In addition to general fishing regulations, statewide species regulations and Department fishing area rules, this section addresses special regulations that apply to public fishing waters. If a species or body of water is not listed, refer to statewide regulations. Unless listed, refer to statewide regulations. >> Listed in Alphabetical Order
= Conservation Passport Area
Adair Park
Adair County
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Fees & Facilities: (918) 696-7143
Game Warden:(918) 431-2539, (918) 431-2546
Allowed methods: One rod and reel per person.
American Horse -
Blaine County
Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663
Game Warden: (580) 623-0206
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: Up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Arbuckle
Murray County
Fishing Contact: (580) 924-4087
Fees & Facilities: (580) 622-7234
Game Warden:(580) 618-0044
Daily/Size Limits: Crappie: 15 combined per day, must be 10 inches or longer.
Arcadia
Oklahoma County
Fishing Contact: (405) 325-7288
Education Area: (405) 990-9753
Fees & Facilities: (405) 216-7470
Game Warden: (405) 203-3176, (405) 343-5489, (405) 203-3178
Daily/Size Limits: Striped bass and/or striped bass hybrids: five combined per day, of which only two may be 20 inches or longer.
Additional Restrictions: Walk-in fishing is allowed year-round on the Arcadia Lake shoreline within the conservation area. Fishing is not allowed on the ponds or wetland areas.
Arkansas River
Keystone Dam downstream to the Arkansas state line
Fishing Contact: (918) 299-2334 from Keystone Dam downstream to Muskogee Turnpike bridge. (918) 683-1031 from Muskogee Turnpike bridge downstream to the Arkansas state line.
Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger and saugeye: six combined per day/16-inch minimum, including all reservoirs and unimpounded tributaries from Keystone Dam downstream to the Oklahoma state line.
Prohibited methods: snagging between April 15-May 15 in the Arkansas River from Zink Dam for 800 feet downstream.
In the tailwaters area immediately below Webbers Falls Lock and Dam; bowfishing, gigs, spears, spearguns and snagging is prohibited in the first 1,000 feet. Trotlines, throwlines, limblines, juglines and yo-yos are prohibited below Webbers Falls Lock and Dam for a distance of one mile.
Barren Fork WMA -
Adair County
Fishing Contact: Streams Program Fisheries Office (918) 683-1031
Game Warden: (918) 431-2546, (918) 431-2539
Daily Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person.
Black Kettle WMA
Roger Mills County
Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663
Fees & Facilities: (580) 497-2143
Game Warden:(580) 497-6897
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Daily/Size Limits: Spotted bass: must be 14 inches or longer. Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day. All crappie: six combined per day, no size limit.
Allowed methods: one rod and reel per person during trout season (other times up to two rods and reels per person).
Game Warden:(918) 440-9880, (918) 331-5798, (918) 381-4099, (580) 761-4097
Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger and saugeye: six combined per day/18-inch minimum.
Burtschi -
Grady County
Fishing Contact: (580) 529-2795
Game Warden: (405) 779-1479
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Caney River
Below Hulah Lake dam
Fishing Contact: (580) 762-2248
Game Warden: (918) 331-5798, (918) 857-5557, (918) 640-0316
Prohibited methods: Bowfishing prohibited from Hulah dam downstream 1,200 feet to the reregulation dam. Gigs, spears, spearguns and snagging prohibited from Hulah dam downstream to the confluence of old and new river channels. (Also see Tailwaters regulations )
Carl Albert
Le Flore County
Fishing Contact: (918) 297-0153
Fees & Facilities: (918) 567-3434
Game Warden: (918) 429-3910, (918) 431-2559, (918) 513-0814
Allowed methods: rod and reel only.
Carl Blackwell
Payne County
Fishing Contact: (580) 762-2248
Fees & Facilities:(405) 372-5157
Game Warden: (405) 747-0505
Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, Sauger and saugeye: six combined per day/18-inch minimum.
Prohibited methods: Noodling
Carl Etling -
Cimarron County
Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663
Game Warden:(580) 651-9133
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing. Cast nets may be used to take bait for personal use.
Dahlgren -
Cleveland County
Fishing Contact: (405) 325-7288
Game Warden:(405) 323-7863, (405) 850-9757
Daily/Size Limits: Channel catfish: six per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Doc Hollis -
Greer County
Fishing Contact: (580) 529-2795
Game Warden:(580) 450-7706
Daily/Size Limits: All largemouth bass must be returned to the water unharmed immediately after being caught (no harvest allowed). Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day. Motors (electric or combustion) are prohibited.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Elmer -
Kingfisher County
Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663
Game Warden: (405) 368-0887
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Elmer Thomas
Comanche County
Fishing Contact: (580) 529-2795
Fees & Facilities: (580) 442-5854
Game Warden: (580) 695-7535
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Prohibited methods: snagging is closed for one mile below Eufaula Dam.
Lake Eufaula State Park
Pickens Lake: Fishing open only to residents under 16 or 65 and older, or those 60 percent or more disabled, or legally blind and those accompanying. Fishing limited to only two rods and reels per person. No other fishing methods allowed.
Kid's Fish Out Lake: Fishing open only to persons under 16 or 64 and older, or those 60 percent or more disabled, or legally blind or physically impaired and one companion. Fishing limited to only two rods and reels per person. No other method of fishing allowed.
Evans Chambers -
Beaver County
Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663
Game Warden: (580) 651-9135
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Bowfishing prohibited below turbine outlets downstream to State Park and below spillway outlet downstream to highline crossing. The next ½ mile below the highline crossing is closed only when the spillway gates are discharging water and for seven days following closure of the gates.
Gigs, spears and spearguns are prohibited below turbine outlets downstream to State Park bridge and below spillway outlets downstream for one mile.
Noodling is prohibited below turbine outlets downstream to State Park bridge and below the spillway outlets downstream to highline crossing, except noodling shall be legal the day of and two days following closure of spillway.
Great Salt Plains
Alfalfa County
Fishing Contact:(580) 474-2663
Fees & Facilities: (580) 626-4731
Game Warden:(580) 541-0820
(including lake and tailwaters)
Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger or saugeye: six combined per day/no size limit.
Greenleaf
Muskogee County
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Fees & Facilities: (918) 487-5196
Game Warden: (918) 625-4873, (918) 625-4691
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Hall -
Harmon County
Fishing Contact: (580) 529-2795
Game Warden: (580) 450-7701
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Hefner
Oklahoma County
Fishing Contact: (405) 325-7288
Fees & Facilities: (405) 297-2211
Game Warden:(405) 343-5489, (405) 203-3176, (405) 203-3178
Daily/Size Limits: All crappie: 15 combined per day/10-inch minimum.
Jap Beaver -
Jefferson County
Fishing Contact: (580) 529-2795
Game Warden: (580) 313-0451
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Kiamichi River
Below Hugo Lake Dam
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Game Warden: (580) 317-5000
Prohibited methods: Trotlines, throwlines, snagging, bowfishing and noodling from Hugo Dam downstream to first railroad bridge. (Also see “Tailwaters” regulations; and shad restrictions on Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS)).
Konawa
Seminole County
Fishing Contact: (405) 379-5408
Fees & Facilities: (580) 925-2071
Game Warden: (405) 380-8995
Allowed methods: rod and reel, bowfishing, and noodling.
Lee Creek
Including Little Lee Creek
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Game Warden: (918) 431-2546, (918) 431-2539, (918) 431-2544, (918) 431-2550
Daily/Size Limits: Black bass: six combined per day, all of which must be 14 inches or longer, and only one of which may be a smallmouth bass.
Prohibited methods: cast netting.
Little River
McCurtain County
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Game Warden: (580) 513-6866, (580) 513-4963, (580) 513-4651
(Below Pine Creek Lake Dam)
Prohibited methods: Trotlines, throwlines, limblines, yo-yos and juglines from the dam downstream for a distance of 2,000 feet. (Also see “Tailwaters” regulations.)
Lone Chimney
Pawnee and Payne Counties
Fishing Contact: (580) 762-2248
Fees & Facilities:(918) 762-3581
Game Warden: (918) 645-6116, (405) 747-0505
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Prohibited methods: Gigs and spears, spearguns and snagging. (Also see “Tailwaters” regulations.)
Lower Illinois River -
Sequoyah County
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Game Warden: (918) 431-2550, (918) 431-2544
(From Tenkiller Dam downstream to the confluence of the Arkansas River)
Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger and saugeye: six per day/16-inch minimum.
Allowed methods: From Tenkiller Dam downstream to the U.S. 64 bridge: fishing limited to one rod and reel per person. Cast nets may be used to take bait for personal use from the south boundary of the lower Illinois River Public Fishing Area – “Simp and Helen Watts Area” downstream to the Highway 64 bridge (Also see “Tailwaters” regulations)
Denison Dam downstream to the mouth of the Shawnee Creek: Anglers are advised to meet all fishing license requirements for both Oklahoma and Texas. See map below.
If fishing in Oklahoma waters, an Oklahoma fishing license is required, unless exempt. If fishing in Texas waters, you need a Texas fishing license, unless exempt. A Lake Texoma fishing license is not valid below Denison Dam.
Mouth of Shawnee Creek downstream (east): If fishing in the Red River, anglers must possess an Oklahoma fishing license, unless exempt.
For all of the Lower Red River:
Daily/Size Limits: Alligator gar harvest must be reported within 24 hours via E-Check at wildlifedepartment.com. Transport of shad from the Lower Red River is prohibited. If shad are collected from the Lower Red River for use as bait, they may only be used in the Lower Red River.
Prohibited methods: bowfishing for paddlefish, year-round. (Also see "Tailwaters" regulations; and shad restrictions on Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS)).
Medicine Creek Trout Area
Comanche County
Fishing Contact: (580) 529-2795
Game Warden:(580) 695-7535
(Gondola Lake dam south to State Highway 49 bridge)
Allowed methods: only one rod and reel per person during trout season, bowfishing.
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Oklahoma River
Oklahoma County
Fishing Contact: (405) 325-7288
Fees & Facilities: (405) 297-1426
Game Warden: (405) 343-5489, (405) 203-3176, (405) 203-3178
Allowed methods: up to three rods and reels per person, with no more than three hooks per line (treble hooks count as one hook; restriction does not apply to artificial lures with more than three hooks). Noodling is only allowed from the NW 10th Street bridge to the MacArthur Street bridge.
Oklahoma State Park Ponds
Statewide
Fishing Contact: (800) 652-6552
Game Warden: (405) 522-0871
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger and saugeye: six combined per day/18-inch minimum.
Allowed methods: rod and reel only.
Ponds (WMAs)
Statewide
Fishing Contact: (405) 521-3721
Game Warden: (405) 522-0871
(Within Wildlife Department Management Areas)
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing
Note: Ponds and creeks within Honobia Creek and Three Rivers Wildlife Management Areas require special permits. All resident anglers, except those under 18 years of age on the first day of the current calendar year or are 64 years old or older, and all non-resident anglers regardless of age must possess a Land Access Permit to fish and/or hunt on either the Honobia Creek or Three Rivers Wildlife Management Areas.
Raymond Gary
Choctaw County
Fishing Contact: (918) 297-0153
Game Warden:(580) 317-5000
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Rivers & Streams
Statewide
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Game Warden: (405) 522-0871
Statewide: It is unlawful to take or possess more than 25 nongame fish harvested from a river or stream, (see Statewide Daily & Size Limits for daily limits on shad or species of special concern).
Private Properties: Landowner consent must be obtained to utilize lands with rivers and/or creeks flowing through them.
Daily/Size Limits: Black bass (largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted): six combined per day, only one of which may be a smallmouth bass. Largemouth and smallmouth bass must be 14 inches or longer. No size limit on spotted bass.
Scenic Rivers: Use or possession of a cast net is illegal on Baron Fork Creek, Flint Creek, Illinois River, Lee Creek, Little Lee Creek and Upper Mountain Fork River.
Robbers Cave -
Latimer County
Fishing Contact: (918) 297-0153
Fees & Facilities: (918) 465-2565
Game Warden:(918) 471-9447
(Carlton, Coon Creek and Wayne Wallace Lakes)
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
(From Carlton Lake Dam downstream 1.5 miles to the State Park boundary)
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: only one rod and reel per person during trout season (other times up to two rods and reels per person).
Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger and saugeye: 16-inch minimum.
Schooler -
Choctaw County
Fishing Contact: (918) 297-0153
Game Warden: (580) 317-5000
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Shell Lake
Osage County
Fishing Contact: (580) 762-2248
Game Warden: (918) 331-5798, (918) 381-4099, (918) 440-9880, (918) 761-4097
Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger and saugeye: six combined per day/18-inch minimum.
Skiatook
Osage County
Fishing Contact: (580) 762-2248
Fees & Facilities: (580) 396-3170
Game Warden:(918) 331-5798, (918) 381-4099, (918) 440-9880, (918) 761-4097
Daily/Size Limits: Striped bass and striped bass hybrids (does not include white bass): five per day, of which only two may be 20 inches or longer.
Sooner
Noble and Pawnee Counties
Fishing Contact: (580) 762-2248
Fees & Facilities: (405) 553-2919
Game Warden: (580) 370-0700, (918) 645-6116
Daily/Size Limits: Striped bass: 5 per day, minimum length of 20 inches; others must be returned to the water immediately. Walleye, sauger and saugeye: six combined per day/18-inch minimum.
Allowed methods: rod and reel, bowfishing, and noodling. Fishing is prohibited from dam, fenced area below dam, and north bank of intake channel. Fishing in the buoy-marked intake channel, discharge channel and spillway embankment is bank fishing only (no float tubes or wading).
Allowed methods: up to three rods and reels per person, with no more than three hooks per line (treble hooks are considered one hook). Bowfishing during daylight hours only.
Taft
Muskogee County
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Game Warden:(918) 625-4873, (918) 625-4691
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person.
Tailwaters
Statewide
Fishing Contact: (405) 521-3721
Game Warden: (405) 522-0871
First 1,000 feet below any federal or Grand River Dam Authority dam
At Wister, the tailwater designation extends downstream to the second set of powerlines at the confluence of the old and new river channels.
Fishing limited to only two rods and reels per person. Unlawful to keep a foul-hooked fish (any fish hooked other than inside the mouth) unless taken in a tailwater open to snagging (non-game fish only). Bowfishing prohibited except at Eufaula, Fort Gibson, Heyburn, Hudson, Keystone and Wister. Bowfishing is open on Thunderbird past the first 75 feet from the dam. Gigs, spears and spearguns prohibited, except at Hudson. Snagging prohibited, except at Fort Gibson tailwaters (see additional snagging regulations on Method of Take). Each angler must keep their fish separate, marked with their name and customer ID number or lifetime license number when fishing in tailwaters. Wister tailwater is closed to noodling.
Bureau of Reclamation tailwaters
Fishing closed year-round at Arbuckle, Fort Cobb and Foss. Fishing closed for the first 75 feet from dam at Altus-Lugert, McGee Creek, Thunderbird and Tom Steed.
Bowfishing, noodling, trotlines, throwlines, limblines, juglines and yo-yos are prohibited on the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River from the spillway of Great Salt Plains Lake downstream to State Highway 38 Bridge.
Tenkiller
Cherokee and Sequoyah Counties
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Fees & Facilities: (918) 487-5252
Game Warden: (918) 431-2552, (918) 431-2562, (918) 431-2544, (918) 431-2550
(Downstream from Horseshoe Bend boat ramp to dam)
Daily/Size Limits: All crappie: 15 combined per day/10-inch minimum.
Prohibited methods: gigs and spears downstream of Horseshoe Bend boat ramp. Speargunning is legal when used with scuba, except taking flathead catfish from June 15 through July 15 is prohibited.
Note: Fishing regulations may differ between Oklahoma and Texas portions of Lake Texoma. Check the Texas Fishing Guide for details.
Daily/Size Limits: Largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass: five combined per day/14-inch minimum for largemouth and smallmouth bass. Striped bass and/or striped bass hybrids: 10 combined per day, of which only two may be 20 inches or longer. White bass: 25 per day/no size limit. All crappie: 37 combined per day/10-inch minimum. Flathead catfish: five per day/20-inch minimum. The attempt to take or harvest alligator gar is prohibited May 1-31. Alligator gar harvest must be reported within 24 hours via E-Check at wildlifedepartment.com. Texas Side: During May, no person shall take alligator gar from, or possess alligator gar while on, the Red River (including Lake Texoma) and all tributaries that drain directly or indirectly to the Red River on the Texas/Oklahoma border in Cooke, Grayson, Fannin, Lamar, Red River, and Bowie counties.
Thomas A. Bamberger Sr. WMA (Barren Fork Creek) -
Adair County
Fishing Contact: Streams Program Fisheries Office (918) 683-1031.
Game Warden: (918) 431-2546, (918) 431-2539.
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person.
Thunderbird
Cleveland County
Fishing Contact: (405) 325-7288
Fees & Facilities: (405) 360-3572
Game Warden: (405) 850-9757, (405) 323-7863
Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger and saugeye: six combined per day/18-inch minimum.
Prohibited methods: bowfishing, gigging, spearing, spearguns, snagging, and noodling within the Little River upstream of Franklin Road in Cleveland County.
Upper Illinois River and Tributaries
Includes Barren Fork Creek and Flint Creek
Use of Jet Skis, jet boats and other similar nonpropeller-driven watercraft in the upper Illinois River above the confluence with Barren Fork Creek is prohibited.
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Game Warden:(918) 431-2552, (918) 431-2562
Daily/Size Limits: Illinois River upstream from Horseshoe Bend boat ramp, Barren Fork Creek and Flint Creek; black bass (largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted): six combined per day, only one of which may be a smallmouth bass. Largemouth and smallmouth bass must be 14 inches or longer. No size limit on spotted bass.
Prohibited methods: snagging and noodling. Bowfishing, speargunning, and gigging are prohibited, except for the following methods/seasons:
Upstream from the Horseshoe Bend boat ramp to State Highway 51/U.S. 62 bridge: Gigging is permitted from Dec. 1 to March 1. Speargunning is permitted from Dec. 1 to March 31. Bowfishing is permitted from June 1 to March 31 in the Upper Illinois River only.
Upstream from State Highway 51/U.S. 62 bridge: Gigging, bowfishing and speargunning are permitted from Dec. 1 to March 31.
Possession or use of cast nets prohibited.
Upper Poteau River and Fourche Maline River and Tributaries
Le Flore County
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Game Warden:(918) 429-3910, (918) 431-2559, (580) 513-0814
Prohibited methods: gigs, spears, and spearguns.
Vanderwork -
Washita County
Fishing Contact: (580) 529-2795
Game Warden: (580) 515-4484
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Vincent -
Ellis County
Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663
Game Warden: (580) 860-4967
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Watonga -
Blaine County
Fishing Contact: (580) 474-2663
Game Warden: (580) 623-0206
Daily/Size Limits: Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: only one rod and reel per person during trout season (other times up to two rods and reels per person), bowfishing.
Note: For additional trout regulations, see Trout Regulations. The dam at Watonga will be under repair until further notice. For more information visit www.wildlifedepartment.com
Webbers Falls
Muskogee County
Fishing Contact: (918) 683-1031
Fees & Facilities: (918) 487-5252
Game Warden:(918) 625-4873, (918) 625-4691
Daily/Size Limits: Walleye, sauger and saugeye: six combined per day/16-inch minimum.
