002.00.07 Ark. Code R. 008
Fisheries Proposed Code Book Language for Implementation in 2008
ADULT GOBBLER - Male turkeys having at least one of the following characteristics:
a) tail feathers which are the same length, b) wing feathers that have white barring all the way to the tip or c) a beard more than six (6) inches in length. ALLIGATOR DEALER-Any person, firm or corporation engaging in the sale, purchase, barter or exchange of an American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) or other crocodilian species, or any part, nest or eggs thereof in the State of Arkansas.
ALLIGATOR FARMER - Any person, firm or corporation possessing an American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) or other crocodilian species, or any part, nest or eggs thereof in the State of Arkansas for the purpose of propagation production or rearing. ALLIGATOR SNAPPING TURTLE DEALER - Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the sale or purchase of alligator snapping turtles.
ALLIGATOR SNAPPING TURTLE BREEDER - Any person, firm or corporation possessing alligator snapping turtles for the purpose of propagation, production, rearing or sale. ANIMAL-An organism of the animal kingdom, as distinguished from the plant kingdom, including any part, product, egg or offspring thereof.
ANTLERLESS ELK - Any elk (male or female) not meeting requirements to be a legal bull elk. AQUATIC WILDLIFE - Aquatic Snails, Aquatic Turtles, Crayfish
(Crawfish, Crawdads), Fish (including Minnows), Frogs, Mussels and Salamanders.
ARKANSAS RIVER BOUNDARY (Sportfishing Only): The Arkansas Post Canal from Lock and Dam #1 to the Arkansas River and the Arkansas River from Dam #2 upstream to the Oklahoma state line including all lakes, bays and tributary streams accessible by boat from the main channel except that portion of Big Bayou Meto upstream from Hwy 11, Plum Bayou upstream from Hwy 79, Little Maumelle River upstream from Pinnacle State Park, Maumelle River upstream from Lake Maumelle Dam, Fouche LaFave upstream from Hwy 113, Palarm Creek upstream from Interstate 40,
Cadron Creek upstream from the weir, Point Remove Creek upstream from
Hwy 113, Petit Jean River upstream from Pontoon Boat Ramp at Hwy 154,
Illinois Bayou upstream from Russellville Waterworks Dam, Big Piney and
Little Piney Creeks upstream from Hwy 359, Horsehead Creek upstream from Interstate 40, Mulberry River upstream from Interstate 40, Frog Bayou upstream from Hwy 162 and Lee Creek upstream from Lee Creek Dam,
and from the first non-navigable shoal for streams entering the Arkansas
River along the left bank ascending from Lake Dardanelle Dam to the
Oklahoma state line.
ARTIFICIAL LURE/FLY - Terminal fishing tackle made by the method of fly tying, or made entirely of rubber, wood, metal, glass, feathers, hair,
synthetic fibers or plastic, with hook attached.
BAG LIMIT - The number of species allowed to be taken in a time period -
24 hours (12 o'clock midnight to 12 o'clock midnight) unless otherwise specified.
BAITFISH - Minnows (including bluntnose minnows, bullhead minnows,
bullhead catfish, chubs, crayfish, dace, fatheads, common carp under 6
inches, small goldfish, shiners and stonerollers), logperch (also called sand pike or zebra minnows), shad, gar (other than alligator gar), drum,
bowfin under 6 inches, skipjack herring, silversides (brook and inland),
buffalo (bigmouth, smallmouth and black), river carpsucker, sculpin
(banded and Ozark), bream 4 inches and under, and bream over 4 inches that are caught by hook and line.
BAITING - The direct or indirect placing, exposing, depositing, distributing or scattering of salt, grain or other feed that could serve as a lure or attraction for wildlife to, on or over any areas where hunters are attempting to take them.
BIG GAME - Alligator, bear, deer, elk and turkey.
BLACK BASS - Largemouth bass, redeye bass, smallmouth bass and spotted bass.
BLOCKING OUT - The removal of the head and/or tail associated with the processing of a commercial fish. The blocked-out carcass (bullet)
must be at least the minimum length required for the body of water where the commercial fish was harvested (see Code 41.12 for minimum length limits).
BONUS DEER - A harvested deer that is not included in a hunter's statewide bag limit.
BOX TYPE TURTLE TRAP - A floating trap designed to capture aquatic turtles, but does not permit capture of fish (See Code 39.04 for restrictions).
BREAM - Any species of the genus Lepomis, including bluegill, redear,
warmouth and other sunfish.
BUCK - A male deer (See LEGAL BUCK definition).
BUCK DEER SEASON - Any deer season whereby no deer other than legal buck deer may be taken.
BULL ELK (legal) - Any elk having at least one antler visible above the hair line.
BUY - To purchase, barter, exchange or trade and includes any offer to purchase, barter, exchange or trade.
CAPTIVITY or HOLD CAPTIVE - The holding of living wildlife in a controlled environment that is manipulated by man for the purpose of exercising ownership, possession or control of the wildlife, and that has boundaries designed to prevent selected species from entering or leaving the controlled environment.
CARCASS - The body of a dead animal.
CASE - A container specifically designed for the purpose of housing a gun which completely encloses such gun by being zipped, snapped, buckled,
tied or otherwise fastened with no portion of the gun exposed.
CATCH-AND-RELEASE - The requirement that fish of a designated species must be immediately released into the water where caught.
CERVID - A member of the family Cervidae.
CHASE FOR PLEASURE - To search for, pursue or chase game animals or other wildlife with the use of dogs for recreational purposes only, with no intent of taking or attempting to take such game animals or wildlife through the possession or use of any killing device.
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE (CWD) - Fatal disease affecting the brain of cervids that belongs to a group of diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
CHUMMING - To dislodge or deposit any substance not attached to a hook which may attract fish.
CITY, COUNTY, STATE OR FEDERALLY MAINTAINED ROAD - Any road graded or otherwise repaired by any city, county, state or federal agency in the state of Arkansas.
CLEAN - Having no meat matter or tissue attached to the carcass part.
COMPUTER ASSISTED HUNTING - The use of a computer or any
other device, equipment or software to remotely control the aiming
and discharge of a firearm, bow or crossbow to kill wildlife located in
the state of Arkansas.
COMMERCIAL FISH - Bowfin (over 6 inches), buffalo, catfish, carp,
drum, gar, paddlefish, sucker family, white amur and sturgeon.
COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN - Any person who fishes with tackle designated as commercial tackle requiring a license and/or tag issued by the Commission.
COMMERCIAL WILDLIFE PERMIT(S) - Shall be a term construed to identify each and/or all of the following permits: Alligator Farmer/Dealer
Permit, Alligator Snapping Turtle Breeder/Dealer Permit, Resident Shell
Taker and Seller Permit, Shell Buyer Permit, Non-Resident Shell Buyer
Permit, Resident Roe Taker/Seller Permit, Resident Roe Buyer/Exporter
Permit, Non-Resident Roe Buyer Permit, Resident Fur Dealer Permit,
Non-Resident Fur Dealer Permit, Special Commercial Quail Permit, Game
Bird Shooting Resort Permit, Wildlife Hunting Resort Permit, Wildlife Breeder/Dealer Permit and Wildlife Translocation Permit. COMMISSION - The Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission, unless otherwise designated.
DEFERRED HUNTER EDUCATION - Shall be a term whose
abbreviation DHE (DHE) when dealer imprinted on an Arkansas hunting license/ permit defers completion of hunter education certification while said license/ permit is valid.
DISABLED - Any individual who is 100% permanently and totally disabled as declared by the following federal agencies: the United States Social Security Administration, the United Department of Veteran's Affairs or the United States Railroad Retirement Board. DOE - A female deer.
DOE DEER SEASON - Any deer season whereby a doe may be taken. DROWNING SET - Any leg hold trap that utilizes one or more of the following techniques to retain the target animal in water of suitable depth for drowning. These are:
(1) a slide wire with lock; (2) tangle stake; or (3) drowning weight.
DUCKS (includes the following species) - All species of Teal, Merganser, Whistling Duck and Scaup; American Wigeon, American Black Duck, Bufflehead, Canvasback, Gadwall, Goldeneye, Mallard, Mottled Duck, Northern Shoveler, Redhead, Ring-necked Duck, Ruddy Duck, Northern Pintail and Wood Duck. EITHER-SEX - A male or a female.
EITHER-SEX DEER SEASON - Any deer season whereby a doe or a legal buck may be taken.
ENCLOSE - To surround species of wildlife on all sides using man-made barriers, including but not limited to fencing, walls, structures or other devices, so that the wildlife are not free to leave a particular environment. ENCLOSURE - Any area surrounded by a man-made barrier, including but not limited to fencing, walls, structures or other devices that prevent wildlife from leaving a particular environment. ENDANGERED SPECIES - any wildlife species or subspecies endangered or threatened with extinction listed by the U. S. Department of Interior and the following native species hereby designated in Arkansas: MAMMALS:
Gray bat (Myotis grisescens), Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), Ozark big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii ingens. BIRDS:
Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), least tern (Sterna antillarum), Bachman's warbler (Vermivora bachmanii), red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis), ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis). REPTILES:
American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Currently listed as threatened due only to similarity in appearance to the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus).
FISHES:
Ozark cavefish (Amblyopsis rosae), leopard darter (Percina pantherina), pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhyncus albus); MOLLUSKS:
Scaleshell mussel, Curtis' pearly mussel, (Epioblasma florentina curtisi), fat pocketbook pearly mussel (Potamilus capax), pink mucket mussel (Lampsilis abrupta), turgid blossom mussel (Epioblasma turgidula), speckled pocketbook mussel (Lampsilis streckeri), Arkansas fatmucket mussel (Lampsilis powelli), winged mapleleaf mussel (Quadrula fragosa), Magazine Mountain shagreen land snail
(Inflectarius magazinensis); scaleshell mussel (Leptodea leptodon), Ouachita rock pocketbook mussel (Arkansia wheeleri); ARTHROPODS:
Cave crayfish (Cambarus zophonastes) and (Cambarus aculabrum); INSECTS:
American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus); PLANTS:
Geocarpon minimum (no common name), pondberry, (Lindera melissifolia), Missouri bladderpod (Lesquerella filiformis), Harperella (Ptilimnium nodosum), Eastern prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera leucophaea), running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum); FEE LAKE - A lake in which there is a charge for fishing privileges. All persons 16 years of age and older must possess an Arkansas fishing license. Daily limits apply.
FERAL HOG - Any hog (Sus scrofa), including Russian and European wild boar, which is roaming freely upon public lands and is living in a wild or feral state.
FIREARMS, LOADED - Firearms shall be considered to be loaded if shells or cartridges are in either the chamber, magazine or cylinder; percussion cap muzzle-loading firearms are considered loaded if the percussion cap is on the nipple; flintlock muzzle-loading firearms are considered to be loaded if there is powder in the flashpan. FISH or FISHING - To lure, attract, collect or pursue fish species or aquatic wildlife for the purpose of taking or attempting to take such fish species or aquatic wildlife by any method.
FISH FARM - Waters and adjacent premises confined within a pond, tank or lake not connected with public waters, and under management by a fish farmer.
FISH FARMER (AQUACULTURIST) - Any person, firm, partnership or corporation engaged in the propagation or rearing of aquaculture species for sale. FREEFLOATING FISHING DEVICE - Any floating fishing device unanchored or unattached to a stationary object. FURBEARERS - Badger, beaver, bobcat, coyote, gray fox, red fox, mink, muskrat, nutria, opossum, raccoon, river otter, spotted skunk (civet cat), striped skunk and weasel.
GAFFING FISH - Taking or attempting to take fish with a hand held or handled hook prior to being caught on hook and line.
GAME ANIMALS - Alligator, black bear, bobcat, coyote, deer, elk, gray
fox, redfox, mink, opossum, eastern cottontailrabbit, swamprabbit,
raccoon, graysquirrel and foxsquirrel.
GAME BIRD SHOOTING RESORT - Any person, firm or corporation engaged, for pay or other consideration, who provides pen-raised birds for harvest by hunters.
GAME BIRDS - Turkey, quail, pheasant, chuckar, and all birds classified by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as migratory game birds.
GAME FISH - Alligator gar, black bass, white bass, striped bass, striped bass hybrid, crappie, catfish, trout, bream, sunfish, goggle-eye, walleye,
northern pike, muskellunge, sauger, paddlefish and pickerel.
GEOCACHE - Items in a container (cache) placed or hidden for individuals to subsequently find using a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS)
receiver device.
GEOCACHING - An outdoor sport, similar to "high-tech treasure hunting",
involving use of a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) receiver device to find a cache.
GUIDE - Any person who provides, for monetary or any other compensation, that person's personal services for the purpose of assisting others to locate, pursue, catch or hunt wildlife.
HIGH-FENCE ENCLOSURE - An enclosure that contains an area of at least 500 contiguous acres, with at least sixty percent (60%) of the acreage in forested cover that has been classified as timberland by the local county tax assessor, that has a perimeter fence at least eight (8) feet high, with no cross-fencing that has the effect of reducing the size of the area to less than 500 contiguous acres with at least sixty percent (60%) of the acreage in forested cover as herein provided.
HOGGING - The taking of fish by the use of hands only in or under the water.
HUNT or HUNTING - To search for, pursue, chase, track, lure, attract or lie in wait of game animals or other wildlife for the purpose of taking or attempting to take such game animals or wildlife by any method.
HUNTING PARTY - Two or more persons hunting together.
IMPORT - To land on, bring into or introduce into any place within the jurisdiction of the State of Arkansas.
IMPORTATION - To ship, convey, carry or transport wildlife into or through the state by any means.
JAKE - Sub-adult turkeys having all of following characteristics:
a) longer central tail feathers, b) outermost 1
or 2 wing feathers lacking white barring all the way to the tip and c) a beard six (6) inches or less in length.
KILLING DEVICE - Any firearm, bow and arrow, crossbow,
pellet gun or any other device capable of killing wildlife.
LARGE CARNIVORE - Tigers (Panthera tigris), African Lions (Panthera leo), or any hybrid thereof and all species of bears. LEGAL BUCK - A buck having both antlers under two inches (including button buck) or at least one antler with at least three points including the main beam, each a minimum of one inch long. (Ref. Code 21.03)
LENGTH LIMITS - MINIMUM LENGTH LIMIT: The shortest length of a fish of a designated species that can be kept. MAXIMUM LENGTH LIMIT: The maximum length of a fish of a designated species that can be kept. PROTECTED LENGTH LIMIT: A species/size limit that prohibits anglers from keeping fish within a designated size group. Unless otherwise specified, all fish are measured from the front of the lower jaw with the mouth closed to the tip of the tail with tail lobes pressed together when laid flat on a rule. All fish not meeting the length limit requirements for a particular water or species must be immediately released into the water where caught.
LITTER - All waste which has been discarded or
otherwise disposed of, including, but not limited to,
convenience food and beverage packages or containers,
trash, garbage, all other product packages or containers,
and other post consumer solid wastes.
MIGRATORY BIRDS - All birds protected by the federal
Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and subsequent amendments.
MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS - Coots, crows, doves, ducks,
gallinules or moorhens, geese, rails, snipe and woodcock.
MINNOWS - small nongame fish commonly used for bait including bluntnose minnows, bullhead minnows, chubs, dace, fatheads, common carp under 6 inches, goldfish, shiners and stonerollers.
MOBILITY IMPAIRED - Individuals who are mobility impaired in accordance with criteria on the Game and Fish application for the mobility impaired card.
NATIVE WILDLIFE - Those species and sub-species of wildlife that have established, naturally reproducing, free-ranging, wild populations within the state of Arkansas.
NIGHT - thirty (30) minutes after sunset to thirty (30) minutes before sunrise.
NOODLING - The taking of fish by the use of a pole mounted breakaway hook that detaches at the time of the strike or catch, or snare type device,
with an attached line manipulated by hand when a person is in or under the water.
NONGAME WILDLIFE - all wildlife other than furbearing or game animals,
birds and fish.
NON-RESIDENT - Any person not defined as resident.
NUISANCE WILDLIFE - Any wild animal creating a problem by committing damage to personal property (Depredation Permit available).
NUISANCE FURBEARING ANIMALS - Beaver, muskrat and nutria.
OPEN SEASON - that season during which protected wildlife may be lawfully taken.
PEN-RAISED QUAIL - Quail that are hatched from eggs of quail raised in captivity in pens or cages.
PERSON - Any individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership in singular or plural as the context requires.
POSSESS OR POSSESSION - Having or holding wildlife, or any property in one's power; the exercise of dominion over property. Possession includes actual possession, which means physical occupancy or control over property, and constructive possession, which means control or dominion over property without actual possession or custody of the property.
PROPAGATE or PROPAGATION - To cause plants or animals to breed or multiply.
PROTECTED WILDLIFE - all wildlife in the state unless a declared open season has been established by the Commission.
PUT AND TAKE PAY LAKE - Private waters open to public fishing for a fee, after being licensed by the Commission and where no fishing license or daily limit of fish is imposed.
RAPTOR - Any migratory bird of the Order Falconiformes or the Order
Strigiformes and Ciconiiformes Family Cathartidae.
REAR OR REARING - To maintain plants or animals in order to increase their size or developmental stage.
REHABILITATION - The practice of providing medical treatment or other care to orphaned, sick or injured wild animals that have come into human possession with the goal of returning the animal to the wild.
RESIDENT - Any person who physically inhabitsa bona fide residence
within Arkansas for a period of time, no less than60 days, and declares themselves to be a full-time resident of Arkansas. Additional facts to be considered in establishing proof of current Arkansas residency are:
Possession of Arkansas real estate and/or proof of payment of associated services or utilities do not qualify the owner/renter as a resident if they live out of state. EXCEPTIONS:
annual or trip resident license privileges:
$1,000 Sportsman's permit, Resident Disabled 3-Year Licenses, Special Guide License, Alligator Farmer/Dealer Permit, Alligator
Snapping Turtle Breeder/Dealer Permit, Commercial Fisherman's Permit & Sportfishing License, Commercial Fisherman's Helper Permit, Junior/Senior Commercial Fishing Permit, Resident Shell Taker/Seller Permit, Shell Taker Helper Permit, Shell Buyer, Resident Fish Dealer, Resident Roe Taker/Seller Permit, Resident Roe Taker Helper Permit and Resident Roe Buyer/Exporter Permit.
ROUGH FISH - Gars, bowfin, bullhead catfish, common carp, asian carp (grass carp, bighead carp, silver carp), suckers (including buffalo) and drum.
SELL OR SALE - To exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent; to offer for sale, barter, exchange or trade or the act of selling, bartering, exchanging or trading.
SHELL BUYER - Anyone who buys mussels or mussel parts from a Taker. An agent purchasing for a licensed buyer is not a buyer. SIMULATED WING MOVEMENT DECOYS - Electronic, mechanically-operated, wind-powered or manually-powered devices that simulate wing movement, except for kite devices.
SMALL GAME - Furbearers, migratory game birds, quail, rabbit and squirrel.
SNAGGING - A method of taking fish using conventional rod and reel tackle where the fish is impaled by the forceful retrieval of one or more hooks.
SNAGLINE - Commercial tackle consisting of a horizontal line with hooks or drops less than 24 inches apart. SPORTFISH - See game fish definition above. TACKLE - Any rod, reel, pole, line, net, yo-yo, seine or any other apparatus or device used to take fish.
TAKE - To shoot, kill, injure, trap, net, snare, spear, catch, capture or reduce to possession.
TAXIDERMY - The art of preparing, stuffing and/or mounting of wildlife and parts thereof.
TRANSLOCATION - To ship, convey, carry or transport wildlife from one location to another by any means, including importation, exportation, interstate and intrastate movement.
TRAP or TRAPPING - To use a device, such as a clamp-like apparatus that closes, noose or cable restraint device (snare), for the purpose of catching and holding animals.
TROUT - Any members of the Salmonidae family including rainbow trout, brown trout, brook trout, lake trout and cutthroat trout. WATERFOWL - All species of ducks, geese and swans. WATERS OF THE STATE - All streams, lakes, sloughs, bayous, marshes or any other water wholly or partially within the State. Pay lakes and fish farms are excluded from the above.
WILD - to be living in a state of nature and not domesticated. WILDLIFE - All wild birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians and other wild aquatic forms, and all other wild animals, regardless of classification, whether resident, migratory or imported, protected or unprotected, dead or alive, and shall extend to and include any and every part of any individual species of wildlife, including animals living in a captive state and which lack a genetic distinction from members of the same species living in the wild.
WILDLIFE CHECK STATION - An official wildlife check station is a
Commission designated (1) county check station, (2) Commission employee, (3) deer camp or (4) Commission on-line checking web site
WILDLIFE HUNTING RESORT - A Wildlife Hunting Resort is any facility,
location, business or operation that is engaged in offering the opportunity to hunt or attempt to hunt captive wildlife other than pen-raised game birds.
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA (WMA) - Designated areas set aside by the Commission and distinguished by certain markers and considered a separate zone with regard to wildlife regulations, referred to as "WMA",
"Waterfowl Rest Area (WRA)", "Wildlife Demonstration Area (WDA)",
"Special Use Area (SUA)", "State Park-Conservation Area (SP-CA)", or
"National Wildlife Refuge (NWR)".
ZONE - Any area defined or delineated by the Commission where hunting and/or fishing activities are regulated for that specific area.
Daily Limit - Black Basses(including not more than four Smallmouth). | 10 |
Daily Limit - Rock Bass............................ | 10 |
Daily Limit - Catfish(exc. Bullhead).......... | 10 |
Daily Limit - Bream(over 4"in length)....... | 50 |
Daily Limit - Crappie................................ | 20 |
Daily Limit - Muskellunge........................ | 6 |
Daily Limit - Pickerel................................ | 6 |
Daily Limit - Northern Pike....................... | 6 |
Daily Limit - Sauger.................................. | 6 |
Daily Limit - Saugeye............................... | 6 |
Daily Limit - Striped Bass or Hybrid Combination......................... | 6 |
Daily Limit - Walleye................................ | 6 |
Daily Limit - White Bass........................... (Yellow Bass - No Limit) | 25 |
Daily Limit - Paddlefish............................. | 2 |
Daily Limit - Alligator Gar.......................... | 2 |
Daily Aggregate Limit................................ | 75 |
Daily Limit for all sportfish on Bois d'Arc in Hempstead County | Vi daily limit |
EXCEPTIONS:
Ozark Zone Blue Ribbon Streams (Crooked Creek and Buffalo River) - smallmouth bass minimum length limit of 14 inches with a daily limit of 2. Smallmouth bass minimum length limit on Crooked Creek 18 inches with a daily limit of 1: from 101 bridge downstream to the confluence with the White River; between the Hwy 62-412 and Hwy 62 Spur bridges at Pyatt. Smallmouth bass minimum length limit on Buffalo River 18 inches with a daily limit of 1 from confluence with Clabber Creek downstream to the confluence with the White River.
Ozark Zone Catch and Release Area - Crooked Creek, along boundary of Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation property near Kelly's Slab Access. Ozark Zone Quality Streams (Kings, Spring, South Fork/Spring and Eleven Point rivers) - smallmouth bass minimum length limit of 14 inches with a daily limit of 2, except on Kings River from Trigger Gap to Hwy 62 bridge: minimum length limit 18 inches and daily limit of 1. Ouachita/Boston Zone (all Arkansas counties not included in the Ozark Zone) - smallmouth bass minimum length limit of 10 inches with a daily limit of 4.
Ouachita/Boston Zone Quality Streams (Mulberry, Caddo above DeGray Lake, DeGray Lake, Cossatot River, Ouachita River upstream from Lake Ouachita, Ouachita River downstream from Remmel Dam, Saline River, including its four headwater forks in Saline, Perry and Garland counties, South Fork/Ouachita, Little Missouri above Lake Greeson and Lake Greeson) - smallmouth bass minimum length limit of 12 inches with a daily limit of 2. Ouachita/Boston Zone Catch-and-Release Area - all smallmouth bass caught in Lake Ouachita including the Ouachita River upstream to the River Bluff access area must be immediately returned to the stream.
from the confluence of the Mississippi/White Rivers upstream to the Benzal Railroad Bridge, and from the confluence of the Mississippi/Arkansas Rivers upstream to the Yancopin Railroad Bridge. .
Lake, Bull Shoals Lake, Lake Greeson, Lake Maumelle, Norfork Lake and Lake Ouachita; 10 when taken from the Arkansas River and connecting lakes.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
ON CERTAIN LAKES AND RIVERS
EXCEPTION:
EXCEPTION:
NOTE: IVIeasure all fish from the front end of the lower jaw to the tip of the tail with fish laid flat on rule, mouth closed and tail lobes pressed together. PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
It shall be unlawful to fish in the following waters except as specified herein:
Armory Pond (Columbia County), Bob Courtway Pond (Faulkner County), Mattocks Park Lake (Union County), Dr. James E. Moore Jr. Camp Robinson Firing Range (Faulkner County), Lake Village Community Fishing Pond (Chicot County), Pine Bluff Regional Park Youth Fishing Pond (Jefferson County), Landers Lake (Pulaski County), Mike and Janet Huckabee Youth Fishing Pond (Hempstead County), Salem City Lake (Fulton County) War Memorial Park Pond (Pulaski County), and Craighead Forest Park Youth Fishing Pond (Craighead County).
It shall be unlawful to fish in the following waters except as specified herein:
Clear Lake (Clark County), Searcy City Lake (White County), Carol Ann Cross Pond (Sebastian County), Amon's Lake (Baxter County), T. J. House Reservoir (City of Mulberry lake), Dardanelle City Park Ponds (Yell County), Yell County Wildlife Federation Pond (Yell County), Wells Lake, Ft. Chaffee (Sebastian County), all lakes, ponds and streams managed by the City of Little Rock Parks and Recreation Department within the city limits of Little Rock, Mike Freeze England Community Pond (Lonoke County), Springdale Community Pond in Murphy Park, Cabot Community Pond, Willow Beach Park Pond (Pulaski County), Benton City Lake, North Little Rock City Park waters, Cherrywood Lake (Pulaski County), Sherwood Municipal City Pond (Pulaski County), Martin Luther King Jr. Park Pond in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), Family Park Pond (Garland County), Little Rock Air Force Base Pond (Pulaski County), Pinnacle Mountain State Park Pond (Pulaski County), Lake Valencia (Pulaski County), Lake Atalanta (Benton County), Pleasant View Park Pond (Polk County), Tilden Rodgers Park Pond (Crittenden County), Glenwood Community Pond (Pike County).
Fourche Lefave River from 100 yards below Nimrod Dam to Hwy 7 bridge.
EXCEPTION:
LAKE. It shall be unlawful to use wild-caught baitfish on Norfork Lake unless said bait was caught on Norfork Lake. PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00.
RIVER. It shall be unlawful to use an outboard motor on the Buffalo River upstream from Erbie Ford, or use outboard motors larger than ten (10) horsepower from Erbie Ford to White River.
PENALTY: Not to exceed $50.00.
PENALTY: Not to exceed $50.00.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00
Artificial Lures Only Area / No Bait Zone from approximately 0.5 mile below Beaver Dam to approximately 100 yards upstream of Parker Bend Access as indicated by signs.
Access to approximately 300 yards upstream of Old Factory Site (Weir #2), as indicated by signs.
hooking point shall be used. Natural or scented baits
are prohibited.
PENALTY: $100.00 to $1,000.00
002.00.07 Ark. Code R. 008