Welcome to 2025-26 Indiana Fishing
To Our Anglers
Welcome to the 2025 Indiana DNR Fishing Regulations Guide. We hope you find it helpful as you prepare to set out on your next fishing journey.
This guide provides a summary of Indiana fishing regulations. These regulations apply only to fish that originate from or are taken from Indiana's public waters. Fish from public waters that migrate into or from private waters are still covered by these regulations. These regulations do not apply to fish in private waters that did not originate from public waters.
This guide is not intended to be a complete digest of regulations. If you need complete versions of Indiana rules and regulations for fishing, they can be found in Indiana Code or in Indiana Administrative Code Title 312.
For the most up-to-date information, including corrections or updates to this guide, please visit the online version of the Indiana Fishing Regulations Guide.
All funds made from selling Indiana hunting and fishing licenses go directly back to conservation. Your license funds are used to conduct fish research, maintain fish and wildlife areas, educate new anglers, maintain public access sites, stock fish in Indiana waters, acquire land, and more. We thank all anglers, hunters, trappers, boaters, and recreational shooters in Indiana for their continued support of the Division of Fish & Wildlife. The funding stream you provide helps make conservation of Indiana’s natural resources a success.
Finally, we wish you luck in your 2025 fishing endeavors. We hope you get your best catch yet.
New Activity Hub Launches
The Division of Fish & Wildlife launched a new system, the Activity Hub, on Dec. 11. This replaced the current license system and includes core functionalities, such as license sales, game check-in, HIP registration, donations, and gift certificates. In future rollouts, the system will support property check-in, volunteer management, event registration, reserved hunts, and a smartphone application. Improved functions and new features of the Hub include options for the auto-renewal of licenses and purchases of durable license cards.
All customers must log in through Access Indiana. Those with existing Access Indiana accounts will be able to log in without disruption. When logging into the new system for the first time, customers will need to look themselves up in the system and verify their personal information. On their next login, they will be taken directly to their account page.
Customers who have questions regarding their accounts should call the DNR Customer Service Center at 317-232-4200 or 877-463-6367, or email.
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