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Arkansas Fishing Regulations
Fishing Access Info: Free Fishing Days: - June 10 - June 12, 2026
- Noon June 10 - Midnight June 12
- Freshwater license waived for residents.
- Non-resident license waived
Fishing URLs: Fish Catch Rules: Fish Limits: - Game Fish Daily Limits
SPECIES DAILY LIMIT
Alligator gar - 2
*Black bass (largemouth, spotted, smallmouth combined) - 10
Smallmouth bass (note length limit) - 4
Rock bass - 10
Bream over four inches long (bluegill, redear, longear, warmouth and other sunfishes combined) - 50
*Catfish - 10
Catfish, bullhead - No limit
*Crappie (black / white / combined)
Note: refer to the crappie zone map 20/30/50
Tiger muskie - 6
Northern pike - 6
*Paddlefish - 2
Pickerel - 6
Sauger - 6
*Saugeye - 6
*Striped bass (including hybrid stripers) - 6
*Trout (rainbow, brown, cutthroat, brook combined) - 6
*Brown trout (Minimum length limit 16 inches) - 2
*Cutthroat trout (Minimum length limit 16 inches)
*Brook trout (Minimum length limit 16 inches) - 2
*Walleye - 6
White bass - 25
Yellow bass - No limit
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DAILY AGGREGATE LIMIT (maximum number of fish allowed to be taken from midnight to midnight) - 75
POSSESSION LIMIT - Double the daily limit
SPEARFISHING LIMIT - Half the daily limit
SNAGGING LIMIT - Half the daily limit
*Check your destination. Some locations have a different size or creel limit for these fish.
DAILY LIMITS AND SIZE RESTRICTIONS - Reflect variations in species productivity and fishing pressure. A daily limit includes the number of fish of one species (or group of species) allowed to be taken from midnight to the next midnight. Fishermen are allowed to have only one daily limit of fish while fishing or returning from a one day fishing trip.
MINIMUM LENGTH LIMIT - The shortest length of a fish of a designated species (measured from the front of the lower jaw with the mouth closed to the tip of the tail with tail lobes pressed together) that an angler may keep. Fish not meeting the minimum length requirement for a particular water or species must be released immediately into the water where caught. The purpose of a minimum length limit is to maintain a consistent breeding population of fish where natural reproduction does not keep up with fishing pressure.
PROTECTED SLOT LIMIT - A limit which prohibits anglers from keeping fish within a designated size range of a species and which requires those fish to be released immediately into the waters where caught. The purpose of establishing protected slot limits is to promote fish growth to larger sizes.
FISH CLEANING - While fishing in waters designated as having a length or slot limit on any kind of fish, you may not possess a fish that has been filleted or had its head or tail removed. Check your destination to see whether length or slot limits apply.
USING LIVE FISH FOR BAIT - You may not use game fish other than bream for bait. Bait fish are minnows, carp, shad, gar, drum and bowfin. European rudd or silver, black or bighead carp cannot be used in Arkansas waters. During daylight hours, you may take baitfish using seines under 50 feet with 1/4 inch mesh, traps or lifts with 1/4 inch mesh and with a throat size of 2 inches or less, cast nets with 1 inch (or smaller) mesh, trawl nets with 1 inch mesh, glass or plastic jug traps with a 1/2 inch (or smaller) throat. While fishing, dip nets may be used day or night to take baitfish.
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