A $7.00 tribal permit for each person 12 years of age and over is
required to fish in Cherokee streams and ponds. Children under twelve
are allowed to fish with a permitted adult. Two, three, and five-day
permits are available at a reduced rate and a season's permit costs
$150.00. No other type of fishing license is required nor accepted on
the reservation.
Cherokee, NC offers thirty miles of streams and
three well-stocked ponds which are located on Big Cove Road in front
of the KOA Campground. A tribal permit is required to fish in both the
streams and the ponds
Most of March is closed to fishing with the
annual season opening the last Saturday of March, continuing for
eleven months and ending the last day of February the following year.
Throughout the season, fishing is allowed from one-half hour before
sunrise to one-half hour after sunset. Creel limit is ten trout per
day per permit holder.
Regular stocking of the streams is the
responsibility of Cherokee Fish and Game Management that each year
adds nearly 400,000 trout to an existing population of fish. These
supplemental stockings include rainbow, brook and brown trout of
various sizes ranging up to trophy size. |
