Pickwick

[hawgdog]

Never fished before, I have a Mississippi License......Do you have to have a Tenn or Alabama license. Do you have to stay in a Certain area if you only have one license?

[ATM]

I'm not sure. I think there is information on MDWFP website about the area a MS license is good for.

[hawgdog]

Thanks ATM

I'm not sure. I think there is information on MDWFP website about the area a MS license is good for.

[thereheis]

A Mississippi license will allow you to fish the area from Pickwick Dam ( TN ) to the mouth of Bear Creek ( Alabama ) and to Scruggs Bridge at the entrance to the Ten-Tom Waterway ( MS ).
Hope this helps.

[Jerkn Meat]

Never fished there but went there last weekend for relaxing and you definetly do not want to fish there on a Saturday.IMO

[windstone]

this is a may i got somewhere, it may help but i would double check.

[DonDon]

wish it wasn't so far from me. I love Pickwick

[crappiebandit]

Not sure ive always had both so never questioned the ms and tn part.

[CatchumDeep]

Mississippi and Tennessee reciprocate on license. It's my understanding that you can fish any of the Mississippi water with a Tennessee license but you cannot fish the Alabama water with a Tennessee licese. Mississippi license allow you to fish all the area shaded in red in above map.

[canebreaker]

This is what I find for Pickwick in the Alabama book of rules.

RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT - TENNESSEE
Reciprocal Agreement Pertaining to Tennessee River-Pickwick Lake. A
reciprocal agreement is in effect between the Tennessee Wildlife Resources
Agency and the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
to recognize the sport fishing licenses of the two states within the impounded
waters of the Tennessee River-Pickwick Lake lying within Hardin County,
Tennessee, and Lauderdale County, Alabama, from Pickwick Dam
(approximately TRM 207.8) upstream to where the common boundary line of
Colbert County, Alabama, and Tishomengo County, Mississippi, meet the
Lauderdale County, Alabama, boundary line at approximately TRM 224.8. It
is agreed that:
Sport fisherman duly licensed or legally exempt from license
requirements by the State of Tennessee may, without further license, fish with
ordinary hook and line, pole, casting, spinning, and fly rods and reels, and use
artificial lures and natural bait in the area of Pickwick Lake described above.
Likewise, sport fishermen duly licensed or legally exempt from license
requirements by the State of Alabama may, without further license, fish with
ordinary hook and line, pole, casting, spinning, and fly rods and reels, and use
artificial lures and natural bait in the area of Pickwick Lake described above.
Except for licenses and fishing methods covered in this agreement, all
creel limits, size limits, and other laws, rules and regulations enacted by the
State having jurisdiction must be adhered to while fishing in that state’s
waters.

MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi and Alabama are mutually recognized for fishing either the water
or from the banks of said water of the following part of the Tennessee River
or embayment or impoundments.
All that part of the Tennessee River and its embayment and
impoundments between the junction of the Tennessee-Alabama-Mississippi
line and a north-south line projected across the Tennessee River from the
eastern end of the old Riverton Lock, except and exclusive of that part of the
Big Bear Embayment lying south of the Southern Railroad bridge.

TENNESSEE RULES.
Alabama/Mississippi
Pickwick Lake: Applies to anyone with a valid Sport Fishing License from Tennessee, Alabama or Mississippi. Resident anglers of the three states may fish without purchasing a nonresident license anywhere within the boundaries covered by the agreement. The reciprocal area includes all impounded water from Pickwick Dam upstream to Tennessee River Mile 224.8 at the mouth of Bear Creek but does not include Bear Creek and does not include that portion of Yellow Creek above the Hwy. 25 Bridge. Sport fishing license holders shall abide by the regulations of the state in whose waters they are fishing.