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PROTECTYOURWATERS PUBLIC FISHING WATERS (SPECIAL AREA REGULATIONS)

is bank fishing only (no float tubes TENKILLER THUNDERBIRD VINCENT
or wading).
Cherokee and Sequoyah Counties Cleveland County Ellis County
STANLEY DRAPER Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031 Fishing Contact: (405) 325-7288 Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663
Cleveland and Oklahoma Counties Fees & Facilities: (918) 487-5252 Fees & Facilities: (405) 360-3572 Game Warden: (580) 860-4967
Fishing Contact: (405) 325-7288 Game Warden: (918) 431-2552, Game Warden: (405) 850-9757, Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or
Fees & Facilities: (405) 297-1426 (918) 431-2562, (918) 431-2544, (405) 323-7863 blue catfish: six combined per day.
Game Warden: (405) 850-9757, (918) 431-2550 Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger Allowed methods: up to two rods
(405) 323-7863, (405) 343-5489, (Downstream from Horseshoe and saugeye: six combined per and reels per person, bowfishing.
(405) 203-3176, (405) 203-3178 Bend boat ramp to dam) day/18-inch minimum. WATONGA
Allowed methods: up to three Daily/Size Limits: All crappie: Prohibited methods: bowfishing, Blaine County
rods and reels per person, with 15 combined per day/10-inch gigging, spearing, spearguns,
no more than three hooks per line minimum. snagging, and noodling within the Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663
(treble hooks are considered one Little River upstream of Franklin Game Warden: (580) 623-0206
hook). Bowfishing during daylight Prohibited methods: gigs and Road in Cleveland County. Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or
spears downstream of Horseshoe
hours only.
Bend boat ramp. Speargunning is UPPER ILLINOIS RIVER blue catfish: six combined per day.
TAFT legal when used with scuba, except AND TRIBUTARIES Allowed methods: only one rod
Muskogee County taking flathead catfish from June 15 Includes Barren Fork Creek and and reel per person during trout
through July 15 is prohibited.
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031 Flint Creek season (other times up to two rods
and reels per person), bowfishing.
Game Warden: (918) 625-4873, TEXOMA Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
(918) 625-4691 Bryan, Johnston, Love and Marshall Game Warden: Note: For additional trout
regulations, see page 17. The dam
Allowed methods: up to two rods Counties (918) 431-2552, (918) 431-2562 at Watonga will be under repair until
and reels per person. Fishing Contact: (580) 924-4087 Daily/Size Limits: Illinois River further notice. For more information
Fees & Facilities: (903) 465-4990 upstream from Horseshoe Bend visit www.wildlifedepartment.com
TAILWATERS boat ramp, Barren Fork Creek and
Statewide Game Warden: (580) 320-2956, Flint Creek; black bass (largemouth, WEBBERS FALLS
(580) 320-2957, (580) 320-2948,
Fishing Contact: (405) 521-3721 (580) 320-2950, (580) 276-7193, smallmouth, and spotted): six Muskogee County
combined per day, only one of
Game Warden: (405) 522-0871 (580) 320-2951, (580) 320-2959 which may be a smallmouth bass. Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
First 1,000 feet below any federal Note: Fishing regulations may Largemouth and smallmouth bass Fees & Facilities: (918) 487-5252
or Grand River Dam Authority dam differ between Oklahoma and must be 14 inches or longer. No Game Warden: (918) 625-4873,
At Wister, the tailwater designation Texas portions of Lake Texoma. size limit on spotted bass. (918) 625-4691
extends downstream to the second Check the Texas Fishing Guide for Prohibited methods: snagging and
set of powerlines at the confluence details. noodling. Bowfishing, speargunning, Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger
and saugeye: six combined per
of the old and new river channels. Daily/Size Limits: Largemouth, and gigging are prohibited, except day/16-inch minimum.
Fishing limited to only two rods smallmouth and spotted bass: five for the following methods/seasons:
and reels per person. Unlawful combined per day/14-inch minimum Upstream from the Horseshoe W.D. MAYO
to keep a foul-hooked fish (any for largemouth and smallmouth Bend boat ramp to State Highway Le Flore and Sequoyah Counties
fish hooked other than inside the bass. Striped bass and/or striped 51/U.S. 62 bridge: Gigging is Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
mouth) unless taken in a tailwater bass hybrids: 10 combined per day, permitted from Dec. 1 to March 1.
open to snagging (non-game fish of which only two may be 20 inches Speargunning is permitted from Fees & Facilities: (918) 775-4475
only). Bowfishing prohibited except or longer. White bass: 25 per day/no Dec. 1 to March 31. Bowfishing is Game Warden: (918) 429-3910,
at Eufaula, Fort Gibson, Heyburn, size limit. All crappie: 37 combined permitted from June 1 to March 31 (918) 431-2559, (580) 513-0814,
Hudson, Keystone and Wister. per day/10-inch minimum. Flathead in the Upper Illinois River only. (918) 431-2544, (918) 431-2550
Bowfishing is open on Thunderbird catfish: five per day/20-inch
past the first 75 feet from the minimum. The attempt to take or Upstream from State Highway (Includes oxbows, cutoffs, and
dam. Gigs, spears and spearguns harvest alligator gar is prohibited 51/U.S. 62 bridge: Gigging, below dam to state line)
prohibited, except at Hudson. May 1-31. Alligator gar harvest must bowfishing and speargunning are Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger
Snagging prohibited, except at Fort be reported within 24 hours via permitted from Dec. 1 to March 31. and saugeye: six combined per
Gibson tailwaters (see additional E-Check at wildlifedepartment.com. Possession or use of cast nets day/16-inch minimum.
snagging regulations on pages 11 Texas Side: During May, no person prohibited.
and 16). Each angler must keep their shall take alligator gar from, or WICHITA MOUNTAINS WR
fish separate, marked with their possess alligator gar while on, the UPPER POTEAU RIVER AND Comanche County
name and customer ID number or Red River (including Lake Texoma) FOURCHE MALINE RIVER Fishing Contact: (580) 529-2795
lifetime license number when fishing and all tributaries that drain directly AND TRIBUTARIES
in tailwaters. Wister tailwater is or indirectly to the Red River on the Le Flore County Fees & Facilities: (580) 429-3222
closed to noodling. Texas/Oklahoma border in Cooke, Game Warden: (580) 695-7535
Grayson, Fannin, Lamar, Red River, Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Bureau of Reclamation tailwaters and Bowie counties. Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or
Fishing closed year-round at Game Warden: blue catfish: six combined per day.
Arbuckle, Fort Cobb and Foss. THOMAS A. BAMBERGER SR. (918) 429-3910, (918) 431-2559,
Fishing closed for the first 75 feet WMA (BARREN FORK CREEK) (580) 513-0814 Allowed methods: rod and reel only.
from dam at Altus-Lugert, McGee Prohibited methods: gigs, spears,
Creek, Thunderbird and Tom Steed. and spearguns.
Bowfishing, noodling, trotlines, Adair County VANDERWORK
throwlines, limblines, juglines Fishing Contact: Streams Program
and yo-yos are prohibited on the Fisheries Office (918) 683-1031. Washita County
Salt Fork of the Arkansas River Game Warden: (918) 431-2546, Fishing Contact: (580) 529-2795
from the spillway of Great Salt (918) 431-2539. Game Warden: (580) 515-4484
Plains Lake downstream to State Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or
Highway 38 Bridge. Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or
blue catfish: six combined per day. blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods Allowed methods: up to two rods
and reels per person. and reels per person, bowfishing.
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