An Oklahoma resident or nonresident fishing license is required of all persons who attempt to take, take, or possess fish or other aquatic dwelling organisms by any method. A fishing license or written evidence of exemption must be carried while fishing, which also includes the Red River. A nonresident Oklahoma fishing license must be purchased by Texas residents 64 and older.

The following persons are exempt from the resident or nonresident fishing license:

• 16 and under residents, and nonresidents who are residents of AL, AK, AR, CA, CT DE, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY LA, MD, Ml, NH, NY NC, ND, OH, TX, or WI.
• Nonresidents under 14
• Resident disabled veterans with 60 percent or more disability
• Any patient of a state institution in Oklahoma established for the care and treatment of mental illness or alcohol or drug dependency or any person developmentally disabled when accompanied by an attendant of such institution or legal guardian or when fishing on institutional property
• Oklahoma citizens in the U.S. Armed Forces serving outside Oklahoma on authorized leave and with written evidence on their person.
• Any person legally blind or physically impaired who has an accompanying companion while fishing
• Resident owners or tenants, their spouses, parents, grandparents, children and their spouses, grandchildren and their spouses who fish in private ponds on land owned or leased by such owner or tenant
• Job Corps trainees of this state
• Any person who fishes with pole and line, trotline or throw line in streams, natural ponds and mine pits in or forming the boundary of the county in which he is a bona fide resident
• Persons under 18 who are in physical and legal custody of the State of Oklahoma or its agencies
• Residents having a proven disability rendering them nonambulatory and confined to wheelchairs

• fish in a State Designated Trout Area during trout season without a Trout License
• catch fish and not bury or burn them when such fish are dead or die as a result of such act, except nothing shall stop anglers from returning fish remains to lakes and reservoirs. No person may bury or burn any dead fish where they will become exposed thru erosion or where such land is subject to overflow
• fish without carrying a license or written evidence of exemption
• use, operate or park vehicles not registered for use on public roadways on lands owned or managed by the Department of Wildlife under Vehicle Code 47 OS. 1971, 15-101 thru 15-114
• use a grabbook, except in Delaware and Mayes counties
• possess, consume or use any intoxicating beverage or controlled and/or dangerous substance on lands or waterways under the control of the Department of Wildlife
• enter, swim, wade, operate a boat or a float within a distance of fifty yards from the base of the dam
• possess fish, or parts thereof, taken by another person without written information
• use gaff hooks to assist in landing paddlefish
• fish upon the land of another without consent
• unles under commercial license to sell, barter or trade fish, frogs or turtles
• use and/or place into lakes and reservoirs any container; which attract, entice or lure fish into an open cavity
• release trout, paddlefish, striped bass and/or striped bass hybrids which are placed on a stringer, in a livewell or otherwise held in possession