Arkansas Administrative Code
Agency 002 - Game and Fish Commission
Rule 002.00.01-006 - 2001-2002 Late Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations; Fishing Regulations for 2002
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 2, February 2024
12.15 DUCK, COOT AND MERGANSER SEASON RESTRICTIONS. It shall be unlawful to take or attempt to take ducks or coots other than from November 17-December 20, 2001 and December 26, 2001-January 20, 2002.
EXCEPTIONS:
PENALTY: $200.00 to $1,000.00.
12.18 SNOW, BLUE, ROSS' AND WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE SEASON RESTRICTIONS. It shall be unlawful to take or attempt to take Snow, Blue Ross' and white fronted-geese other than from November 7, 2001-January 31, 2002;
PENALTY: $200.00 to $1,000.00.
12.20 CANADA GOOSE SEASON RESTRICTIONS. It shall be unlawful to take or attempt to take Canada geese other than from January 9-January 31, 2002, from one-half hour before sunrise to sunset, statewide. Areas closed to Canada goose hunting within the state are: Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge Migratory Bird Closure Zone, Corps of Engineers' parks (except Lead Hill Park on Bull Shoals Lake), other parks, and within 200 yards of a human residence or park boundary and all waterfowl rest areas on all Wildlife Management Area.
PENALTY: $200.00 to $1,000.00.
12.23 FALCONRY SEASON RESTRICTIONS. It shall be unlawful to take or attempt to take migratory birds with raptors other than during the regular migratory bird seasons except as follows DUCKS, COOTS and MERGANSERS: December 21-25, 2001 and January 21-February 15, 2002.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
12.25 SPECIAL YOUTH WATERFOWL HUNT RESTRICTIONS. It shall be unlawful for anyone other than youths, 15 years of age or younger, to hunt ducks, in season geese, mergansers and coots during the special youth waterfowl hunt on January 26-27, 2002. Youths who have completed a hunter education course must be accompanied by an adult mentor who is 18 years of age or older. Youths who have not completed a hunter education course must be accompanied by an adult mentor who is 21 years of age or older. Mentors may not hunt ducks, mergansers or coots but may, if properly licensed, hunt other game in season. Shooting hours and bag limits are the same as the regular waterfowl season. One Canvasback per day may be taken during the special youth waterfowl hunt.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
13.06 MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS SHOOTING HOUR RESTRICTIONS. It shall be unlawful to take or attempt to take any migratory game bird, including migratory waterfowl, other than one-half (1/2) hour before sunrise (local time) or later than sunset (local time).
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
13.08 HARVEST INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS. Effective July 1,1999, it shall be unlawful for any person (resident or non-resident) to hunt migratory game birds in Arkansas without a Harvest Information Requirements (HIP) permit. Also, proof of Arkansas registration must be carried at all times when hunting migratory birds. The 2000-2001 permit expired June 30, 2001. It shall be unlawful to take or attempt to take migratory game birds without first completing the current annual HIP questionnaire and obtaining a current HIP permit. This permit is not valid in any state other than Arkansas.
EXCEPTIONS:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
25.01 MIGRATORY WATERFOWL SHOOTING HOUR RESTRICTIONS WITHIN CERTAIN WMAs AND WDAs. It shall be unlawful to take or attempt to take migratory waterfowl during migratory waterfowl seasons later than 12:00 o'clock noon on Wildlife Management Areas.
EXCEPTIONS:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00
01.00-C DEFINITION OF TERMS. For the purposes of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Code of Regulations, the following terms shall be construed, respectively, to mean and include:
ADULT GOBBLER - Male turkeys having at least one of the following characteristics:
ALLIGATOR DEALER - Any person, firm or corporation engaging in the sale, purchase, barter, or exchange of an American alligator (Alligator mississippiens is) or other crocodilian species, or any part, nest or eggs thereof in the State of Arkansas.
ALLIGATOR FARMER - Any person, firm or corporation possessing an American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) or other crocodilian species, or any part, nest or eggs thereof in the State of Arkansas for the purpose of propagation production or rearing.
ALLIGATOR SNAPPING TURTLE DEALER - Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the sale or purchase of alligator snapping turtles.
ALLIGATOR SNAPPING TURTLE FARMER - Any person, firm or corporation possessing alligator snapping turtles for the purpose of propagation, production or rearing.
ANIMAL - An organism of the animal kingdom, as distinguished from the plant kingdom, including any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof.
ANTLERLESS DEER - Any deer (buck or doe) having both antlers less than two inches in length.
ANTLERLESS ELK - Any elk (male or female) not meeting requirements to be a legal bull elk
AQUATIC WILDLIFE - Crawfish, Aquatic Turtles, Fish or Minnows.
ARKANSAS RIVER BOUNDARY (Sportfishing Only): The Arkansas Post Canal from Lock and Dam #1 to the Arkansas River and the Arkansas River from Dam #2 upstream to the Oklahoma state line including all lakes, bays and tributary streams accessible by boat from the main channel except that portion of Big Bayou Meto upstream from Hwy 11, Plum Bayou upstream from Hwy 79, Little Maumelle River upstream form Pinnacle State Park, Maumelle River upstream from Lake Maumelle Dam, Fouche LaFave upstream from Hwy 113, Palarm Creek upstream from Interstate 40, Cadron Creek upstream from the weir, Point Remove Creek upstream from Hwy 113, Petit Jean River upstream from Pontoon Boat Ramp at Hwy 154, Illinois Bayou upstream from Russellville Waterworks Dam, Big Piney and Little Piney Creeks upstream from Hwy 359, Horsehead Creek upstream from Interstate 40, Mulberry River upstream from Interstate 40, Frog Bayou upstream from Hwy 162 and Lee Creek upstream from Lee Creek Dam, and from the first non-navigable shoal for streams entering the Arkansas River along the left bank ascending from Lake Dardanelle Dam to the Oklahoma State Line.
ARTIFICIAL LURE/FLY - Terminal fishing tackle made by the method of fly tying, or made entirely of rubber, wood, metal, glass, feathers, hair, synthetic fibers, or plastic, with hook attached.
BAG LIMIT - The number of species allowed to be taken in a time period - 24 hours (12 o'clock midnight to 12 o'clock midnight) unless otherwise specified.
BAITFISH - Minnows, shad, and bream 4" and under.
BAITING - The direct or indirect placing, exposing, depositing, distributing, or scattering of salt, grain, or other feed that could serve as a lure or attraction for wildlife to, on, or over any areas where hunters are attempting to take them.
BLACK BASS: Largemouth bass, redeye bass, smallmouth bass, and spotted bass.
BREAM - Any species of a genus Lepomis to include bluegill, redear, warmouth, or sunfish.
BUCK (Legal Statewide and Wildlife Management Areas) - A deer having at least one antler with at least three points, each a minimum of one inch long. A deer having at least one antler with at least four points, each a minimum of one inch long on Bayou Meto, Cut-Off Creek, Dagmar, Grandview Prairie, Henry GrayHurricane Lake, Lafayette County, Rex Hancock/Black Swamp, Trusten Holder and Wattensaw WMAs and U of A Pine Tree Experimental Station WDA.
BUCK (Legal - on National Wildlife Refuges) - A deer having a minimum of two (2) inch hardened bone antler.
BUCK DEER SEASON - Any deer season whereby no deer other than legal buck deer may be taken.
BULL ELK (legal) - Any elk having at least one antler visible above the hair line.
BUY- To purchase, barter, exchange, or trade and includes any offer to purchase, barter, exchange, or trade.
CAPTIVITY or HOLD CAPTIVE- The holding of living wildlife in a controlled environment that is manipulated by man for the purpose of exercising ownership, possession or control of the wildlife, and that has boundaries designed to prevent selected species from entering or leaving the controlled environment.
CASE - A container specifically designed for the purpose of housing a gun which completely encloses such gun by being zipped, snapped, buckled, tied or otherwise fastened with no portion of the gun exposed.
CATCH-AND-RELEASE - The requirement that fish of a designated species musts be immediately released into the water where caught.
CHUMMING - To dislodge or deposit any substance not attached to a hook which may attract fish.
CITY, COUNTY, STATE, OR FEDERALLY MAINTAINED ROAD - Any road graded or otherwise repaired by any city, county, state, or federal agency in the state of Arkansas.
COMMERCIAL FISH - Bowfin, buffalo, catfish, carp, drum, gar, paddlefish, sucker family, white amur, and sturgeon.
COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN - Any person who fishes with tackle designated as commercial tackle requiring a license and/or tag issued by the Commission.
COMMERCIAL SHOOTING RESORT - Any person, firm, or corporation engaged, for pay or other consideration, in the business of providing commercially-obtained or pen-raised birds for harvest by hunters.
COMMISSION - The Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission, unless otherwise designated.
DOE DEER SEASON - Same as either-sex season.
DROWNING SET - Any leg hold trap that utilizes one or more of the following techniques to retain the target animal in water of suitable depth for drowning. These are:
ENCLOSE - To surround species of wildlife on all sides using man-made barriers, including but not limited to fencing, walls, structures or other devices, so that the wildlife are not free to leave a particular environment.
ENCLOSURE - Any area surrounded by a man-made barrier, including but not limited to fencing, walls, structures or other devices that prevent wildlife from leaving a particular environment.
ENDANGERED SPECIES - any wildlife species or subspecies endangered or threatened with extinction listed by the U. S. Department of Interior and the following native species hereby designated in Arkansas:
MAMMALS:
Gray bat (Myotis grisescens), Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), Ozark big-eared bat (Plecotis townsendi ingens), Florida panther, (Felis concolor coryi)
BIRDS:
Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), Arctic peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius), least tern (Sterna antillarum), Bachman's warbler (Vermivora bachmanii), ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), red-cockaded woodpecker (Dendrocopos borealis)
REPTILES:
American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis),
FISHES:
Ozark cavefish (Amblyopsis rosae), leopard darter (Percina pantherina), pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhyncus albus);
MOLLUSKS:
Curtis' pearly mussel, (Epioblasma florentina curtisi), fat pocketbook pearly mussel (Potamilus capax), pink mucket mussel (Lampsilis orbiculata), turgid blossom mussel (Epioblasma turgidula), speckled pocketbook mussel (Lampsilis streckeri), Arkansas fatmucket mussel (Lampsilis powelli), winged mapleleaf mussel (Quadrula fragosa), Magazine Mountain shagreen land snail (Mesodon magazinensis);
ARTHROPODS:
Cave crayfish (Cambarus zophonastes) and (Cambarus aculabrum;
PLANTS:
Geocarpon minimum (no common name), pondberry, (Lindera melissifolia)
FEE LAKE - A lake in which there is a charge for fishing privileges. All persons 16 years of age and older must possess an Arkansas fishing license. Creel limits apply.
FIREARMS, LOADED - Firearms shall be considered to be loaded if shells or cartridges are in either the chamber, magazine, or cylinder; percussion cap muzzle-loading firearms are considered loaded if the percussion cap is on the nipple; flintlock muzzle-loading firearms are considered to be loaded if there is powder in the flashpan.
FISH or FISHING - To lure, attract, collect, or pursue fish species or aquatic wildlife for the purpose of taking or attempting to take such fish species or aquatic wildlife by any method.
FISH FARM - Waters and adjacent premises confined within a pond, tank, or lake not connected with public waters, and under management by a commercial fish farmer.
FISH FARMER - Any person, firm, partnership or corporation engaged in the propagation and/or production of crawfish, fish and/or minnows for sale.
FREEFLOATING FISHING DEVICE - Any floating fishing device unanchored or unattached to a stationary object.
FURBEARING ANIMALS - Badger, beaver, bobcat, civet cat, coyote, gray fox, red fox, mink, muskrat, nutria, opossum, raccoon, river otter, skunk, and weasel.
GAFFING FISH - Taking or attempting to take fish with a hand held or handled hook prior to being caught on hook and line.
GAME ANIMALS - Black bear, bobcat, coyote, deer, elk, fox, mink, opossum, rabbit, raccoon, and squirrel.
GAME BIRDS - Turkey, quail, pheasant, chuckar, and all birds classified by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as migratory game birds.
GAME FISH: Alligator gar, black bass, white bass, striped bass, striped bass hybrid, crappie, catfish, trout, bream, sunfish, goggle-eye, walleye, northern pike, muskellunge, sauger, paddlefish, and pickerel.
GUIDE - A person who helps or aids, for hire, another person to hunt or fish.
HIGH FENCE ENCLOSURE - An enclosure that contains an area of at least 500 contiguous acres, with at least sixty percent (60%) of the acreage in forested cover that has been classified as timberland by the local county tax assessor, that has a perimeter fence atleast eight (8) feet high, with no cross fencing that has the effect of reducing the size of the area to less than 500 contiguous acres with at least sixty percent (60%) of the acreage in forested cover as herein provided.
HUNT or HUNTING - To search for, pursue, chase, track, lure, attract, or lie in wait of game animals or other wildlife for the purpose of taking or attempting to take such game animals or wildlife by any method.
HUNTING PARTY - Two or more persons hunting together.
IMPORT - To land on, bring into, or introduce into any place within the jurisdiction of the State of Arkansas.
JAKE - Sub-adult turkeys having all of following characteristics:
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. All fish not meeting the minimum length requirement for a particular water or species must be immediately released into the water where caught.
KILLING DEVICE - Any firearm, bow and arrow, crossbow, pellet gun, or any other device capable of killing wildlife.
MINNOWS - small nongame fish commonly used for bait and include bluntnose, bullhead minnows, chubs, dace, darters, fatheads, killifish, small carp, small goldfish, shiners, and stonerollers.
MOBILITY IMPAIRED - Individuals who are permanently and totally mobility impaired in accordance with criteria on the Game and Fish application for the mobility impaired card.
NIGHT - thirty (30) minutes after sunset to thirty (30) minutes before sunrise.
NONGAME WILDLIFE - all wildlife other than furbearing or game animals, birds and fish.
NON-RESIDENT - Any person not defined as resident.
NUISANCE ANIMALS - Any wild animal creating a problem by committing damage to personal property (Depredation Permit available).
NUISANCE FURBEARING ANIMALS - Beaver, muskrat, and nutria.
OPEN SEASON - that season during which protected wildlife may be lawfully taken.
PEN-RAISED QUAIL - Quail that are hatched from eggs of quail raised in captivity in pens or cages.
PERSON - Any individual, firm, corporation, association, or partnership in singular or plural as the context requires.
POSSESS or POSSESSION - To have under control. The manual or ideal custody of wildlife or anything that may be the subject of property, for one's use and enjoyment, either as owner or as the proprietor of a qualified right in it, and either held personally or by another who exercises it in one's place and name. Possession includes the act or state of possessing and that condition of facts under which one can exercise his power over a corporeal thing at his pleasure to the exclusion of all other persons. Possession includes constructive possession, which means not actual but assumed to exist, where one claims to hold by virtue of some title, without having actual custody.
PROTECTED SLOT LMIT - A species/size limit which prohibits anglers from keeping fish within a designated size group, and requires fish of that size and species to be immediately released into the water where caught.
PROTECTED WILDLIFE - all wildlife in the state unless a declared open season has been established by the Commission.
PUT AND TAKE PAY LAKE - Private waters open to public fishing for a fee, after being licensed by the Commission and where no fishing license or daily limit of fish is imposed.
RAPTOR - Any migratory bird of the Order Falconiformes or the Order Strigiformes except bald or golden eagle.
RESIDENT - Any person who has established a bona fide or actual residence of at least 60 days prior to applying for a license, and who declares intentions of becoming a citizen of Arkansas. Also, the following students, carrying proof of full-time enrollment in schools, colleges or universities while hunting or fishing in Arkansas, are eligible to purchase a resident license:
ROUGH FISH - All fish not declared to be game fish.
SELL - To exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent; to offer for sale, barter, exchange, or trade or the act of selling, bartering, exchanging or trading.
SHELL BUYER - Anyone who buys mussels or mussel parts from a Taker. An agent purchasing for a licensed buyer is not a buyer.
SNAGLINE - Commercial tackle consisting of a horizontal line with hooks or drops less than 24 inches apart.
TACKLE - Any rod, reel, pole, line, net, yo-yo, seine, or any other apparatus or device used to take fish.
TAKE - To shoot, kill, injure, trap, net, snare, spear, catch, capture, or reduce to possession.
TAXIDERMY - The art of preparing, stuffing and/or mounting of wildlife and parts thereof.
TRANSLOCATION - To ship, convey, carry or transport wildlife from one location to another by any means, including importation, exportation, interstate and intrastate movement.
Trout - Any members of the Salmonidae family including rainbow trout, brown trout, brook trout, lake trout, and cutthroat trout.
WATERS OF THE STATE - All streams, lakes, sloughs, bayous, marshes, or any other water wholly or partially within the State. Pay lakes and fish farms are excluded from the above.
WILD - to be living in a state of nature and not domesticated.
WILDLIFE - All wild birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians and other wild aquatic forms, and all other wild animals, regardless of classification, whether resident, migratory or imported, protected or unprotected, dead or alive, and shall extend to and include any and every part of any individual species of wildlife, including animals living in a captive state and which lack a genetic distinction from members of the same species living in the wild.
WILDLIFE COMMERCIAL HUNTING RESORT - A Wildlife Commercial Hunting Resort is any facility, location, business or operation that is engaged in selling for money or any other consideration the opportunity to hunt or attempt to hunt captive wildlife.
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA (WMA) - Designated areas set aside by the Commission and distinguished by certain markers and considered a separate zone with regard to wildlife regulations. (Referred to as "WMA", "WDA", "FTA" or "NWR").
ZONE - Any area defined or delineated by the Commission where hunting and/or fishing activities are regulated for that specific area.
31.01A GAME FISH DAILY LIMIT RESTRICTIONS. It shall be unlawful to take and retain more than the daily or aggregate limit of game fish while fishing from shore, boat or while transporting fish by boat, and returning from a one-day fishing trip. (See 01.00-C Definition and Terms for Bag Limit)
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 - Trout (including not more than 2 each of brown, cutthroat, and brook trout. |
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 largemouth bass, bluegill and catfish on Cane Creek Lake from Oct. 19, 2000 through Feb. 1, 2001 |
½ daily limit |
Daily Limit for all sportfish on Bois d'Arc in Hemstead County |
½ daily limit |
EXCEPTIONS:
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, 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 upsteam to the River Bluff access area and Little Missouri River from Lake Greeson Dam to the Ouachita River must be immediately returned to the stream.
Brown Trout daily limit - 4, only one of which may be 21 inches and over, with a protected slot limit from 16 to 21 inches in length in Little Red River.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
31.02 GAME FISH LENGTH LIMITS AND PROTECTIVE SLOT LIMITS ON CERTAIN LAKES AND RIVERS
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.
31.03 TROUT PERMIT REQUIREMENT: It shall be unlawful for persons 16 or more years of age to retain trout from state waters, or to fish on Beaver Lake tailwaters, from Beaver Dam to Hwy. 62 bridge; Little Red River, from Greers Ferry Dam to Hwy 305 bridge; North Fork River, entire stream; Spavinaw Creek (Benton County) east of Hwy. 59; and White River, from Bull Shoals Dam to Hwy 58 bridge at Guion without first obtaining and validating by signature, a current trout permit.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00
31.04 GIGGING OF GAME FISH PROHIBITED. It shall be unlawful to gig game fish at any time.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
31.05 HOGGING, NOODLING, AND SNAGGING GAME FISH PROHIBITED. It shall be unlawful to hog, noddle or snag game fish except as specified herein:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
31.06 BAITING WITH GAME FISH PROHIBITED. It shall be unlawful to use game fish, or parts thereof, for bait or lures.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
31.07 SALE OF GAME FISH PROHIBITED. It shall be unlawful to buy, sell, or possess for sale any game fish.
EXCEPTIONS:
PENALTY: $500.00 to $1,000.00.
31.08 SAL E OF BAIT PROHIBITED. It shall be unlawful to take from public waters of the state and sell, or offer for sale as fishing bait, any wildlife species or portions thereof other than insects, freshwater shrimp, worms, frogs, minnows, shad, mussels, crayfish, and bream under 4 inches.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00
31.09 YO-Y0 FISHING RESTRICTIONS. It shall be unlawful for a person to fish more than 30 yo-yos (or other mechanical fishing devices) or to leave such unattended (out of sight or hearing) at any times or to suspend more than one (1) yo-yo or mechanical device from any horizontal line, wire, limb or support. These regulations shall apply to all yo-yos left in place whether "set" or "tripped" (disabled).
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $50.00 to $1,000.00.
31.10 FREEFLOATING FISHING DEVICES RESTRICTIONS. It shall be unlawful for a person to fish in excess of twenty (20) freefloating fishing devices (jugs) and to fail to attend said devices at all times. All freefloating fishing devices shall be plainly labeled, on durable material, with the name and address, or vehicle operator's license number, or current vehicle license number (registered to the FFD user) of the person using such equipment.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
31.11 TROTLINE FISHING REQUIREMENTS. It shall be unlawful to use any trotline with drops or hooks less than twenty-four (24) inches apart statewide, or to use any trotline or snagline below any Lock and Dam on the Arkansas River from the Dam to the nearest arrival point navigation marker downstream, or to fail to run trotlines and remove catch daily. Unattended lines shall be removed and destroyed by Commission Officers. It shall also be unlawful for an angler to fish any more than 100 hooks at any time between the main levees of the Mississippi River. (Refer to Code 32.08, Waters Restricted to Certain Fishing Tackle, and Code 32.15, Cotton Line Anchoring Requirements.)
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
31.12 HERDING TROUT PROHIBITED. It shall be unlawful on any trout stream in Arkansas to drive, pursue, harass or rally trout with the use of boats, wading, throwing objects, disturbing with noises, or by any other means for the intended purpose of concentrating or congregating trout.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
31.13 CHAIN DRAGGING ON NORTH FORK RIVER PROHIBITED. It shall be unlawful to drag chains or other objects from boats, capable of destroying aquatic vegetation, on North Fork River in Baxter County.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
31.14 TRANSFER OF TROUT BY GUIDES RESTRICTED. It shall be unlawful for licensed Commercial Guides to transfer to any other person his trout catch so that the recipient's legal daily or possession limit is exceeded.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
31.15 TACKLE RESTRICTIONS FOR TROUT STREAMS. It shall be unlawful to use more than two rods or poles per individual or to fail to attend rods or poles at all times in the following designated areas:
EXCEPTIONS:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
31.16 SPECIAL RESTRICTIONS ON TROUT WATERS. Baits such as marshmallows, salmon eggs, and moldable substances (Power Bait® and Zeke's Gold® types) are not allowed. Only artificial lures with one single up to three barbless hooking points per pole may be used, except from 100 yards below Bull Shoals Dam to the upstream boundary of Bull Shoals State Park where a single barbless treble hook (three barbless hooking points on a common shank) may be used. All trout caught must be immediately returned to the stream in the following waters:
31.17 BROWN TROUT RESTRICTIONS ON WHITE RIVER. It shall be unlawful to retain brown trout in possession in the White River, from the wing dike at the Bull Shoals State Park Trout Dock to downstream boundary of Bull Shoals State Park: catch and release only for brown trout from November 1 to January 31. This area is closed to night (30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise) fishing from November 15, 1996 through January 31, 1997 and November 1 through January 31 thereafter. It is also unlawful to use tackle other than artificial lures or flies with a single, barbless hook when fishing for any species in the above described waters during the November 1 - January 31 period.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
31.18 POSSESSION OF FILLETED FISH PROHIBITED ON LENGTH/SLOT LIMIT WATERS. It shall be unlawful to possess filleted fish or fish with head or tail removed while fishing from shore, boat, or transporting fish by boat on length/slot limit waters as described in Code 31.01, Game Fish Daily and Possession Limit Restrictions, Exception (11) and Code 31.02, Black Bass Length Limits and Protective Slot Limits.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
31.19 URBAN FISHING PROGRAM RESTRICTIONS. It shall be unlawful to fish in the following waters except as specified herein:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
31.20 COMMUNITY FISHING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM RESTRICTIONS. It shall be unlawful to fish in the following waters except as specified herein:
PENALTY: $100.00 TO $1,000.00
31.21 CHUMMING PROHIBITED. It shall be unlawful to chum in all trout waters designated as "Catch and Release" areas.
(Ref: Code 31.16).
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
Section 41.00 Commercial Fishing Regulations
EXCEPTIONS:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
RED RIVER in Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River and Miller counties; LITTLE RIVER from its mouth in Hempstead and Little River counties upstream to Corps of Engineers boat ramp on west bank of river below Millwood Lake Dam;
SULPHUR RIVER from its mouth to the Texas State line, OUACHITA RIVER from the Louisiana State Line to the confluence of the Caddo River (See Exception 2 below), Saline River from its confluence with the Ouachita River upstream to the Stillion Railroad Bridge in Ashley and Bradley Counties, FOURCHE LAFAVE RIVER from its mouth to Highway 7 Bridge in Perry County; PETIT JEAN RIVER from its mouth to Highway 10 Bridge in Yell County; WHITE RIVER upstream from its mouth to one hundred (100) yards below Dam No. 1 at Batesville in Independence County; BLACK RIVER from its mouth to the Missouri state line; ST. FRANCIS RIVER upstream to the mouth of the left hand chute of Little River in Poinsett County; CACHE RIVER and lakes accessible by boat from the river. 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 Commission Codes 41.09, 41.19, and 41.20) and 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).
EXCEPTION:
EXCEPTION:
Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway, Crawford, Faulkner, Franklin, Fulton, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Howard, Independence, Izard, Logan, Johnson, Madison, Marion, Montgomery, Newton, Perry, Pike, Polk, Pope, Saline, Scott, Searcy, Sebastian, Sevier, Sharp, Stone, Van Buren, Washington and Yell counties. 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, unless closed in other 41.00 and 44.00 codes.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $500.00
PENALTY: $100.00 to $500.00.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
It shall be unlawful for commercial fishermen to possess game fish while engaged in commercial fishing or while possessing commercial tackle or commercial fish.
EXCEPTIONS:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00 and fishing privileges may be suspended in accordance with Code 11.05, Revocation of Privileges.
It shall be unlawful for commercial fishermen to possess catfish or buffalo fish less than 16 inches in length taken from public waters, at any time of year. Commercial fishermen may not take paddlefish (spoonbill) less than 30 inches in body length (measured from front of eye to fork of tail), or less than 24 inches blocked out (head removed immediately behind gills), from public waters during the period of Noon November 1 through Noon on the last day of February. There is no length limit on paddlefish the rest of the year.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00 and fishing privileges may be suspended in accordance with Code 11.05, Revocation of Privileges.
EXCEPTIONS:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
It shall be unlawful to commercially fish trotlines, throw lines, limb lines or snaglines in Corning Lake or Long Lake in Clay County.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
It shall be unlawful to use commercial tackle of any type from Noon, March 1 through Noon, November 30 in the waters of Dardanelle Lake north of the Missouri Pacific Railroad in Pope, Johnson and Franklin Counties, Dardanelle Bay in Yell County, and south of signs posted on Shoals Bay, Cane Creek Bay, Six Mile Creek at O-Kane Island Access, and south of Highway 22 in Delaware Bay in Logan County.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
It shall be unlawful to fish, in any manner, for commercial purposes on the Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
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.
It shall be unlawful to use any slat type fish trap or fiddler size net in public waters listed in Commission Code 41.24 other than as specified herein:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
It shall be unlawful to commercial fish in Nimrod Lake other than Noon, October 1 to Noon, March 1 and Blue Mountain Lake other than from Noon, October 1 to Noon, March 1. All common carp caught must be removed from these lakes. Commercial fishermen must register prior to fishing with the local district fisheries biologist and must submit monthly catch records to the local district fisheries biologist by the 15th of the following month. Legal sized gill and trammel nets or larger only.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00 and revocation of commercial fishing privileges in Blue Mountain and Nimrod Lakes for non-compliance with requirements.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
EXCEPTION:
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00, and revocation of fishing permit for Harris Brake Lake.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00, and revocation of fishing permit for Lake Atkins.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.