Crappie Daily and Possession Limits
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Crappie Daily and Possession Limits
I was asked about some technicalities of crappie daily and possession limits on another thread. Rather than hijack that thread, here is the info here. I asked the following questions to the captain of Enforcement in the central Arkansas area. Here are his responses. I hope this helps. 20 crappie per day assumed.
1. How many crappie can two people haveon one boat while fishing?
Technicallyspeaking, only as many as each of the two people caught, not to exceed 20 perperson. Realistically, we don’t typically watch people for the length of timenecessary to document the number each person catches, and if we check them withforty fish, we give them the unsaid benefit of the doubt that each caughttwenty. But if one of them caught 30 and the other caught 10, the one whocaught 30 is in violation even though he likely won’t be prosecuted because wecan’t prove it. We call it “party fishing” and we write a lot of people for iton trout waters just because we CAN watch and document for the much shorterlength of time necessary to catch five or more trout.
2. How many crappie can two people havein one cooler at a boat ramp?
Same as (1)
3. How many crappie can one person havein a cooler while driving back home?
He canhave forty if returning from a multi-day fishing trip and he caught nomore than twenty each day, or forty if he has written info as required by codeto possess another’s wildlife. Otherwise, only as many as he caught that dayhimself.
4. Can a person take home 40 fish inone cooler if his fishing buddy game him his fish?
See (3)
5. Does he need a written note or some kind oftransfer form to do this? Kind of like the form that is used if someone givesyou some venison they shot?
Yes.Precisely. P. 27 reg pamphlet.