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Gov. Asa Hutchinson has proclaimed that anyone may fish in Arkansas without a license or trout stamp from noon on June 11, through midnight on June 13. Megan Perkins, agriculture liaison to Hutchinson’s...

Officials from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, the Trumann Chamber of Commerce and delegates from northeast Arkansas joined Gov. Asa Hutchinson at the Oak Donnick Access in Trumann...

The shovel work is finished at Lake Poinsett, but biologists are still laying the foundation for good fishing in the newly renovated lake in Poinsett County. In late April, the Arkansas Game...

Mike Knoedl Tri-County Lake in Calhoun County is one of many lakes throughout the state that’s showing its age. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Staff in south Arkansas have worked the past...

Anglers competing in the Beaver Lake Crappie Series L.O. VanZant Memorial Tournament on Beaver Lake did more than show off their skills, they also contributed to the future of fishing in northwest Arkansas. Thanks...

The polar vortex that brought snow and low temperatures to Arkansas last month also may have caused some temporary setbacks with threadfin shad populations in some lakes, but biologists at the Arkansas...

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Family and Community Fishing Program has concluded its final trout stockings for the 2020-21 winter stocking season at ponds throughout Arkansas. The stockings...

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is reminding anglers, hunters and other boaters who use the state’s waterways to be aware of a new regulation governing the removal of boat drain plugs when...

Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Wildlife Management Division staff have been clearing debris in south Arkansas from last year’s hurricane season and will be for some time. The cleanup is...

The latest editions of the Arkansas Fishing Guidebook and Arkansas Trout Fishing Guidebook are with sporting goods stores and license vendors across the state, and people looking to get the digital...