Regulations & Licenses

Texas fishing regulations require a valid license to set, tend, and harvest fish from a trotline in public waters.

Texas trotline and jugline gear tag rules require the owner name and address or customer number to prevent ghost fishing.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department regulations explain if anglers can legally use live bait on trotlines in public waters.

Texas jugline regulations require anglers to mark free-floating fishing gear with a white float displaying contact information.

Texas freshwater fishing regulations enforce a strict limit of fifty hooks per single trotline device set in public waters.

Texas trotline hook limits and fishing regulations for channel catfish and flathead catfish help anglers fish legally in reservoirs.

Texas striped bass regulations set a daily bag limit of five fish and an eighteen-inch minimum length statewide, while Lake Texoma allows ten.

Texas flounder regulations include a fifteen inch minimum length limit and specific seasonal closure dates to protect spawning fish.

Texas flounder season closure rules explain the biological reasons for protecting spawning fish during the autumn migration.

Texas flounder season dates, including the November harvest closure and fall migration period, are detailed for anglers.