickerel ................................ | 6 |
Daily Limit - Northern Pike ....................... | 6 |
Daily Limit - Sauger .................................. | 6 |
Daily Limit - Saugeye ............................... | 6 |
Daily Limit - Striped Bass or Hybrid Combination ......................... | 6 |
Daily Limit - Walleye ................................ | 6 |
Daily Limit - White Bass ........................... (Yellow Bass - No Limit) | 25 |
Daily Limit - Paddlefish ............................. | 2 |
Daily Limit - Alligator Gar .......................... | 2 |
Daily Aggregate Limit ................................ | 75 |
Daily Limit for all sportfish on Bois d'Arc in Hempstead County | 1/2 daily limit |
EXCEPTIONS:
Ozark Zone Blue Ribbon Streams (Crooked Creek and Buffalo River) - smallmouth bass minimum length limit of 14 inches with a daily limit of 2. Smallmouth bass minimum length limit on Crooked Creek 18 inches with a daily limit of 1: from 101 bridge downstream to the confluence with the White River; between the Hwy 62-412 and Hwy 62 Spur bridges at Pyatt.
Ozark Zone Catch and Release Area - Crooked Creek, along boundary of Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation property near Kelly's Slab Access. Ozark Zone Quality Streams (Kings, Spring, South Fork/Spring and Eleven Pointrivers) - smallmouth bass minimum length limit of 14 inches with a daily limit of 2, except on Kings River from Trigger Gap to Hwy 62 bridge: minimum length limit 18 inches and daily limit of 1. Ouachita/Boston Zone (all Arkansas counties not included in the Ozark Zone) - smallmouth bass minimum length limit of 10 inches with a daily limit of 4.
Ouachita/Boston Zone Quality Streams (Mulberry, Caddo above DeGray Lake, DeGray Lake, Ouachita River upstream from Lake Ouachita, Ouachita River downstream from Remmel Dam, Saline River, including its four headwater forks in Saline, Perry and Garland counties, South Fork/Ouachita, Little Missouri above Lake Greeson and Lake Greeson) - smallmouth bass minimum length limit of 12 inches with a daily limit of 2. Ouachita/Boston Zone Catch-and-Release Area - all smallmouth bass caught in Lake Ouachita including the Ouachita River upstream to the River Bluff access area must be immediately returned to the stream.
ON CERTAIN LAKES AND RIVERS
16", or 2 under 16"). Limit on other game fish is one half the statewide daily limit.
EXCEPTION:
EXCEPTION:
NOTE: Measure all fish from the front end of the lower jaw to the tip of the tail with fish laid flat on rule, mouth closed and tail lobes pressed together. PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
EXCEPTION:
Bob Kidd Lake, Devil's Den State Park Lake, Lake Elmdale, Lake Fayetteville, Wilson Lake (Washington County); Crystal Lake (Benton County); Lake Leatherwood (Carroll County); Lake Hindsville (Madison County); Lake Cargill, Lake Overcup (Conway County); Lake Barnett and Tom's Lake (White County); Lake Conway (Faulkner County); Harris Brake Lake (Perry County); Lake Atkins (Pope County); Sugarloaf Lake (Sebastion County); Truman Baker Lake, Lake Hinkle (Scott County); Lake Wilhelmina, Irons Fork Lake (Polk County); Gurdon Lake (Clark County); Cox Creek Lake (Grant County); Gillham Lake, Dierks Lake (Howard County); DeQueen Lake (Sevier County); Dr. Lester Sitzes III Bois d'Arc Lake, Rick Evans/Grandview Prairie WMA Lakes 1 and 2, Mike and Janet Huckabee Lake (Hempstead County); Lake Columbia (Columbia County); Upper and Lower White Oak Lakes (Ouachita County); Tri-County Lake (Calhoun County); Lake Monticello (Drew County); Cane Creek Lake (Lincoln County).
(Conway), Camp Robinson Firing Range on Camp Robinson WMA, Lake Village Community Fishing Pond, Pine Bluff Regional Park Youth Fishing Pond, Landers Lake (Little Rock) and Craighead Forest Park Youth Fishing Pond (Jonesboro):
EXCEPTIONS:
PENALTY: $100.00 To $1,000.00.
It shall be unlawful to take any fish other than rough fish with bow and arrow or gig.
EXCEPTIONS:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative Hydroelectric Plant at Barling and the Murray Hydroelectric Plant at North Little Rock.
EXCEPTION:
Cross and St. Francis counties; Devil's Den State Park Lake -Washington County; and posted U.S. Forest Service ponds and lakes. Wattensaw WMA ponds and lakes, except oxbow lakes in Prairie County, and North Fork Lake in Montgomery County; Spring River and tributaries from 100 yards below Dam No. 1 to the mouth of Myatt Creek; Spring River Lake.
Fourche Lefave River from 100 yards below Nimrod Dam to Hwy 7 bridge.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
It shall be unlawful to take aquatic turtles for commercial purposes by any means other than hoop net or box type turtle traps in the following counties and/or bodies of water:
Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Clay, Columbia, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Dallas, Desha, Drew, Grant, Greene, Hempstead, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lawrence (see Exception 4), Lee, Lincoln, Little River, Lonoke, Miller, Mississippi, Monroe, Nevada, Ouachita, Phillips, Poinsett, Prairie, Pulaski, Randolph (see Exception 4), St. Francis, Saline, Union, White, Woodruff, and the Arkansas River, from its mouth to the Arkansas/Oklahoma state line, including that part of the Arkansas River from the Ozark Dam to the Arkansas-Oklahoma state line, bounded on the north by the Union Pacific Railroad and on the south by Highway 22 (In compliance with Code 41.19). Arkansas waters between the main levees of the Mississippi River. All lakes, bays or other bodies of water, other than tributary streams, connected to waters as specified above, when accessible by boat, from the main channel except as limited by Section 30.00 (Reciprocal License Agreements). When a river or stream forms the boundary between opened and closed counties, that boundary segment shall be open to tackle legal in the open county. EXCEPTIONS:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00. Equipment used in such violations (including but not limited to nets, traps and boats) may be confiscated in accordance with Codes 01.00-D and 01.00-J.
PROHIBITED. It shall be unlawful for permitted aquatic turtle
harvestersto sportfish or possess game fish in the same waters where
the permitteeis engaged in turtle trapping.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00. Second offense shallresult in revocation of the Aquatic Turtle Harvest Permit or Aquatic Turtle Dealer Permit.
EXCEPTION:
Emergency Closure Code 44.01), Pulaski (See Emergency Closure Code 44.01), Randolph, Saint Francis, White, Woodruff and Union (See Emergency Closure Code 44.06) counties. EXCEPTIONS:
EXCEPTION:
NAVIGATION SYSTEM. It shall be unlawful to fish with gill nets, trammel nets, trotlines, snaglines, and hoop nets in waters specified herein:
EXCEPTIONS:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00 and fishing privileges may be suspended in accordance with Code 11.05, Revocation of Privileges.
TYPE FISH TRAPS RESTRICTED TO CERTAIN PUBLIC
WATERS. It shall be unlawful to use or possess fiddler size hoop nets or slat type fish traps in any public waters other than those specified herein:
EXCEPTIONS:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
WHITE RIVER, ARKANSAS RIVER AND BORDER WATERS. It shall be unlawful to commercially take or possess paddlefish (also called spoonbill catfish) or sturgeon, or their parts including eggs (roe), from
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
EXCEPTIONS:
(combination of channel, blue, flathead) per day from the Ouachita River between the confluence of the Little Missouri River and the confluence of the Caddo River while using commercial tackle. Nets must be run daily and catch removed. (Note: See 41.03 E for precedence)
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
/ be unlawful to possess more than two (2) daily limits of game fish or the aggregate thereof.
Daily Limit - Trout - (including not more than 2 each of brown, cutthroat and brook trout)... 5
EXCEPTIONS:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
/ comply with each of the listed restrictions pertaining to a specific body of water as described herein:
Artificial Lures Only Area / No Bait Zonefrom approximately 0.5 mile below Beaver Dam to approximately 100 yards upstream of Parker Bend Access as indicated by signs.
from mouth of Jenkins Creek to the first electric power line downstream.
prohibited.
and must attend them at all times. No other devices shall be used to catch fish.
and must attend them at all times. No other devices shall be used to catch fish.
and must attend it at all times. No other devices shall be used to catch fish.
prohibited.
from May 1 - October 15. Downstream from the upstream boundary of the Riverside Park Access to the gas line crossing above River Ridge Pool.
prohibited.
White River.
anglers. Youth under age 16 must be accompanied by an adult when fishing. Adult disabled anglers must carry proof that they are 100% permanently and totally disabled (see Code 01.00-C) and possess a valid AGFC sport fishing, lifetime fishing, or combination hunting & fishing license, plus a valid trout permit.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00
002.00.06 Ark. Code R. 007