Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 002 - Game and Fish Commission › Rule 002.00.17-013 - Trout Fishing Regulations

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
CHAPTER N1.00 - GAME FISH RESTRICTIONS AND LIMITS N1.01
			 Game Fish Daily Limits
N1.01
GAME FISH DAILY LIMITS
Alligator Gar 1
Black Basses (including not more than four Smallmouth) 10
Bream (over 4 inches length) 50
Catfish (except Bullhead) 10
Crappie 30
Rock Bass 10
Muskellunge 6
Paddlefish 2
Pickerel 6
Sauger 6
Saugeye 6
Shovelnose Sturgeon No Limit
Striped Bass or Hybrid (Combination) 6
Trout (including not more than:
2 brown trout, 2 cutthroat trout, 2 brook trout) 5
Walleye 6
White Bass 25
EXCEPTIONS:
(1) The following bodies of water are
		  restricted to half the daily limit for all sportfish: Horseshoe Bend Pool of
		  the Strawberry River in Izard County. All crappie on Lower White Oak Lake must
		  be released immediately. There is no daily limit for harvest of game fish from
		  Lake Poinsett and Mercer Bayou (Sulphur River WMA).
(2) BLACK BASS (LARGEMOUTH, SPOTTED,
		  SMALLMOUTH):
(A)
Smallmouth bass:
Ozark Zone
(Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay,
			 Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard,
Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Newton, Randolph, Searcy, Sharp,
			 Stone, Van Buren, and
Washington counties) - smallmouth bass minimum length limit of 12
			 inches with a daily limit of four, except Bull Shoals, Beaver, Greers Ferry,
			 Table Rock Lakes and Lake Norfork (see Ex.
1(B) below). Greers Ferry Lake - smallmouth bass minimum length
			 limit of 12 inches, daily limit six.
Ozark Zone Blue Ribbon Streams
- Crooked Creek from
			 Arkansas Highway 101 bridge downstream to the confluence with the White River;
			 between the U.S. Highway 62-412 and
U.S. Highway 62 Spur bridges at Pyatt - smallmouth bass minimum
			 length limit 18 inches, daily limit of one. Buffalo River from confluence with
			 Clabber Creek downstream to the confluence with the White River - smallmouth
			 bass minimum length limit 18 inches, daily limit of one. All other water of
			 Crooked Creek and Buffalo River - smallmouth bass minimum length limit of
			 14
inches, daily limit of two.
Ozark Zone Catch-and-Release Area
- Crooked Creek,
			 along boundary of Arkansas Game and
Fish Foundation property near Kelley's Slab Access.
Ozark Zone Quality Streams -
Kings River from
			 Trigger Gap to U.S. Highway 62 bridge smallmouth bass minimum length limit of
			 18 inches, daily limit of one.
All other water of the Kings, Illinois, Spring, South Fork of the
			 Spring and Eleven Point rivers and War Eagle Creek - smallmouth bass minimum
			 length limit of 14 inches, daily limit of two.
Ouachita/Boston Zone
(all Arkansas counties not
			 included in the Ozark Zone) - smallmouth bass minimum length limit of 10
			 inches, daily limit of four.
Ouachita/Boston Zone Quality Streams
- (Mulberry,
			 Caddo above DeGray Lake, DeGray
Lake, Cossatot River, 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) - smallmouth bass minimum length limit of
			 12 inches, daily limit of two.
Ouachita/Boston Zone Catch-and-Release Area
- all
			 smallmouth bass caught in Lake Ouachita including the Ouachita River upstream
			 to the River Bluff access and the South Fork of the
Ouachita River upstream to Hovel Branch must be immediately
			 returned to the stream.
(B)
Largemouth bass
:
Lake Terre Noire and Lake Sylvia - daily limit five.
Lake Millwood - daily limit six.
Mallard Lake - daily limit one.
Marion McCollum Lake, Lake Sylvia - Largemouth bass caught must
			 be immediately returned to the water.
(C)
Black Bass (all species
		  combined)
:
Beaver, Bull Shoals, DeGray, DeQueen, Norfork, Table Rock lakes,
			 Lake Jack Nolen, Ouachita,
Ashbaugh - daily limit six.
Lake Lou Emma - daily limit five.
Lake Atkins - daily limit four.
War Eagle Creek - daily limit two.
(3)
BREAM
:
No limit on bream 4 inches or shorter.
(4)
CATFISH
:
(A) No limit on catfish on Grand Lake -
		  Chicot County, Lake Chicot (including that portion of Connerly Bayou downstream
		  from Connerly Dam to the bayou's mouth and Ditch Bayou from the inlet on Lake
		  Chicot to Ditch Bayou Dam) and between the main levees of the
Mississippi River, from the confluence of the Mississippi/White
			 Rivers upstream to the Benzal Railroad Bridge, and from the confluence of the
			 Mississippi/Arkansas Rivers upstream to the Yancopin Railroad Bridge. No limit
			 on blue and channel catfish from Little River (below Millwood Dam) Red and
			 Sulphur Rivers. No limit on channel catfish on Marion McCollum Lake Greenlee -
			 Monroe County, and on Lake Chicot (including that portion of Connerly Bayou
			 downstream from Connerly Dam to the bayou's mouth and Ditch Bayou from the
			 inlet on Lake Chicot to Ditch Bayou Dam).
(B) Catfish daily limit five on:
DeWitt City Park Lake (Arkansas County); Lake Atalanta (Benton
			 County); Hidden Lake (Carroll County); Big Timber Lake and Gurdon Lake (Clark
			 County); Hubble Lake (Clay County); Lake Bailey (Conway County); Lake
			 Cambadelle and Lake Lou Emma (Crawford County); Marion City Park Lake
			 (Crittenden County); Village Creek State Park Lakes (Cross and St. Francis
			 Counties); Lake Bennett (Faulkner County); Lake Clearfork (Garland County);
			 Crowley Ridge State Park Lake and Reynolds Park Lake (Greene County); Newark
			 City Lake (Independence County); Lake June (Lafayette County); Ward City Park
			 Lake (Lonoke County); Hindsville Lake (Madison County); Blytheville City Park
			 Lake (Mississippi County); Donald Branch Fishing Pond (Monroe County); Lower
			 White Oak Lake (Ouachita County); Lake Sylvia (Perry County); Shady Lake (Polk
			 County); Twin Lakes A and B, Camp Ferncliff (Pulaski County); Old Davidsonville
			 State Park Lake (Randolph County); Forrest City Park Lake (St. Francis County);
			 Truman Baker Lake (Scott County); Cave City's Lakes (Sharp County); Gunner Pool
			 and Hayden Bend Pond (Stone County); Devils Den State Park (Washington County);
			 Spring Lake, Kingfisher, Clubhouse Lakes in Petit Jean WMA (Yell County) and
			 posted USDA Forest Service ponds and lakes.
(C) In addition to daily limit, 10 channel
		  catfish under 16 inches may be taken on the Arkansas River.
(D) In addition to daily limit, 10 channel
		  catfish and 10 blue catfish any size may be taken in Lake Erling and Millwood
		  Lake.
(5)
CRAPPIE
:
(A) Crappie daily limit
		  - 15 in Beaver, Table Rock, Bull Shoals, Norfork reservoirs, Cane Creek Lake
		  (Lincoln County), and Gurdon Lake (Clark County) and Dr. Lester Sitzes III Bois
		  d'Arc Lake.
(B) Crappie daily limit
		  - 50 between the main levees of the Mississippi River, from the confluence of
		  the Mississippi/White Rivers upstream to the Benzal Railroad Bridge, from the
		  confluence of the Mississippi/Arkansas Rivers upstream to the Yancopin Railroad
		  Bridge and on Horseshoe Lake (Crittenden County).
(C) Crappie daily limit - 20 in Lake Chicot
		  and Lake Monticello.
(6)
WALLEYE
:
(A) Beaver Lake and its
		  tributaries; Table Rock Lake and its tributaries to Beaver Dam; Bull Shoals
		  Lake, and Norfork Lake - minimum length limit of 18 inches, daily limit
		  four.
(B) Greers Ferry Lake and its
		  tributaries - protected slot limit of 20-28 inches, daily limit of six (only
		  one of which may be longer than 28 inches).
(C) In compliance with Addendum N1.02 and
		  Code Chapter
		  28.00.
(7)
WHITE BASS, STRIPED BASS, HYBRID
		  STRIPED BASS
:
(A) White bass:
Between the main levees of the Mississippi river, from the
			 confluence of the Mississippi and White rivers upstream to the Benzal Railroad
			 Bridge, and from the confluence of the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers upstream
			 to the Yancopin Railroad Bridge - daily limit of 50, possession limit of 100.
			 Beaver Lake and its tributaries; lakes Ashbaugh, Sequoyah and Monticello - no
			 limit.
(B) Striped bass and
		  hybrid striped bass (combined): Beaver, Bull Shoals and Norfork lakes; lakes
		  Maumelle and Ouachita - daily limit three. Arkansas River and connecting lakes
		  - daily limit 10. Lake Monticello - no limit.
(8)
ALLIGATOR GAR
:
Alligator gar longer than 36 inches may not be harvested from
			 noon, May 1- noon, July 1,
statewide. Alligator Gar Permit is required to harvest alligator
			 gar (Code 26.28).
(9)
TROUT (BROOK, BROWN, CUTTHROAT, RAINBOW)
:
(A)
Brown trout
:
White River from Bull Shoals Dam to Highway 58 Bridge (Bull
			 Shoals Tailwater) and North Fork White River (Norfork Tailwater) - minimum
			 length 24 inches, daily limit one; only one of trout daily limit may be longer
			 than 14 inches. Spavinaw Creek (Benton County) west of Arkansas Highway 59 and
			 Spring River - minimum length 16 inches, daily limit two. Little Red River from
			 Greers Ferry Dam to Arkansas Highway 305 Bridge (Greers Ferry Tailwater) -
			 daily limit of five (only one of trout daily limit may be longer than 16
			 inches). White River from Beaver Dam to boundary signs at Houseman Access
			 (Beaver Tailwater) - protected slot limit of 13-16 inches, daily limit of five
			 (only one of trout daily limit may be longer than 16 inches). Little Missouri
			 River from Narrows Dam to Arkansas Highway 27 Bridge (Narrows Tailwater) - all
			 brown trout must be released immediately.
(B)
Cutthroat trout
:
White River from Bull Shoals Dam to Highway 58 Bridge (Bull
			 Shoals Tailwater), North Fork White River (Norfork Tailwater) - minimum length
			 24 inches, daily limit of one; only one of trout daily limit may be longer than
			 14 inches. Spavinaw Creek (Benton County) west of Arkansas Highway 59, Spring
			 River - minimum length 16 inches, daily limit of two. Little Red River from
			 Greers Ferry Dam to Arkansas Highway 305 Bridge (Greers Ferry Tailwater) - only
			 one of trout daily limit may be longer than 16 inches. White River from Beaver
			 Dam to boundary signs at Houseman Access (Beaver Tailwater)
- protected slot limit of 13-16 inches (only one of trout daily
			 limit may be longer than 16 inches).
(C)
Brook trout
:
White River from Bull Shoals Dam to Highway 58 Bridge (Bull
			 Shoals Tailwater), North Fork White River (Norfork Tailwater) - minimum length
			 14 inches, daily limit of one; only one of trout daily limit may be longer than
			 14 inches. Spavinaw Creek (Benton County) west of Arkansas Highway 59, Spring
			 River - minimum length 14 inches, daily limit two. Little Red River from Greers
			 Ferry Dam to Arkansas Highway 305 Bridge (Greers Ferry Tailwater) - only one of
			 trout daily limit may be longer than 16 inches. White River from Beaver Dam to
			 boundary signs at Houseman Access (Beaver Tailwater) - protected slot limit of
			 13-16 inches (only one of trout daily limit may be longer than 16
			 inches).
(D)
Rainbow
		  trout
:
Lake Atalanta (Benton County) - daily limit of five. White River
			 from Bull Shoals Dam to Highway 58 Bridge (Bull Shoals Tailwater), North Fork
			 White River (Norfork Tailwater) - daily limit of five (only one of trout daily
			 limit may be longer than 14 inches). Little Red River from Greers Ferry Dam to
			 Arkansas Highway 305 Bridge (Greers Ferry Tailwater) - daily limit of five
			 (only one of trout daily limit may be longer than 16 inches). White River from
			 Beaver Dam to boundary signs at Houseman Access (Beaver Tailwater) - protected
			 slot limit of 13-16 inches, daily limit of five (only one of trout daily limit
			 may be longer than 16 inches).
All fish measurements must follow procedures listed in Code
			 01.00-C Length Limit definition.