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PUBLIC FISHING WATERS: : UNLESS LISTED, refer to statewide regulations.
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SPECIAL AREA REGULATIONS
>> Listed in Alphabetical Order = Conservation Passport Area
Texoma Upper Illinois River Vanderwork Webbers Falls
Bryan, Johnston, Love and Marshall and Tributaries Washita County Muskogee County
Counties Includes Barren Fork Creek and Flint Fishing Contact: (580) 529-2795 Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Fishing Contact: (580) 924-4087 Creek Game Warden: (580) 515-4484 Fees & Facilities: (918) 487-5252
Fees & Facilities: (903) 465-4990 Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031 Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or Game Warden:
Game Warden: (580) 320-2956, Game Warden: blue catfish: six combined per day. (918) 625-5085, (918) 625-4873,
(580) 320-2957, (580) 320-2948, (918) 431-2552, (918) 431-2562 Methods: Fishing limited to only (918) 625-4691
(580) 320-2950, (580) 276-7193, Daily/Size Limits: Illinois River two rods and reels per person. Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger
(580) 320-2951, (580) 320-2959 upstream from Horseshoe Bend Fishing limited to rod and reel and and saugeye: six combined per
Note: Fishing regulations may differ boat ramp, Barren Fork Creek and bowfishing. No other method of day/16-inch minimum.
between Oklahoma and Texas Flint Creek; black bass (largemouth, fishing allowed.
portions of Lake Texoma. Check the smallmouth, and spotted): six W.D. Mayo
Texas Fishing Guide for details. combined per day, only one of Vincent Le Flore and Sequoyah Counties
Daily/Size Limits: Largemouth, which may be a smallmouth bass. Ellis County Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Largemouth and smallmouth bass
smallmouth and spotted bass: five must be 14 inches or longer. No size Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663 Fees & Facilities: (918) 775-4475
combined per day/14-inch minimum Game Warden: (580) 334-0480
for largemouth and smallmouth limit on spotted bass. Game Warden: (918) 429-3910,
bass. Striped bass and/or striped Methods: Snagging and noodling Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or (918) 431-2559, (580) 513-0814,
bass hybrids: 10 combined per day, are prohibited at all times. blue catfish: six combined per day. (918) 431-2544, (918) 431-2550
of which only two may be 20 inches Bowfishing, speargunning, and Methods: Fishing limited to only (Includes oxbows, cutoffs, and
or longer. White bass: 25 per day/no gigging are prohibited, except for two rods and reels per person. below dam to state line)
size limit. All crappie: 37 combined the following methods/seasons: Fishing limited to rod and reel and
per day/10-inch minimum. Flathead Upstream from the Horseshoe bowfishing. No other method of Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger
catfish: five per day/20-inch Bend boat ramp to State Highway fishing allowed. and saugeye: six combined per
minimum. The attempt to take or 51/U.S. 62 bridge: Gigging is day/16-inch minimum.
harvest alligator gar is prohibited permitted from Dec. 1 to March 1. Vinita (Bull) Wichita Mountains WR
May 1-31. Alligator gar harvest Speargunning is permitted from Craig County
must be reported within 24 hours Dec. 1 to March 31. Bowfishing is Fishing Contact: (918) 542-9422 Comanche County
via E-Check at wildlifedepartment. permitted from June 1 to March 31 Fishing Contact: (580) 529-2795
com. Texas Side: During May, no in the Upper Illinois River only. Game Warden: (918) 244-2035 Fees & Facilities: (580) 429-3222
person shall fish for, take, or seek to Daily/Size Limits: Largemouth
take alligator gar in that portion of Upstream from State Highway bass: six per day, of which only one Game Warden: (580) 695-7535
Lake Texoma encompassed within 51/U.S. 62 bridge: Gigging, may be longer than 16 inches. Daily/Size Limits: No length limit
bowfishing and speargunning are
the boundaries of the Hagerman permitted from Dec. 1 to March 31. on largemouth or smallmouth bass.
National Wildlife Refuge or that Watonga Channel and/or blue catfish: six
portion of Lake Texoma from the Possession or use of cast nets Blaine County combined per day.
U.S. 377 bridge (Willis Bridge) prohibited. Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663 Methods: Fishing limited to rod
upstream to the I.H. 35 bridge.
Upper Poteau River Game Warden: (580) 623-0206 and reel only. No other method of
Thomas A. and Fourche Maline Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or fishing allowed.
Bamberger Sr. WMA River and Tributaries blue catfish: six combined per day.
(Barren Fork Creek) Le Flore County Methods: Fishing limited to one
Adair County Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031 rod and reel per person during trout
Fishing Contact: Streams Program Game Warden: season (other times no more than
Fisheries Office (918) 683-1031. (918) 429-3910, (918) 431-2559, two rods and reels per person).
Fishing limited to rod and reel and
Game Warden: (918) 431-2546, (580) 513-0814 bowfishing. No other method of
(918) 431-2539. Methods: Prohibited methods of fishing allowed.
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or fishing: gigs, spears and spearguns. Note: For additional trout
blue catfish: six combined per day. regulations, see page 20.
Methods: Fishing limited to only
two rods and reels per person.
Fishing limited to rod and reel only.
No other method of fishing allowed.
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Methods: Within the Little River The Oklahoma Fishing Trail is designed to highlight the best of Oklahoma fishing.
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snagging and noodling.
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