LivewellFish consumption advisories
Arkansas
Arkansas publishes advisories for 26 waters, covering 157 species-and-size recommendations.
Contaminants of concern: Dioxins, Mercury, PCBs
Waters with advisories in Arkansas
26 waters on file. A water not listed here has no advisory in the state's data — which usually means it has never been sampled, not that it's been cleared.
Lakes 15
- Bull Shoals Lake Baxter, Marion, Boone
- Cove Creek Lake Perry
- Dry Fork Lake Perry
- Dupree Lake Pulaski
- Grays Lake Cleveland
- Lake Columbia Columbia
- Lake Fort Smith Crawford
- Lake Ouachita Garland, Montgomery
- Lake Saracen Jefferson
- Lake Sylvia Perry
- Lake Winona Saline
- Nimrod Lake Yell, Perry
- Norfork Lake Baxter, Fulton
- Ouachita River from Camden to the north border of the Felsenthal Wildlife Refuge to include all associated ox-bow lakes, backwater and overflow lakes and barrow ditches Union, Ouachita, Calhoun
- Spring Lake Yell
Rivers 11
- Bayou Bartholomew from the Drew/Ashley County Line to the Arkansas/Louisiana State Line Drew, Ashley
- Bayou Meto, upstream from Highway 13 Pulaski, Lonoke
- Big Creek Tributary, from Magnolia to Big Creek Columbia
- Champagnolle Creek to include Little Champagnolle from Highway 4 to where it joins with the Ouachita River Calhoun
- Cutoff Creek from where the creek crosses Highway 35 in Drew County to where it joins with Bayou Bartholomew Drew
- Dorcheat Bayou Columbia
- Felsenthal Wildlife Refuge including the Saline River up to Stillions Bridge Union, Bradley, Ashley
- Fouche La Fave River from Nimrod Dam to where it joins with the South Fouche Perry
- Johnson Hole which is located on the South Fork of the Little Red River Van Buren
- Moro Bay Creek from Highway 160 to where it joins with the Ouachita River Bradley
- Saline River from Highway 79 in Cleveland County to Stillions Bridge in Bradley and Ashley Counties Cleveland, Bradley, Ashley
Browse Arkansas by county
Every named water in the state, county by county — including the many with no advisory on file.
- Arkansas
- Ashley 3
- Baxter 2
- Benton
- Boone 1
- Bradley 3
- Calhoun 2
- Carroll
- Chicot
- Clark
- Clay
- Cleburne
- Cleveland 2
- Columbia 3
- Conway
- Craighead
- Crawford 1
- Crittenden
- Cross
- Dallas
- Desha
- Drew 2
- Faulkner
- Franklin
- Fulton 1
- Garland 1
- Grant
- Greene
- Hempstead
- Hot Spring
- Howard
- Independence
- Izard
- Jackson
- Jefferson 1
- Johnson
- Lafayette
- Lauderdale
- Lawrence
- Le Flore
- Lee
- Lincoln
- Little River
- Logan
- Lonoke 1
- Madison
- Marion 1
- Miller
- Mississippi
- Monroe
- Montgomery 1
- Nevada
- Newton
- Ouachita 1
- Perry 5
- Phillips
- Pike
- Poinsett
- Polk
- Pope
- Prairie
- Pulaski 2
- Randolph
- Saline 1
- Scott
- Searcy
- Sebastian
- Sevier
- Sharp
- St. Francis
- Stone
- Union 2
- Van Buren 1
- Washington
- White
- Woodruff
- Yell 2
Arkansas statewide fishing limits
Statewide defaults — specific waters and zones may differ. Verify the current rules before keeping a fish.
| Species | Size | Daily limit | Open season | Keep season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Largemouth Bass | — | 6 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Black Crappie | 10" min | 30 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Walleye | 18" min | 4 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Channel Catfish | — | 10 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Striped Bass | — | 3 | Year-round | Same as open |
Official rules: Arkansas — Arkansas Game & Fish