Cover of the 2025–2026 Alabama Hunting & Fishing Digest, highlighting key requirements for hunting wildlife management areas and promoting bank fishing opportunities.
Major Changes for 2025–2026:
Included Colbert and Franklin Counties in CWD Management Zone redefining high risk zone and buffer zone areas and deer limit.
Created a CWD sampling permit allowing additional antlered deer permit(s) from the CMZ.
Allow two unantlered deer or one unantlered deer and one antlered buck to be taken per day from zones A, B, D, E, & CWD.
Removed walleye restriction on the Duck River Reservoir.
Removed the saltwater striped bass restriction on the Inland Reservoir.
Clarified black bass included in slot limit on Lewis Smith Reservoir.
Changed trapping season dates from specific calendar dates to generic dates.
2024–2025 Alabama Hunting & Fishing Digest cover featuring a wild turkey and highlighting forest habitat improvements for wildlife and important changes to alligator season regulations.
Major Changes for 2024-2025
Expanded the Southwest, West Central, and Lake Eufaula Alligator Management Areas.
Modified hunting dates and hours for all Alligator Management Areas except Southeast.
Changed the Alligator Size and Bag Limits and included a new bonus management harvest permit and allow nonresidents to apply for a harvest permit.
Reduced creel limit of Skipjack Herring.
Prohibited the selling of Skipjack Herring from the Tennessee River and its tributaries.
Removed slot limit of Largemouth Bass on Little Bear Creek Reservoir.
Changed limited quota permit system for duck blinds at Swan Creek Wildlife Management Area.
Expanded the Mobile-Tensaw Delta Waterfowl Management Zone.
Prohibited operations of air-cooled motors in portions of Mud Creek WMA during Waterfowl season. Restricted the use of air-cooled motors in the dewatering areas of Mud Creek WMA and portion of Raccoon Creek WMA.
Changed dates of operating airboats and air-cooled motors in Crow Creek and North Sauty Refuges.
