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SPECIAL AREA REGULATIONS
In addition to general fishing regulations, statewide species regulations and Department fishing area rules, this section addresses
special regulations that apply to public fishing waters. If a species or body of water is not listed, refer to statewide regulations.
Adair Park Prohibited methods: snagging Caney River Channel and/or blue catfish: six
Adair County between April 15-May 15 in the Below Hulah Lake dam combined per day. Motors (electric
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031 Arkansas River from Zink Dam for Fishing Contact: (580) 762-2248 or combustion) are prohibited.
800 feet downstream.
Fees & Facilities: (918) 696-7143 In the tailwaters area immediately Game Warden: (918) 331-5798, Allowed methods: up to two rods
and reels per person, bowfishing.
Game Warden: below Webbers Falls Lock and (918) 857-5557, (918) 640-0316
(918) 431-2539, (918) 431-2546 Dam; bowfishing, gigs, spears, Prohibited methods: Bowfishing Elmer
Allowed Methods: One rod and spearguns and snagging is prohbited from Hulah dam Kingfisher County
reel per person. prohibited in the first 1,000 feet. downstream 1,200 feet to the Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663
Trotlines, throwlines, limblines, reregulation dam, gigs, spears,
American Horse juglines and yo-yos are prohibited spearguns and snagging Game Warden: (405) 368-0887
Blaine County below Webbers Falls Lock and Dam prohibited from Hulah dam Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or
Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663 for a distance of one mile. downstream to the confluence of blue catfish: six combined per day.
old and new river channels. (Also
Allowed methods: up to two rods
Game Warden: (580) 623-0206 Black Kettle WMA see Tailwaters regulations pg. 27) and reels per person, bowfishing.
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or Roger Mills County Carl Albert
blue catfish: six combined per day. Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663 Elmer Thomas
Allowed Methods: Up to two rods Fees & Facilities: (580) 497-2143 Le Flore County Comanche County
and reels per person, bowfishing. Game Warden: (580) 497-6897 Fishing Contact: (918) 297-0153 Fishing Contact: (580) 529-2795
Arbuckle Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or Fees & Facilities: (918) 567-3434 Fees & Facilities: (580) 442-5854
Murray County blue catfish: six combined per day. Game Warden: (918) 429-3910, Game Warden: (580) 695-7535
(918) 431-2559, (918) 513-0814
Fishing Contact: (580) 924-4087 Prohibited methods: trotlines, Allowed Methods: Rod and reel Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or
Fees & Facilities: (580) 622-7234 throwlines, limblines, yo-yos, only. blue catfish: six combined per day.
juglines.
Game Warden: (580) 618-0044 Blue River PFHA Carl Blackwell Allowed methods: rod and reel
only.
Daily/Size Limits: Crappie: 15 Payne County
combined per day, must be 10 Johnston County Eufaula
inches or longer. Fishing Contact: (580) 920-5773 Fishing Contact: (580) 762-2248 McIntosh, Okmulgee and Pittsburg
Arcadia Game Warden: (580) 320-2948, Fees & Facilities: (405) 372-5157 Counties
Fishing Contact: (405) 379-5408
Oklahoma County (580) 320-2950 Game Warden: (405) 747-0505 Fees & Facilities: (918) 484-5135
Fishing Contact: (405) 325-7288 Daily/Size Limits: Spotted bass: Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, Game Warden: (918) 617-0326,
must be 14 inches or longer.
Sauger and saugeye: six
Education Area: (405) 990-9753 Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day/18-inch (918) 617-0126, (918) 625-5971,
Fees & Facilities: (405) 216-7470 combined per day. All crappie: six minimum. (918) 625-6013, (918) 429-3908,
Game Warden: (405) 203-3176, combined per day, no size limit. Prohibited Methods: Noodling (918) 470-5097
(405) 343-5489, (405) 203-3178 Allowed methods: one rod and Carl Etling Prohibited methods: snagging is
reel per person during trout season
Daily/Size Limits: Striped bass (other times up to two rods and Cimarron County closed for one mile below Eufaula
Dam.
and/or striped bass hybrids: five reels per person).
combined per day, of which only Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663 Lake Eufaula State Park
two may be 20 inches or longer. Note: For more trout regulations, Game Warden: (580) 651-9133 Pickens Lake: Fishing open only
see page 17.
Additional Restrictions: Walk-in Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or to residents under 16 or 65 and
fishing is allowed year-round on the Bluestem Lake blue catfish: six combined per day. older, or those 60 percent or more
Arcadia Lake shoreline within the Osage County Allowed methods: up to two rods disabled, or legally blind and those
conservation area. Fishing is not and reels per person, bowfishing. accompanying. Fishing limited to
allowed on the ponds or wetland Fishing Contact: (580) 762-2248 Cast nets may be used to take only two rods and reels per person.
areas. Game Warden: bait for personal use. No other fishing methods allowed.
(918) 440-9880, (918) 331-5798, Kid's Fish Out Lake: Fishing
Arkansas River (918) 381-4099, (580) 761-4097 Dahlgren open only to persons under 16 or
Keystone Dam downstream to the Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger Cleveland County 64 and older, or those 60 percent
Arkansas state line
and saugeye: six combined per Fishing Contact: (405) 325-7288 or more disabled, or legally blind
Fishing Contact: (918) 299-2334 day/18-inch minimum. or physically impaired and one
from Keystone Dam downstream to Game Warden: companion. Fishing limited to only
Muskogee Turnpike bridge. Burtschi (405) 323-7863, (405) 850-9757 two rods and reels per person. No
(918) 683-1031 from Muskogee Grady County Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or other method of fishing allowed.
Turnpike bridge downstream to the Fishing Contact: (580) 529-2795 blue catfish: six combined per day.
Arkansas state line. Allowed methods: up to two rods Evans Chambers
Game Warden: (918) 625-4873, Game Warden: (405) 779-1479 and reels per person, bowfishing. Beaver County
(918) 625-4691, (918) 640-0316, Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663
(918) 857-5557, (918) 625-5796, blue catfish: six combined per day. Doc Hollis Game Warden: (580) 651-9135
(918) 625-5085 Allowed methods: up to two rods Greer County
Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger and reels per person, bowfishing. Fishing Contact: (580) 529-2795 Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or
blue catfish: six combined per day.
and saugeye: six combined per Game Warden: (580) 450-7706
day/16-inch minimum, including Allowed methods: up to two rods
all reservoirs and unimpounded Daily/Size Limits: All largemouth and reels per person, bowfishing.
tributaries from Keystone Dam bass must be returned to the
downstream to the Oklahoma water unharmed immediately after
state line. being caught (no harvest allowed).
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