Fresh Water Fishing License Exemptions

• You have been accepted as a client for developmental disabilities services by the Department of Children and Family Services.  The department must furnish proof to such clients.

• You are a resident who is fishing with live or natural bait, using poles or lines that are not equipped with a fishing-line-retrieval mechanism, and you are fishing for noncommercial purposes in your home county.  However, you must have a valid fishing license to fish by any method in a fish management area. 

• You are fishing in a fish pond of 20 acres or less which is located entirely within the private property of its owner.  A fish pond is a man-made pond constructed for the primary purpose of fishing, entirely within the property lines of the owner and with no surface water connection to public waters.

• You are fishing in a fish pond of 20 acres or more, whose owner has purchased a fish pond license at a fee of $3 per surface acre.

• You possess a Resident Freshwater Commercial Fishing License.

• You are fishing in the St. Mary's River or Lake Seminole (but not including tributary creeks in Florida) and have a valid Georgia fishing license.

• You are freshwater fishing during Free Fishing Weekend (the first weekend of April)

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