Welcome to 2025-26 Tennessee Fishing

What's New For 2025

Region 1 (West TN)

Lake Halford

• Crappie (all species): 20 per day, only five (5) fish over 12 inches may be harvested.

Davy Crockett Lake

• Largemouth Bass: No creel or length limit and only one (1) fish longer than 18 inches may be harvested per day.

Pickwick Reservoir

• Black Bass (all species): Five (5) fish per day, in combination; 15-inch minimum length limit.

Region 2 (Middle TN)

Marrowbone Lake

• Largemouth Bass: 10 per day. No length limit.

Region 3 (Cumberland Plateau)

Parksville Reservoir

• Largemouth Bass: Five (5) fish per day, 15-inch minimum length limit.
• Smallmouth, Spotted, and Alabama Bass and their hybrids: no creel, no minimum length limit.
• No live transport of any black bass away from Parksville Reservoir.

Guntersville, Nickajack, & Chickamauga Reservoir

• Black Bass: Five (5) fish per day in combination. Largemouth: 15-inch minimum length limit. Smallmouth, Spotted, Alabama Bass and their hybrids: no minimum length limit. Only one (1) may be over 16” per day.

Watts Bar Reservoir

• Black Bass: Five (5) per day in combination, 15-inch minimum length limit.

Tellico River

• Black Bass: Five (5) per day in combination, no minimum length limit.

Region 4 (East TN)

Cherokee Reservoir

• Striped Bass/Hybrid Striped Bass: Closed fishing zone is in affect from July 1 through Sept. 15.

Chilhowee Reservoir

• Black Bass: Five (5) per day in combination, 15-inch minimum length limit.

Ft. Loudoun Reservoir

• Black Bass: Five (5) per day in combination, 15-inch minimum length limit.

Tellico Reservoir

• Black Bass: Five (5) per day in combination, 15-inch minimum length limit.

City of Gatlinburg

• On Bobby Wilson Free Fishing Day, the West Prong Little Pigeon River along River Road from Maples Lane upstream to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park boundary (.6 mile) shall be closed to anglers age 16 and over until 11 a.m. local time.