Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 002 - Game and Fish Commission › Rule 002.00.11-010 - 2011-2012 Waterfowl Regulations and Season Dates; 2011-2012 Fishing Regulations; Revised Code Book and Addendum

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
2012 Fishing Regulation Consideration List
(Red language is to be added. are to be deleted.)
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 - Alligator
						Gar..........................
1
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 -
						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 - Shovelnose
						Sturqeon......
... No Limit
Daily Aggregate
						Limit................................
75
Daily Limit for all sportfish on Dr. Lester Sitzes III Bois d'Arc
			 Lake in Hempstead County &
Horseshoe Bend Pool,
			 Strawberry River in Izard County
½ daily
			 limit
EXCEPTIONS;
(1)
LARGEMOUTH. SPOTTED,
		  SMALLMOUTH (BLACK BASS):
(A) 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 4, except Bull Shoals Lake, Beaver Lake, Greers Ferry 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.
Smallmouth bass
		  minimum length limit on Buffalo River 18 inches with a daily limit of 1 from
		  confluence with Clabber Creek downstream to the confluence with the White
		  River.
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, Illinois.Spring, South
			 Fork/Spring and Eleven Point rivers and War Eagle Creek) - 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 of 18 inches and
			 daily limit of 1.
Ouachita/Boston Zone (all Arkansas counties not included in the
			 Ozark Zone) - smallmouth bass minimum length limit of10 inches with a daily
			 limit of 4.
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
			 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 and the South Fork of the Ouachita River upstream to Hovel Branch
			 must be immediately returned to the stream.
(B) Black Bass daily limit - six (6) on
		  Beaver Lake, Bull Shoals, DeQueen Lake, Lake Jack Nolen, Norfork Lake, Lake
		  Ouachita, Lake Ashbaugh in Greene County and Table Rock Lake, five (5) on Lake
		  Lou Emma - Crawford County, and four (4) on Lake Atkins; Largemouth bass daily
		  limit -six (6) on Millwood Lake, five (5) on Grandview Lake #2, eight (8) in
		  Lower White Oak Lake and Lake Columbia, and one (1) on Mallard Lake, o tle iri
		  Rir.; Smallmouth bass daily limit is six (6) on Greers Ferry Lake.
(C) Largemouth bass caught must be
		  immediately returned to the water in Marion McCollum Lake in Monroe County,
		  Lake Sylvia in Perry Countyeiis d'ake and Lake Hindsville in Madison County.