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Arkansas River

Attention Non-Residents

The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission adopted new rules in 2025 that require non-residents accessing certain Oklahoma public hunting and fishing areas to check in and out of the area. By checking in and out of these areas, hunters, anglers, shooters, birdwatchers, hikers and any other users can help the Wildlife Department better understand how the area is being used. There is no additional cost associated with checking in or out of an area. There is no limit to the number of check ins for an individual in a year. 

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Arkansas River near Bixby Oklahoma, photo by Steve Mullen, RPS 2018
Steve Mullen/RPS 2018

Contacts

Fisheries Management Office: (918) 683-1031
Fisheries Management Office: (918) 299-2334
Game Warden:
(918) 440-9880 (Osage)
(580) 761-4097 (Osage)
(918) 645-6116 (Pawnee)
(918) 640-0316 (Tulsa)
(918) 857-5557 (Tulsa)
(918) 625-5796 (Wagoner)
(918) 625-5085 (Wagoner)
(918) 625-4873 (Muskogee)
(918) 431-2550 (Sequoyah)
(918) 431-2544 (Sequoyah)
(918) 431-2559 (Le Flore)
(918) 429-3910 (Le Flore)
(580) 513-0814 (Le Flore)
(918) 381-4099 (Osage)
(918) 331-5798 (Osage)
(580) 370-0700 (Noble)
(918) 625-4691 (Muskogee)

Bait & Tackle shops are displayed by distance, starting with the closest.

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.

Methods:

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.

 


 

 

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