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Welcome to North Carolina Fishing

Cover of the 2025–2026 North Carolina Inland Fishing, Hunting & Trapping Regulations Digest featuring a brook trout leaping out of splashing water.
The 2025–2026 North Carolina Inland Fishing, Hunting & Trapping Regulations Digest, with a brook trout in mid-leap on the cover.

2025-2026 Regulations PDF

What’s New for the 2025–2026 Season

As part of the Commission’s ongoing effort to keep you informed, we reserve this page of the digest each year to identify significant regulatory, legislative, and agency-related changes that you should be aware of each season. Please note that the information found on this page is not a complete list of regulation changes. For your convenience, all regulation changes appear in RED.

Inland Fishing

  • The age of a youth is being standardized throughout all rules to under the age of 16.
  • Established an 8-inch minimum size limit and a 20-fish daily creel limit for crappie at Shearon Harris Reservoir.
  • The daily creel limit for striped and white mullet has changed from 200 to 100 fish in aggregate and established a limit of no more than 400 fish total per boat.

Scan the QR code to view the inland fishing regulations in Spanish.

Scannable QR code with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission logo at the center, linking to Spanish fishing regulations.
Scan this QR code for the Spanish version of the North Carolina Fishing Regulations Digest.
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