{ "name": "Striped bass bag and size limits by U.S. state (FishLimit)", "description": "Daily limits, length rules and season notes for striped bass in Indiana, Texas and Virginia, one row per rule as published by each state wildlife agency. Every row carries the agency source URL and the date it was last verified.", "publisher": "FishLimit", "url": "https://fishlimit.com/fishing/striped-bass/", "date_modified": "2026-11-04", "temporal_coverage": "2026-01-01/2027-08-31", "notice": "Facts restated from official state wildlife agency sources; always verify with the agency before you fish or hunt. FishLimit is independent and is not a legal source of regulations.", "columns": [ { "key": "state", "description": "Two-letter U.S. state code." }, { "key": "state_name", "description": "State name." }, { "key": "species", "description": "Species slug used in FishLimit URLs." }, { "key": "species_name", "description": "Species name." }, { "key": "agency", "description": "State wildlife agency that publishes the rule." }, { "key": "regs_valid", "description": "Regulation period the figures apply to, as stated by the agency." }, { "key": "scope", "description": "Waters or area the rule covers (for example statewide or a named water)." }, { "key": "season", "description": "Open season or date window, when the rule is seasonal." }, { "key": "daily_limit", "description": "Daily bag limit, restated." }, { "key": "size_rule", "description": "Minimum, maximum or slot length rule, restated." }, { "key": "note", "description": "Exception or clarification attached to the rule." }, { "key": "source_url", "description": "Official state agency page the figures were read from." }, { "key": "source_title", "description": "Title of that agency page." }, { "key": "last_verified", "description": "Date (YYYY-MM-DD) FishLimit last checked the agency page." } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.eregulations.com/assets/docs/guides/26INFW_LR.pdf", "title": "2026-2027 Indiana Fishing Regulations Guide (DNR publication, pp. 8, 24, 26): Indiana DNR", "agency": "Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Fish & Wildlife" }, { "url": "https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/fishing/freshwater-fishing/bag-length-limits", "title": "Freshwater Bag and Length Limits (Striped and hybrid striped bass): Texas Parks & Wildlife Department", "agency": "Texas Parks & Wildlife Department" }, { "url": "https://dwr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/creel-and-length-limits.pdf", "title": "Creel (harvest) and length limits, 2026 Virginia Freshwater Fishing & Boating (p. 23): Virginia DWR", "agency": "Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources" } ], "rows": [ { "state": "IN", "state_name": "Indiana", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Fish & Wildlife", "regs_valid": "April 2026 through March 31, 2027", "scope": "Statewide (lakes, rivers and streams away from the Ohio River)", "season": "Open all year", "daily_limit": "2 per day", "size_rule": "No minimum length", "note": "This bag is striped bass only. Hybrid striped bass count with white bass: 12 a day combined, no minimum length, no more than 2 over 17 inches. Possession is twice the daily bag (4 striped bass) and does not apply to fish processed and stored at your primary residence.", "source_url": "https://www.eregulations.com/assets/docs/guides/26INFW_LR.pdf", "source_title": "2026-2027 Indiana Fishing Regulations Guide (DNR publication, pp. 8, 24, 26): Indiana DNR", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "IN", "state_name": "Indiana", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Fish & Wildlife", "regs_valid": "April 2026 through March 31, 2027", "scope": "Ohio River main stem (Indiana waters; not the tributaries or embayments)", "season": "", "daily_limit": "30 per day, white, yellow, striped and hybrid striped bass combined", "size_rule": "No minimum length; no more than 4 fish 15 inches or longer", "note": "The statewide table's only striped bass footnote points here. Indiana and Kentucky honor each other's fishing licenses on the main stem, bank to bank. Within 200 yards below an Ohio River dam you may fish only with a pole or hand line.", "source_url": "https://www.eregulations.com/assets/docs/guides/26INFW_LR.pdf", "source_title": "2026-2027 Indiana Fishing Regulations Guide (DNR publication, pp. 8, 24, 26): Indiana DNR", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "TX", "state_name": "Texas", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Texas Parks & Wildlife Department", "regs_valid": "Sept. 1, 2026 through Aug. 31, 2027", "scope": "Statewide public fresh water (no listed exception)", "season": "Open all year", "daily_limit": "5 per day, striped bass and hybrid striped bass combined", "size_rule": "Minimum length 18 inches", "note": "Hybrids are also called palmetto or sunshine bass. Possession is twice the statewide daily bag, so 10, except on Lake Texoma. White bass are a separate 25-fish, 10-inch bag. Yellow bass have no daily bag and no length limit.", "source_url": "https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/fishing/freshwater-fishing/bag-length-limits", "source_title": "Freshwater Bag and Length Limits (Striped and hybrid striped bass): Texas Parks & Wildlife Department", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "TX", "state_name": "Texas", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Texas Parks & Wildlife Department", "regs_valid": "Sept. 1, 2026 through Aug. 31, 2027", "scope": "Lake Texoma", "season": "Open all year", "daily_limit": "10 per day, striped bass and hybrid striped bass combined", "size_rule": "No minimum length; only 2 fish 20 inches or longer", "note": "Possession limit is 20. Culling striped bass and hybrid striped bass is prohibited. The statewide bag page names Lake Texoma as the possession exception for striped bass.", "source_url": "https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/fishing/freshwater-fishing/bag-length-limits", "source_title": "Freshwater Bag and Length Limits (Striped and hybrid striped bass): Texas Parks & Wildlife Department", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "TX", "state_name": "Texas", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Texas Parks & Wildlife Department", "regs_valid": "Sept. 1, 2026 through Aug. 31, 2027", "scope": "Toledo Bend Reservoir, and the Sabine River from Toledo Bend Dam to the I.H. 10 bridge", "season": "Open all year", "daily_limit": "5 per day", "size_rule": "No minimum length; only 2 striped bass 30 inches or longer", "note": "Both water pages title the row 'Striped bass and their Hybrids,' then state the bag and the 30-inch cap for striped bass only. They do not repeat 'hybrid' in that sentence, so this page does not give hybrids their own number there.", "source_url": "https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/fishing/freshwater-fishing/bag-length-limits", "source_title": "Freshwater Bag and Length Limits (Striped and hybrid striped bass): Texas Parks & Wildlife Department", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "TX", "state_name": "Texas", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Texas Parks & Wildlife Department", "regs_valid": "Sept. 1, 2026 through Aug. 31, 2027", "scope": "Trinity River from Lake Livingston Dam downstream to the FM Road 3278 bridge", "season": "Open all year", "daily_limit": "2 per day", "size_rule": "Minimum length 18 inches", "note": "The Trinity page puts this under 'Striped bass and their Hybrids' and then names striped bass in the sentence. It does not set a separate possession number, so the statewide possession rule (twice the statewide daily bag) is the one that applies.", "source_url": "https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/fishing/freshwater-fishing/bag-length-limits", "source_title": "Freshwater Bag and Length Limits (Striped and hybrid striped bass): Texas Parks & Wildlife Department", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "TX", "state_name": "Texas", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Texas Parks & Wildlife Department", "regs_valid": "Sept. 1, 2026 through Aug. 31, 2027", "scope": "Community Fishing Lakes and other small waters that use a 5-fish, all-species cap", "season": "", "daily_limit": "5 fish per day, all species combined (striped bass and hybrids included)", "size_rule": "No minimum length for striped bass", "note": "Community Fishing Lakes are public lakes of 75 acres or less inside a city or a municipal, county or state park. Pole and line only, no more than two poles. Only 1 of the 5 may be a black bass, and it must be 14 inches or longer. The same 5-fish cap, with that black bass rule, is on Canyon Lake Project #6, Como (Fort Worth), Elm, Madisonville, Pilant, Tucker Lake, Deputy Darren Goforth Park Lake, Brushy Creek Lake and Brushy Creek down to the Williamson/Milam County line, the North Concho River (O.C. Fisher Dam to Bell Street Dam) and the South Concho River (Lone Wolf Dam to Bell Street Dam). Generations Park, Nelson Park, Forest Park (Denton), Buck Lake, and Lost Maples Upper and Lower use a 5-fish cap that skips catch-and-release species and sets no minimum length; black bass there are catch-and-release. Lake Kyle is the same 5-fish cap, and largemouth bass, channel catfish and sunfish are the catch-and-release species.", "source_url": "https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/fishing/freshwater-fishing/bag-length-limits", "source_title": "Freshwater Bag and Length Limits (Striped and hybrid striped bass): Texas Parks & Wildlife Department", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "VA", "state_name": "Virginia", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources", "regs_valid": "January 2026 through Dec. 31, 2026", "scope": "Statewide landlocked waters (no listed exception)", "season": "Open all year", "daily_limit": "4 per day, landlocked striped bass and landlocked striped bass x white bass hybrids combined", "size_rule": "Minimum length 20 inches", "note": "The 2026 digest sets a year-round season for freshwater fish other than the trout closures and some nongame methods. This row is the landlocked rule. Coastal fish are a different row below.", "source_url": "https://dwr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/creel-and-length-limits.pdf", "source_title": "Creel (harvest) and length limits, 2026 Virginia Freshwater Fishing & Boating (p. 23): Virginia DWR", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "VA", "state_name": "Virginia", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources", "regs_valid": "January 2026 through Dec. 31, 2026", "scope": "Buggs Island Lake (Kerr Reservoir), including the Staunton (Roanoke) River and its tributaries to Leesville Dam and the Dan River and its tributaries to the Union Street Dam (Danville)", "season": "October 1 through May 31", "daily_limit": "2 per day, striped bass and hybrid striped bass combined", "size_rule": "Only fish from 20 to 26 inches may be kept", "note": "DWR's line bars any striped bass or hybrid under 20 inches or over 26 inches.", "source_url": "https://dwr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/creel-and-length-limits.pdf", "source_title": "Creel (harvest) and length limits, 2026 Virginia Freshwater Fishing & Boating (p. 23): Virginia DWR", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "VA", "state_name": "Virginia", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources", "regs_valid": "January 2026 through Dec. 31, 2026", "scope": "Buggs Island Lake (Kerr Reservoir), including the Staunton (Roanoke) River to Leesville Dam and the Dan River to the Union Street Dam (Danville)", "season": "June 1 through September 30", "daily_limit": "4 per day, striped bass and hybrid striped bass combined", "size_rule": "No length limit", "note": "", "source_url": "https://dwr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/creel-and-length-limits.pdf", "source_title": "Creel (harvest) and length limits, 2026 Virginia Freshwater Fishing & Boating (p. 23): Virginia DWR", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "VA", "state_name": "Virginia", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources", "regs_valid": "January 2026 through Dec. 31, 2026", "scope": "Claytor Lake and its tributaries", "season": "September 16 through June 30", "daily_limit": "2 per day, striped bass and hybrid bass combined", "size_rule": "Minimum length 20 inches", "note": "", "source_url": "https://dwr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/creel-and-length-limits.pdf", "source_title": "Creel (harvest) and length limits, 2026 Virginia Freshwater Fishing & Boating (p. 23): Virginia DWR", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "VA", "state_name": "Virginia", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources", "regs_valid": "January 2026 through Dec. 31, 2026", "scope": "Claytor Lake and its tributaries", "season": "July 1 through September 15", "daily_limit": "4 per day, striped bass and hybrid bass combined", "size_rule": "No length limit", "note": "", "source_url": "https://dwr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/creel-and-length-limits.pdf", "source_title": "Creel (harvest) and length limits, 2026 Virginia Freshwater Fishing & Boating (p. 23): Virginia DWR", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "VA", "state_name": "Virginia", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources", "regs_valid": "January 2026 through Dec. 31, 2026", "scope": "Lake Gaston", "season": "October 1 through May 31", "daily_limit": "4 per day, striped bass and hybrid striped bass combined", "size_rule": "Minimum length 20 inches", "note": "", "source_url": "https://dwr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/creel-and-length-limits.pdf", "source_title": "Creel (harvest) and length limits, 2026 Virginia Freshwater Fishing & Boating (p. 23): Virginia DWR", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "VA", "state_name": "Virginia", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources", "regs_valid": "January 2026 through Dec. 31, 2026", "scope": "Lake Gaston", "season": "June 1 through September 30", "daily_limit": "4 per day, striped bass and hybrid striped bass combined", "size_rule": "No length limit", "note": "", "source_url": "https://dwr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/creel-and-length-limits.pdf", "source_title": "Creel (harvest) and length limits, 2026 Virginia Freshwater Fishing & Boating (p. 23): Virginia DWR", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "VA", "state_name": "Virginia", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources", "regs_valid": "January 2026 through Dec. 31, 2026", "scope": "Smith Mountain Lake and its tributaries, including the Roanoke River upstream to Niagara Dam", "season": "November 1 through May 31", "daily_limit": "2 per day, in the aggregate (combined)", "size_rule": "No striped bass from 30 to 40 inches may be kept", "note": "The length line names striped bass and does not mention hybrids. It also does not say whether a fish under 30 inches or over 40 inches may be kept, so ask DWR before you keep one outside that range.", "source_url": "https://dwr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/creel-and-length-limits.pdf", "source_title": "Creel (harvest) and length limits, 2026 Virginia Freshwater Fishing & Boating (p. 23): Virginia DWR", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "VA", "state_name": "Virginia", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources", "regs_valid": "January 2026 through Dec. 31, 2026", "scope": "Smith Mountain Lake and its tributaries, including the Roanoke River upstream to Niagara Dam", "season": "June 1 through October 31", "daily_limit": "2 per day, in the aggregate (combined)", "size_rule": "No length limit", "note": "", "source_url": "https://dwr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/creel-and-length-limits.pdf", "source_title": "Creel (harvest) and length limits, 2026 Virginia Freshwater Fishing & Boating (p. 23): Virginia DWR", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "VA", "state_name": "Virginia", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources", "regs_valid": "January 2026 through Dec. 31, 2026", "scope": "Anadromous (coastal) striped bass above the fall line in all coastal rivers of the Chesapeake Bay, and Crane Lake (City of Suffolk)", "season": "", "daily_limit": "Check source (set by the Virginia Marine Resources Commission)", "size_rule": "No length limit is printed in the DWR table", "note": "DWR's exception columns say none apply. The digest says coastal striped bass rules, above and below the fall line in tidal Chesapeake rivers, are set by the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (mrc.virginia.gov). This page does not restate a VMRC bag.", "source_url": "https://dwr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/creel-and-length-limits.pdf", "source_title": "Creel (harvest) and length limits, 2026 Virginia Freshwater Fishing & Boating (p. 23): Virginia DWR", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" }, { "state": "VA", "state_name": "Virginia", "species": "striped-bass", "species_name": "Striped bass", "agency": "Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources", "regs_valid": "January 2026 through Dec. 31, 2026", "scope": "Meherrin, Nottoway, Blackwater (Chowan drainage), North Landing and Northwest rivers and their tributaries, plus Back Bay", "season": "", "daily_limit": "None: no harvest or possession", "size_rule": "No possession", "note": "The heading on this row says striped bass. It does not say hybrid striped bass.", "source_url": "https://dwr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/creel-and-length-limits.pdf", "source_title": "Creel (harvest) and length limits, 2026 Virginia Freshwater Fishing & Boating (p. 23): Virginia DWR", "last_verified": "2026-11-04" } ] }