Page 39 - 2021 2022 Oklahoma Fishing & Hunting Regulations

UNLESS LISTED, refer to statewide regulations.
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Methods: Fishing limited to rod and Robbers Cave Daily/Size Limits: Striped bass fish (any fish hooked other than
reel only; no noodling allowed. Latimer County and striped bass hybrids (does not inside the mouth) unless taken
include white bass): five per day, of in a tailwater open to snagging
Ponds (WMAs) Fishing Contact: (918) 297-0153 which only two may be 20 inches (non-game fish only). Bowfishing
Statewide Fees & Facilities: (918) 465-2565 or longer. prohibited except at Eufaula,
Fishing Contact: (405) 521-3721 Game Warden: (918) 471-9447 Sooner Fort Gibson, Heyburn, Hudson,
Keystone and Wister. Bowfishing is
Game Warden: (405) 522-0871 (Carlton, Coon Creek and Noble and Pawnee Counties open on Thunderbird past the first
(Within Wildlife Department Wayne Wallace Lakes) Fishing Contact: (580) 762-2248 75 feet from the dam. Gigs, spears
Management Areas) Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or Fees & Facilities: (405) 553-2919 and spearguns prohibited, except
at Hudson. Snagging prohibited,
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day. Game Warden: (580) 370-0700, except at Fort Gibson tailwaters.
blue catfish: six combined per day. Methods: Fishing limited to only (918) 645-6116 Each angler must keep their fish
Methods: Fishing limited to only two rods and reels per person. Daily/Size Limits: Striped bass: separate, marked with their name
two rods and reels per person. Fishing limited to rod and reel and 5 per day, minimum length of 20 and customer ID number or lifetime
Fishing limited to rod and reel and bowfishing. No other method of inches; others must be returned license number when fishing in
bowfishing. No other method of fishing allowed. to the water immediately. Walleye, tailwaters, except at Wister, where
fishing allowed. each angler must keep their fish
(From Carlton Lake Dam sauger and saugeye: six combined
Note: Ponds and creeks within downstream 1.5 miles to the per day/18-inch minimum. separate, marked with their name
Honobia Creek and Three Rivers State Park boundary) Methods: Fishing limited to rod and customer ID number or lifetime
Wildlife Management Areas require Methods: Fishing limited to one and reel, bowfishing and noodling. license number when fishing below
special permits. All resident rod and reel per person during trout No other method of fishing allowed. the dam down to the second set of
anglers, except those under 18 season (other times no more than Fishing is prohibited from dam, power-lines at the confluence of the
years of age on the first day of the two rods and reels per person). No fenced area below dam, and north old and new river channels. Wister
current calendar year or are 64 other method of fishing allowed. bank of intake channel. Fishing in tailwater is closed to noodling from
years old or older, and all non- the buoy-marked intake channel, below the dam down to the second
resident anglers regardless of Note: For more trout regulations, discharge channel and spillway set of power-lines at the confluence
age must possess a Land Access see page 22. embankment is bank fishing only of the old and new river channels.
Permit to fish and/or hunt on either Robert S. Kerr (no float tubes or wading). Snagging of paddlefish or any fish is
the Honobia Creek or Three Rivers closed from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. year-
Wildlife Management Areas. Haskell, Muskogee and Sequoyah Stanley Draper round east of I-35 and north of I-40,
Counties except the Miami City Park from the
Raymond Gary Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031 Cleveland and Oklahoma Counties south boat ramp to the 125 Highway
Choctaw County Fees & Facilities: (918) 775-4475 Fishing Contact: (405) 325-7288 bridge which shall remain open.
Fishing Contact: (918) 297-0153 Game Warden: (918) 429-3123, Fees & Facilities: (405) 297-1426 Bureau of Reclamation
Game Warden: (580) 317-5000 (918) 429-3122, (918) 625-4873, Game Warden: (405) 850-9757, tailwaters
Fishing closed year-round at
(405) 323-7863, (405) 343-5489,
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or (918) 625- 4691, (918) 431-2544, (405) 203-3176, (405) 203-3178 Arbuckle, Fort Cobb and Foss.
blue catfish: six combined per day. (918) 431-2550 Methods: Fishing limited to no Fishing closed for the first 75 feet
Methods: Fishing limited to only (Includes oxbows and cutoffs) more than three rods and reels per from dam at Altus-Lugert, McGee
two rods and reels per person. Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger person, with no more than three Creek, Thunderbird and Tom Steed.
Fishing limited to rod and reel and and saugeye: 16-inch minimum. hooks per line (treble hooks are Bowfishing, noodling, trotlines,
bowfishing. No other method of considered one hook). Bowfishing throwlines, limblines, juglines and
fishing allowed. Schooler is permitted year-round during yo-yos are prohibited on the Salt
Rivers & Streams Choctaw County daylight hours only. No other Fork of the Arkansas River from the
spillway of Great Salt Plains Lake
Statewide Fishing Contact: (918) 297-0153 method of fishing allowed, including downstream to State Highway 38
castnetting.
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031 Game Warden: (580) 317-5000 Taft Bridge.
Game Warden: (405) 522-0871 Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or Muskogee County Tenkiller
blue catfish: six combined per day.
Statewide: It is unlawful to take or Cherokee and Sequoyah Counties
possess more than 25 nongame Methods: Fishing limited to only Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031 Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
fish harvested from a river or two rods and reels per person. Game Warden: (918) 625-4873,
stream, excluding shad and species Fishing limited to rod and reel and (918) 625-4691 Fees & Facilities: (918) 487-5252
of special concern I and/or II (see bowfishing. No other method of Methods: Fishing limited to only Game Warden: (918) 431-2552,
page 14). fishing allowed. two rods and reels per person. (918) 431-2562, (918) 431-2544,
Private Properties: Landowner Shell Lake Fishing limited to rod and reel. No (918) 431-2550
consent must be obtained to utilize Osage County other method of fishing allowed. (Downstream from Horseshoe
lands with rivers and/or creeks Bend boat ramp to dam)
flowing through them. Fishing Contact: (580) 762-2248 Tailwaters
Game Warden: (918) 331-5798, Statewide Daily/Size Limits: Largemouth and
Daily/Size Limits: Black bass smallmouth bass: six combined per
(largemouth, smallmouth, and (918) 381-4099, (918) 440-9880, Fishing Contact: (405) 521-3721 day. Largemouth and smallmouth
spotted): six combined per day, only (918) 761-4097 Game Warden: (405) 522-0871 bass between 13 and 16 inches
one of which may be a smallmouth Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger must be released. All crappie:
bass. Largemouth and smallmouth and saugeye: six combined per First 1,000 feet below any 15 combined per day/10-inch
bass must be 14 inches or longer. day/18-inch minimum. federal or Grand River Dam minimum.
No size limit on spotted bass. Skiatook Authority dam
Fishing limited to only two rods
Scenic Rivers: Use or possession and reels per person, except at Methods: Prohibited methods
of fishing: gigs and spears
of a cast net is illegal on Baron Fork Osage County Wister, where no person may fish downstream from Horseshoe Bend
Creek, Flint Creek, Illinois River, Lee Fishing Contact: (580) 762-2248 with more than two rods and reels boat ramp: speargunning legal
Creek, Little Lee Creek and Upper Fees & Facilities: (580) 396-3170 per person when fishing below when used with scuba, except
Mountain Fork River. the dam down to the second set
Game Warden: taking flathead catfish from June 15
(918) 331-5798, (918) 381-4099, of power-lines at the confluence through July 15 is prohibited.
(918) 440-9880, (918) 761-4097 of the old and new river channels.
Unlawful to keep a foul-hooked
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