The daily Missouri trout limit is four fish. For rainbow trout, there is no size limit. However, harvested brown trout must measure at least fifteen inches in length. For certain blue-ribbon trout waters including Barren Fork Creek, Crane Creek, Blue Springs Creek, and Current River, the daily limit is one fish measuring at least eighteen inches in length.
Trout Limit
Information about the trout limit in different states/provinces.
Trout Limit in Tennessee
There are special exemption waters that have stricter limits on certain species as well as length limits. These can be found in the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency’s Fishing Guide under Trout Regulations.
South Dakota Trout Limit
The daily bag limit for trout in South Dakota is five fish. This includes any combination of brown, brook, rainbow, splake, lake trout, and salmon. Most of the trout species are restricted to a pocket on the western side of the state or in the Missouri River.
Trout Limit in Vermont
The daily bag limit for brown, brook, and rainbow trout for Vermont streams and rivers is eight fish, and for ponds and lakes is six fish. Harvest of more than five fish per species is prohibited. The daily bag limit for lake trout in combination with landlocked salmon is two fish.
Trout Limit in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts trout daily limit for any combination of brown, tiger, brook, and rainbow trout is eight fish from April to mid-September. But, it is three fish from mid-September through March. Only three of the daily limit can be harvested from ponds, lakes, or major rivers. Only one trout measuring at least twenty inches in…
Trout Limit in Iowa
The daily bag limit in Iowa for trout is five fish. Trout harvested in Spring Branch and brown trout harvested from parts of Bloody Run Creek must measure at least fourteen inches in length. Certain streams are only catch-and-release so no trout may be harvested from these.
Trout Limit in Georgia
Georgia waters are home to three freshwater trout species and their hybrids. Anglers may harvest up to eight of these fish per day. Speckled trout have a higher daily bag limit at fifteen fish per day. Certain waters have a lower daily bag limit than the statewide limit for freshwater trout.
Idaho Trout Limit
The Idaho daily bag limit for trout is six fish. In some regions, there are strict regulations on how many of those trout can be cutthroat trout. For trout harvested in the Clearwater Region, the daily bag limit is two fish measuring less than forty inches in length.
The Trout Limit in North Carolina
The catch limit for trout in North Carolina is four fish per day in public mountains and wild trout waters and seven fish per day in undesignated trout waters and those supported by hatcheries. The minimum total length limit of wild trout waters is seven inches while there is no length restriction for the other harvestable trout waters.
Trout Limit in Arkansas
The daily limit for harvesting trout in Arkansas is five fish with no more than two from each of the following species: cutthroat, brown, and brook. The daily limit encompasses any combination of the available trout species to catch which includes brook, brown, rainbow, and cutthroat.