Anyone who fishes must have the appropriate lifetime, annual or daily fishing permit or qualify for an exemption.
The following do not need a lifetime, annual or daily fishing permit, but must purchase a daily fishing tag or trout permit when or where required:
- any Missouri resident 65 years of age or older, and any person (resident or nonresident) 15 years of age or younger. (Note: Youngsters fishing without a permit are limited to the following methods--pole and line, gig, bow, crossbow, snaring, grabbing and snagging)
- any Missouri resident with a visual acuity not exceeding 20/200 in the better eye with maximum correction, or having 20 degree or less field of visual concentric contraction. Must carry a certified statement of eligibility from a licensed ophthalmologist, optometrist or physician
- any Missouri resident who is so severely and permanently disabled as to be unable to move freely without the aid of a wheelchair. Must carry a certified statement of eligibility from a licensed physician
- any Missouri resident with cerebral palsy or mental retardation as defined in Missouri Revised Statutes, section 630.005, and who is so severely disabled that he or she cannot fish alone. Must be accompanied by a licensed adult angler and possess a certified statement of eligibility from a licensed physician qualified to evaluate and treat the developmentally disabled
- any Missouri resident who is an honorably discharged veteran who has a service-related disability of 60 percent or greater, or who was a prisoner of war during military service. Must carry a certified statement of eligibility from the Veterans Administration
Any person--without permit and prescribed are daily fishing tag--may fish during Free Fishing Days, June 7 and 8, 2008.
A Missouri resident, for permit purposes, is a person who does not claim resident privileges in another state or country, and whose actual residence and legal permanent home address are both in Missouri, and have been for at least 30 days before applying for the permit. Owning real estate or attending a Missouri school does not in itself make you a legal resident. Immigrants who possess an I-551 Resident Alien Card may receive resident permit privileges if they meet the resident requirements listed above.
Licenses are valid from date of purchase through the last day of February 2009.
You can purchase or replace your permits:
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Bow: A device drawn and held by hand and not fastened to a stock nor to any other mechanism that maintains the device in a drawn position. This definition includes longbows, recurve bows and compound bows.
Flies, Lures and Baits: The following classes of lures are authorized for use.
- Natural and Scented Baits--A natural fish food such as bait fish, crayfish, frogs permitted as bait, grubs, insects, larvae, worms, salmon eggs, cheese, corn and other food substances not containing any ingredient to stupefy, injure or kill fish. Does not include flies or artificial lures. Includes dough bait, putty or paste-type bait, any substance designed to attract fish by taste or smell and any fly, lure or bait containing or used with such substances.
- Soft Plastic Bait (unscented)--Synthetic eggs, synthetic worms, synthetic grubs and soft plastic lures.
- Artificial Lure--A lure constructed of any material excluding soft plastic bait and natural and scented bait.
- Fly--An artificial lure constructed on a single-point hook, using any material except soft plastic bait and natural and scented bait as defined above, that is tied, glued or otherwise permanently attached.
Days or Dates: All days and dates are inclusive. A day begins or ends at midnight, unless otherwise specified.
Endangered Fish: Lake sturgeon, pallid sturgeon, taillight shiner, Neosho madtom, spring cavefish, harlequin darter, goldstripe darter, cypress minnow, central mudminnow, crystal darter, swamp darter, Ozark cavefish, Niangua darter, Sabine shiner, mountain madtom, redfin darter, longnose darter, flathead chub, Topeka shiner. These fish may not be kept.
Game Fish: Goggle-eye (commonly known as Ozark bass, rock bass and shadow bass), warmouth, northern pike, muskellunge, tiger muskie, muskie-pike hybrid, chain pickerel, grass pickerel, all species of catfish except bullheads, all species of black bass (largemouth, smallmouth and spotted), paddlefish (spoonbill), all species of crappie, white bass, yellow bass and striped bass, trout, walleye, sauger and shovelnose sturgeon.
Grabbing: Snagging or attempting t snag a fish by means of a pole, line and hook manipulated by hand.
Hook: Single or multiple-pronged hooks and ordinary artificial lures with attached single or multiple-pronged hooks and dropper flies. A multiple-pronged hook, or 22 or more hooks used to hold a single bait are considered a single hook.
Nongame Fish: All species other than those listed as endangered or defined as game fish. Nongame fish are referred to as "other fish" in the Wildlife Code.
Pole or Rod and Line: Fishing tackle normally held in the hand, such as a cane pole, casting rod, spinning rod or fly rod, to which not more than 3 hooks with bait or lures are attached. Does not include snagging, snaring, grabbing, trotlines, juglines, or other tackle normally attached in a fixed position. |
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