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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.
= Conservation Passport Area
Raymond Gary
ChoctawChannel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Rivers & Streams
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 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.
Prohibited Methods: Possession and use of cast nets is prohibited on all Oklahoma Scenic Rivers and all streams east of Highway 69, except the Arkansas, Canadian (below Eufaula Dam), Neosho/Grand, Kiamichi (below Hugo Dam), Verdigris, Poteau, and Red rivers and their tailwaters, and from the south boundary of the lower Illinois River Public Fishing Area (Simp and Helen Watts Area) downstream to the Highway 64 bridge.
Robber's Cave
Latimer(Carlton, Coon Creek and Wayne Wallace Lakes and From Carlton Lake Dam downstream 1.5 miles to the State Park boundary)
Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
(Carlton, Coon Creek and Wayne Wallace Lakes)
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
(From Carlton Lake Dam downstream 1.5 miles to the State Park boundary)
Allowed methods: only one rod and reel per person during trout season (other times up to two rods and reels per person).
Note: For more trout regulations, see Trout Regulations.
Robert S. Kerr
Haskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah(Includes oxbows and cutoffs)
Walleye, sauger and saugeye: 16-inch minimum.
Schooler
ChoctawChannel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.
Allowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person, bowfishing.
Shell Lake
OsageAll crappie: no limit.
Skiatook
OsageStriped bass and striped bass hybrids (does not include white bass): five per day, of which only two may be 20 inches or longer.
Sooner Lake
Noble, PawneeStriped bass: 5 per day, minimum length of 20 inches; walleye, sauger, saugeye: six combined per day/18-inch minimum; others must be returned to the water immediately.
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).
Stanley Draper
Cleveland, OklahomaAllowed 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
MuskogeeAllowed methods: up to two rods and reels per person.