--- title: 20 States Where You Can Go Fishing for Free This Weekend description: States all over the country offer special free fishing days, with most allowing people to fish for free, with no license or permit, in June. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2017-06-01T14:33:45.000Z' modified: '2024-05-16T12:27:35.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - deals - Fishing - freebies - Leisure - outdoors - Sports - Sports word_count: 379 canonical: https://money.com/go-fishing-for-free-every-state/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Man fishing in still ocean](https://img.money.com/2017/05/freefishingdays-em-166263318.jpg) The early days of June always start with a couple of sweet freebies: The first Friday features free donuts for National Doughnut Day, and the weekend after allows for free fishing at many lakes, rivers, and seashores all over the country. To get people hooked on the sport, the [Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation](http://news.takemefishing.org/2017-05-30-Get-Hooked-on-National-Fishing-and-Boating-Week) sponsors an annual [Take Me Fishing Week](http://news.takemefishing.org/2017-05-30-Get-Hooked-on-National-Fishing-and-Boating-Week) during the first full week of June, and it kicks off with free fishing in many states. A total of 20 states, plus the District of Columbia, offer free fishing on public bodies of water, with no permit or license required, at some point this weekend. Here are the dates and details: Arizona: June 3 Colorado: June 3-4 Delaware: June 3-4 Georgia: June 3 Iowa: June 2-4 Indiana: June 3-4 Kansas: June 3-4 Kentucky: June 3-4 Maine: June 3-4 Maryland: June 3 Massachusetts; June 3-4 Mississippi: June 3-4 New Hampshire: June 3 New Mexico: June 4 North Dakota: June 3-4 Oklahoma: June 3-4 Oregon: June 3-4 Texas: June 3 Washington, D.C.: June 2-4 Wisconsin: June 3-4 Wyoming: June 3 There's also Hawaii, where marine fishing is free year-round. In other states, [free fishing days](https://www.takemefishing.org/how-to-fish/how-to-catch-fish/free-fishing-days-2017/) vary, with some offering free fishing later in the summer, or even sometimes in the dead of winter. (Alaska is the only state that doesn't offer any free fishing days, but a couple of states -- including Connecticut, Ohio, and others -- have free-fishing days in May or even earlier.) Here are all the states that have free-fishing days during the rest of this year: Alabama: June 10 Arkansas: June 9-11 California: July 1, September 2 Florida: Saturday after Thanksgiving Georgia: June 10, September 23 Hawaii: Year-round for marine fishingIdaho: June 10 Illinois: June 16-19 Louisiana: June 10-11 Maryland: June 10, July 4 Michigan: June 10-11 Minnesota: June 9-11 Mississippi: July 4 Montana: June 17-18 Nevada: June 10 New Jersey: June 10, October 21 New Mexico: September 24 New York: June 24-25, November 11 North Carolina: July 4 North Dakota: December 30-31 Pennsylvania: July 4 South Carolina: July 4 Tennessee: June 10 Utah: June 10 Virginia: June 2-4 Washington: June 10-11 West Virginia: June 10-11 For more special freebie days, check out our full calendar listing events featuring free stuff throughout the year. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/go-fishing-for-free-every-state/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Sports", "item": "https://money.com/sports/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "20 States Where You Can Go Fishing for Free This Weekend" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/go-fishing-for-free-every-state/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/go-fishing-for-free-every-state/", "name": "20 States Where You Can Go Fishing for Free This Weekend", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2017-06-01T14:33:45.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/go-fishing-for-free-every-state/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/go-fishing-for-free-every-state/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-05-16T12:27:35.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "20 States Where You Can Go Fishing for Free This Weekend", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2017/05/freefishingdays-em-166263318.jpg", "width": 5200, "height": 3467, "caption": "Man fishing in still ocean" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2017-06-01T14:33:45.000Z", "description": "States all over the country offer special free fishing days, with most allowing people to fish for free, with no license or permit, in June.", "abstract": "States all over the country offer special free fishing days, with most allowing people to fish for free, with no license or permit, in June.", "@id": "https://money.com/go-fishing-for-free-every-state/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-05-16T12:27:35.000Z", "wordCount": 379, "keywords": [ "deals", "Fishing", "freebies", "Leisure", "outdoors", "Sports", "Sports" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Sport", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport" ] } ] } ] } ```