Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 002 - Game and Fish Commission › Rule 002.00.06-007 - 2007 Fishing Regulations

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
SECTION
		  31.00
- SPORT FISHING
31.01B
GAME FISH POSSESSION LIMIT
		  RESTRICTIONS
. It shall be unlawful to possess more than two (2) daily
		  limits of game fish or the aggregate thereof.
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
½ daily limit
EXCEPTIONS:
(1)
LARGEMOUTH, SPOTTED, SMALLMOUTH (BLACK
		  BASS):
(A) Ozark Zone
		  (Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard,
		  Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Newton, Randolph, Searcy, Sharp, Stone, Van Buren,
		  and Washington counties) - smallmouth bass minimum length limit 12 inches with
		  a daily limit of 4, except Bull Shoals Lake, Beaver Lake, Lake Norfork, and
		  Table Rock Lake (see exception 1(B) below).
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 Point
rivers) - 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.
(B)
		  Black Bass daily limit - six (6) on Beaver Lake, Bull Shoals, DeQueen Lake,
		  Norfork Lake, Lake Ouachita and Table Rock Lake, five (5) on Lake Lou Emma -
		  Crawford County, and four (4) on
Lake Atkins
; Largemouth bass daily limit - five (5) on Grandview Lake #2,
eight (8)
in Lower White Oak Lake and one
		  (1) on Mallard Lake and the Little Missouri River; (Reference Code
31.02A (12)
, Black Bass Length Limits and
		  Protective Slot Limits on Certain Lakes).
(C) Largemouth bass caught must be
		  immediately returned to the water in Lake Greenlee in Monroe County, Lake
		  Sylvia in Perry County, Bois d'Arc Lake and Lake Ashbaugh in Greene
		  County.