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• Youth Annual Fishing License - $5 (valid for Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North
ages 16 and 17 for 365 days) Dakota, Ohio, Texas or Wisconsin.
Nonresidents • Nonresidents 65 and older who are resi-
• Annual Fishing License - $55 (valid for 365 days) dents of Texas. (Valid ID required.)
• 6-Day Fishing License - $35 (valid six consec-
utive days of choice) Residents and Nonresidents
• 1-Day Fishing License - $15 (valid one day • Any person legally blind or physically
of choice) impaired who is unable to properly use fish-
ing apparatus and one accompanying com-
EXEMPT FROM FISHING panion while the blind or physically impaired
LICENSE REQUIREMENT person is fishing.
• People under 18 who are in legal and phys-
Residents
ical custody of the State of Oklahoma or its
• Residents under 16 years old.
agencies by court order.
• Resident owners or tenants, their spouses,
• People under 18 who are in the custody of a
parents, grandparents, children and
their spouses, grandchildren and
their spouses who fish in private
ponds on land owned or leased by KAYLEE HERRIMAN/PROVIDED
such owner or tenant.
• Resident disabled veterans with 60
percent or more disability. Call State
Department of Veterans Affairs,
(888) 655-2838 to acquire proof of
exemption.
• Any person who fishes with pole and
line, trotline or throw line in streams,
natural ponds and mine pits in or
forming the boundary of the county
in which he is a bona fide resident,
when using any bait other than com-
mercial or artificial bait, blood, stink
bait, cut fish, and shrimp.
• Residents having a proven disabil-
ity rendering them nonambulatory
and who must use a wheelchair as
child care facility as defined by Title 10 O.S., Bowfishing is a form of
certified by a duly qualified physician. angling that is growing
Section 402. in popularity. The activity
• The following people are exempt from the
• People fishing during Oklahoma’s Free requires a regular fishing
purchase of the Land Access Permit required license in Oklahoma.
Fishing Days.
only for Honobia Creek and Three Rivers
• Any patient of a state institution in Oklahoma
WMAs: Any Oklahoma resident who on the
established for the care and treatment of
first day of the current calendar year was
mental illness or alcohol or drug dependen-
younger than 18, or anyone 64 or older. All
cy or any person developmentally disabled
nonresidents are required to purchase an $85
residing in any group home or other insti-
annual Land Access Permit (no exemptions).
tution or persons developmentally disabled
when accompanied by an attendant of such
Nonresidents
institution or legal guardian or when fishing
• Nonresidents under 14 years old.
on institutional property.
• Nonresidents under 16 years old who reside
• Job Corps trainees of this state, having a
in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas,
proper identification card.
California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia,
• Any person participating in an aquatic edu-
Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
cation event or clinic sanctioned by the
Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New
Wildlife Department.
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