A $5 Warm Water Fish license is required to possess warm water game fish caught on designated waters in Montana’s Central and Eastern Fishing Districts.
Some of the most popular warm water sport fish include: largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, burbot, walleye, sauger, black crappie, white crappie, channel catfish, yellow perch, northern pike, and tiger muskellunge.
The license, established in a law passed by the 1999 Montana State Legislature, is helping to fund a new multi-species fish hatchery near Fort Peck Dam. Resident and nonresident anglers (except resident youth under 15, resident seniors and resident disabled anglers) will need the license on the following waters:
Central Fishing District:
Big Casino Creek Reservoir, Fergus County
Bighorn Lake, Carbon and Bighorn Counties
Bynum Reservoir, Teton County
Cooney Reservoir, Carbon County
Dailey Lake, Park County
Deadmans Basin Reservoir, Wheatland County
Kolar Reservoir #1, Judith Basin County
Kolar Reservoir #2, Judith Basin County
Kolar Reservoir #8, Judith Basin County
Lake Frances, Pondera County
Lake Josephine, Yellowstone County
Lower Carter Pond, Fergus County
Morony Dam Lake, Cascade County
Schoonover Reservoir # 1, Chouteau County
Silvan Pond, Chouteau County
Tunis Reservoir, Chouteau County
Wadsworth Reservoir, Cascade County
Warm Springs Creek, Fergus County
Eastern Fishing District:
Anita Reservoir, Yellowstone County
Arapooish Pond, Big Horn County
Bailey Reservoir, Hill County
Baker Lake, Fallon County
Bearpaw Lake, Hill County
Beaver Creek, Wibaux County
Beaver Creek Reservoir, Hill County
Box Elder Creek Reservoir, Sheridan County
Castle Rock Lake, Rosebud County
Catfish Reservoir, Fergus County
Conter’s Bass Pond, Yellowstone County
Cow Creek Reservoir, Blaine County
Dry Fork Reservoir, Blaine County
Engdahl Cottonwood Resv., Garfield County
Ester Lake, Phillips County
Fort Peck Reservoir
Fort Peck Dredge Cut Trout Pond, Valley County
Fresno Reservoir, Hill County
Gartside Lake, Richland County
Haughian Reservoir, Custer County
Hollands Reservoir, Fergus County
Homestead Reservoir, Prairie County
Hopalong Reservoir, Fergus County
Iliad Reservoir, Chouteau County
Johnson Dam, Dawson County
Lake Elmo, Yellowstone County
Little Warm Reservoir, Phillips County
Maier Reservoir, Fallon County
Nelson Reservoir, Phillips County
Payola Reservoir, Petroleum County
Petrolia Reservoir, Petroleum County
Schlesinger Reservoir #1, Rosebud County
Silvertip Reservoir, Prairie County
South Fork Dry Blood Reservoir, Petroleum
South Sandstone Reservoir, Fallon County
Talcott Pond, Carter County
Tongue River Reservoir, Big Horn County
Trumbo Pond, Garfield County
Upper Wolf Coulee Reservoir, Fergus County
Wapiti Reservoir, Phillips County
Warm Springs Creek, Fergus County
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