Fishing Permit

Cover of fishing regulation summary showing a smallmouth bass hooked on a line.
Limits

Limits and methods vary by species, season, and fishing area.

Cost
Resident
$12.00
Nonresident
$49.00
Buy Permit
Notes

For fish, frogs, mussels, clams, turtles, crayfish, and live bait.

Pickerel

January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023
Image of American Bullfrog
Frog
Hunting & Fishing
Striped bass side view photo with black background
Temperate Bass
White, Yellow, Striped & Their Hybrids
Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass
Black Bass
Largemouth, Smallmouth, Spotted Kentucky
Bowfin side view photo with black background
Bowfin
Bigmouth buffalo side view photo with black background
Buffalo
Bigmouth, Black, Smallmouth
black (top) and white (bottom) crappie
Crappie
White, Black
Freshwater drum side view photo with black background
Freshwater Drum
Longnose gar side view photo with black background
Gar
Alligator, Longnose, Shortnose, Spotted
Northern rock bass, or goggle-eye, side view photo with black background
Goggle-eye (Rock Bass) and Warmouth
Muskellunge side view photo with black background
Muskellunge
Paddlefish side view
Paddlefish
Chain pickerel side view photo with black background
Pickerel
Chain, Grass
Shovelnose sturgeon side view photo with black background
Shovelnose Sturgeon
White sucker side view photo with black background
Suckers
Northern Hog, Redhorse, White
sunfish
Sunfish
Bluegill, Green, Longear, Redear
Rainbow trout side view photo with black background
Trout
Brown, Rainbow
Walleye side view photo with black background
Walleye & Sauger
pink heelsplitter
Mussels & Clams
Northern pike side view photo with black background
Northern Pike
Gizzard shad side view photo with black background
Gizzard Shad
Eastern snapping turtle walking on land with algae on shell.
Turtle
Common Snapping, Soft-Shelled
Black bullhead side view photo with black background
Bullhead
Black, Brown, Yellow
Common carp side view photo with black background
Carp
Black, Bighead, Common, Grass, Silver
River carpsucker side view photo with black background
Carpsucker & Quillback
Highfin, River, Quillback
Blue, channel, and flathead catfish
Catfish
Blue, Channel, Flathead