Okla. Stat. tit. 29, § 29-6-303

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A. No person may take, kill, or catch or attempt to take, kill,

or catch any nongame fish from the waters of this state or assist in

any such endeavor in any manner except as follows:

1. By all legal hook and line methods in state waters legally

open to these methods; and

2. By nets or seines used to take nongame fish only in such

waters as are declared open to such nets or seines by the

Commission. Such nets or seines shall:

a. be hoop nets with a mesh size no smaller than three-

inch square mesh, or gill nets, trammel nets, or

seines with a mesh size no smaller than four-inch

square mesh, and

b. have the name and address of the owner attached

thereto if the net is to be left unattended, and

c. be attended once every twenty-four (24) hours.

Each license holder shall be limited to a maximum of three

hundred (300) feet of net or a total of four hoop nets in the water

at any time.

No fish taken pursuant to this noncommercial netting provision

can be sold or transported from the state.

Noncommercial netting shall be prohibited statewide during April

and May annually; and

3. By arrows, gigs, ropes, grab hooks, spears, and spearguns

used by divers equipped with self-contained underwater breathing

apparatus. Such gigs or spears may have no more than three points

with not more than two barbs on each point; and

4. By noodling; and

5. By cast nets and handheld dip nets used to take only nongame

fish as bait for personal use in all waters of the state except

those closed by the Commission. The cast nets shall have a mesh

size no greater than three-eighths-inch square mesh; and

6. By trawl nets pulled by motor-driven boats. Such nets may

be used to take only nongame fish as bait for personal use in all

waters of the state except those closed by the Commission. Trawl

nets may not exceed three (3) feet in diameter with no greater than

three-eighths-inch square mesh.

B. The Commission shall have authority to designate by

regulation areas, waters of this state, or parts thereof for the

taking, catching, or killing of nongame fish by noodling or by the

use of arrows, gigs, cast nets, dip nets, spears, ropes, grab hooks,

and spearguns used by divers equipped with self-contained underwater

breathing apparatus, and to also designate the times such may be

used.

C. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, any

person convicted of violating the provisions of this section shall

be punished by the imposition of a fine not less than One Hundred

Dollars ($100.00).

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2. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this

section by netting, snaglining or selling nongame fish shall be

punished by imposition of a fine of not less than One Hundred

Dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a

period not to exceed thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and

imprisonment. Any person, upon conviction of a second or subsequent

violation of the provisions of this section by netting, snaglining

or selling nongame fish when said violation occurred within two (2)

years of a previous conviction for violating said provisions, shall

be punished by imposition of a fine of not less than Five Hundred

Dollars ($500.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or

by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed ninety

(90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. In addition, all

fishing licenses and all fishing privileges within the state of such

person shall be revoked for a period of one (1) year from the date

of such conviction.

D. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the taking of nongame

fish by licensed commercial fishing and commercial minnow seining as

provided for in Sections 6-201, 6-202 and 6-401 of this title.