Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
June 29, 2023
Graeme Shaw, who was visiting Arkansas from Missoula, Montana, earlier this month, caught this nice rainbow on the White River. He estimated it to be about 14 pounds and released it after this photo. "It's the biggest rainbow I've ever caught worldwide."
AGFC Commissioner Meeting Notice
June 28, 2023
You are hereby notified that Commissioners of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will meet on the following dates and times to consider any business that may be brought before the Commission. Unless otherwise stated, meetings will be held at the AGFC offices, 2 Natural Resources Dr. in Little Rock.
WMA Deer Permit Hunt applications available July 1-31
June 28, 2023
LITTLE ROCK – Deer hunters shooting for some of Arkansas’s best public land opportunities will have the full month of July to apply for one of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Wildlife Management Area Deer Permit hunts. Applications for these hunts are available from 8 a.m. July 1 until midnight July 31 through the AGFC’s licensing system at www.agfc.com.
Ducks in a row at Frog Bayou
June 28, 2023
More than 1,300 acres of land in western Arkansas acquired by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission in the past seven years are now in the midst of a project that will provide substantially more public waterfowl hunting opportunity, more outdoor recreation and more needed habitat for migrating waterfowl.
Public land elk permits drawn
June 28, 2023
JASPER — Twenty-one applicants won permits to hunt elk on public land during two seasons this year. Winners were drawn during the Buffalo River Elk Festival, June 24, in Jasper.
AGFC adds new crop of Florida bass to Lake Ouachita
June 28, 2023
MT. IDA — Fisheries biologists and staff from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Andrew Hulsey State Fish Hatchery in Hot Springs recently added a boost to Lake Ouachita’s largemouth bass genetics by stocking more than 150,000 Florida bass fingerlings to the lake in two locations.
Last chance to submit tagged fish for awards
June 28, 2023
LITTLE ROCK — Lucky anglers have until the end of this month to claim their prizes.