howsthebite · Can I keep it?
Can I keep it?
Measure the fish, pick where you are, get a straight answer. 472 species across 27 states, read from the agencies themselves.
Pick a species and type a length.
Before you trust it
This answers from the same figures as our species pages — one source, so the tool and the pages cannot drift apart. The open-or-closed status was worked out when the site was built this morning.
The agency is the one that counts. Every answer links to the page it came from. Where an agency's own pages disagree, this tool says so instead of picking a number.
It also can't know things it wasn't told: waters with their own local rules, federal versus state boundaries, and park-specific regulations. When in doubt, the agency page is one tap away.
Fishing rules by state
Start with the state overview, then open the species page for the exact size, bag and season rule.
- Florida 20 species guides
- Texas 30 species guides
- North Carolina 20 species guides
- South Carolina 22 species guides
- Georgia 11 species guides
- Louisiana 52 species guides
- Alabama 43 species guides
- Mississippi 54 species guides
- New York 24 species guides
- Maryland 20 species guides
- New Jersey 7 species guides
- Virginia 26 species guides
- California 37 species guides
- Colorado 11 species guides
- Kansas 12 species guides
- Michigan 10 species guides
- Minnesota 11 species guides
- Montana 10 species guides
- North Dakota 13 species guides
- New Mexico 10 species guides
- Nevada 3 species guides
- Oregon 4 species guides
- Utah 5 species guides
- Wisconsin 3 species guides
- Alaska 3 species guides
- Iowa 3 species guides
- Ohio 8 species guides
