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Arizona

Fishing

Fishing

Bag Limits

Open Statewide Jan. 1, 2025, through Dec. 31, 2026

Before you fish any body of water, be certain to review the General Statewide Regulations and the Special Regulations for the area you intend to fish. Anglers are responsible for knowing what regulations apply to the body of water they are fishing. See the Arizona Game & Fish website for up-to-date information including any changes.

Daily Bag Limits

The following are the legal fish and general daily bag limits that apply to all fishing waters statewide. These regulations apply statewide unless site specific Special Regulations apply to that body of water. Statewide includes all state and federal refuges, parks and monuments; open areas do not include any area closed to hunting, fishing, or trapping under A.R.S. sections 17-303 and 17-304 or Commission rules R12-4-321, R12-4-801, R12-4-802, and R12-4-803.

Legal FishDaily Bag Limits

Trout (includes rainbow, cutthroat, brown, brook, tiger, Gila and Apache trout; grayling)

4 Any combination

Bass (including largemouth and smallmouth)

6 Any combination

Striped Bass

10

Walleye

6

Northern Pike

Unlimited Immediate kill or release

Catfish (including channel and flathead)

10 Any combination

Crappie (white and black)

Unlimited

White Amur (grass carp) minimum size 30 inches

1

Roundtail Chub

Catch and release only

Sunfishes (includes bluegill, redear sunfish, green sunfish and hybrid sunfish)

Unlimited

All Other Species (except protected native fish): including, but not limited to, white bass, yellow bass, common carp, suckers, buffalofish, bullhead, yellow perch and tilapia

Unlimited

Community Fishing Program Waters Daily Bag Limits

Fish SpeciesLakesPonds

Catfish

4

2

Trout

4

2

Bass minimum size 13 inches

2

1

Sunfish (various species including bluegill, redear, green and hybrid)

10

5

White amur (grass carp) minimum size 30 inches

1

1

Statewide Possession Limits

Statewide possession limits are twice (2x) the daily bag limit for each species, unless a different possession limit is specified by water. “Possession limit” means the maximum limit, in number or amount of fish, which may be possessed at one time by any one person.