Kansas Fishing License Info
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Kansas Fishing License Requirements
Fishing License Information:
Fishing License Requirements:
Persons age 16 through 64, who have been bina-fide residents of the state of 60 days immediately prior to buying a license, must have a resident license in possession while fishing in Kansas. All licenses expire Dec. 31 each year, except five-day nonresident, lifetime and 24-hour fishing licenses.
Landowners and their immediate family living with them, and tenants renting land for agricultural purposes and members of their immediate family living with them are exempt from fishing license requirements on waters on their own land, even if such waters have been stocked by the Department. If a private pond has been stocked within the last 10 years, guests of the landowner or tenant must have fishing licenses. Otherwise, fishing licenses aren ot required on private ponds. Guests of landowners fishing on streams and rivers must have a fishing licenses.
Anyone residing in Kansas who is at least one-sixteenth American Indian by blood, and so certified by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, may apply to Wildlife and Parks for a free fishing license, which must be in possession when fishing. All other laws and regulations apply to American Indians.
Persons on active duty in the armed forces who entered the service while residing in Kansas may purchase a resident fishing license. Nonresidents on active military duty stationed in Kansas and nonresident students going to school in Kansas are entitled to purchase a resident fishing license, which they must have with them while fishing, along with evidence of active duty or enrollment.
All nonresidents 16 and older must have a valid nonresident license to fish in Kansas (unless fishing on a private pond).
