The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is opening a pilot program to benefit landowners in Arkansas’s alligator country as well as hunters who are looking to draw one of the state’s coveted public alligator hunting permits
In 2022, the AGFC began work with the ADA Natural Resources Division on a grant to restore stream connectivity to the Little River Watershed by removing four failing low-water crossings that blocked the passage of many aquatic organisms
The previous record skipjack was caught two months earlier in Russellville
In addition to being the first Arkansas Water Trail in this corner of the state, the Upper Illinois River Water Trail is the first in the AGFC’s list to span two states
Although this is the highest harvest since 2006, Arkansas’s record turkey harvest was in 2003, when hunters checked 19,947 birds
Eighteen largemouth weighing more than 10 pounds each are sitting in the newly renovated hatch house of the Joe Hogan State Fish Hatchery, thanks to anglers participating in the inaugural year of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Arkansas Legacy Lunker program
Fifteen permits (Five either sex and 10 antlerless) will be available for public draw through online applications this season
