ELIGIBLE HOOK-AND-LINE SPECIES TABLE

FISH SPECIES
minimum requirements

BIG FISH (LBS)

CATCH & RELEASE (INS)

Largemouth bass
6
19
Smallmouth bass
3
16
Spotted bass
3
16
White bass
2
15
Yellow bass
1
11
Striped bass
12
28
Hybrid striped bass
7
20
Northern pike
13
30
Muskellunge
15
36
Tiger muskie
13
30
Walleye
5
22
Sauger
3
18
Saugeye(hybrid)
3
18
Yellow perch
1
12
Bluegill
1
10
Redear sunfish
1
10
Green sunfish
1
10
Rock bass
1
9
Warmouth
1
9
Other sunfish
1
10
Hybrid sunfish
1
10
White crappie
2
13
Black crappie
2
13
Hybrid crappie
2
13
Channel catfish
14
28
Blue catfish
20
30
Flathead catfish
20
30
Black bullhead
2
12
Yellow bullhead
2
12
Brown bullhead
2
12
Coho salmon
10
25
Chinook salmon
18
34
Pink salmon
2
15
Atlantic salmon
9
25
Lake trout
15
27
Brown trout
15
27
Rainbow trout
12
30
Brook trout
2
15
Tiger trout
3
19
Common carp
15
32
*Bighead carp
15
 
Bowfin
6
24
Freshwater drum
10
24
Bigmouth buffalo
15
25
Black buffalo
15
25
Smallmouth buffalo
15
25
Shovelnose sturgeon
2
24
Longnose gar
6
32
Shortnose gar
6
30
Spotted gar
6
30
Grass carp (white amur)
15
27
Goldeye
1
12
Mooneye
1
12
Skipjack herring
1
12
Burbot
5
22
* may not be possessed alive