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Striped bass on the Atlantic Coast may travel hundreds of miles from the ocean to freshwater bays to spawn. Thanks to the efforts of Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists, some landlocked stripers in Beaver, Norfork and Ouachita lakes can claim a spawning run measuring thousands of miles. Hatchery staff transported a load of striped bass fingerlings in early July from Watha, N.C. on a 2,200-mile road trip that lasted nearly 72 hours from start to finish. Typically, striped bass stocked i...

Thanks to a proclamation by Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Friday, anyone may fish in Arkansas without a fishing license or trout stamp from noon on Friday, June

The proclamation was read at today's commission meeting by Megan Perkins, agriculture liaison to Hutchinson's office.