{"id":212629,"date":"2026-03-31T04:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212629\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:38:30","slug":"floridas-license-free-freshwater-fishing-weekend-april-4-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212629\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s license-free freshwater fishing weekend: April 4-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG\/WECP) &#8211; On April 4\u20135, you can fish license-free in Florida\u2019s freshwater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) offers several license-free weekends each year, and one is coming up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida residents and visitors can participate, but seasonal regulations, bag limits, and all other rules still apply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Additional license-free days for freshwater and saltwater can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/license\/recreational\/do-i-need-one\/free-fishing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/license\/recreational\/do-i-need-one\/free-fishing\/\">FWC\u2019s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To stay up to date on all the latest news as it develops, follow WJHG on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NEWS7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wjhgtv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WJHG_TV\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WJHG_TV\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Have a news tip or see an error that needs correction? Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhg.com\/2026\/03\/30\/floridas-license-free-freshwater-fishing-weekend-april-4-5\/mailto:news@wjhg.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news@wjhg.com<\/a>. Please include the article\u2019s headline in your message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Keep up with all the biggest headlines on the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-news\/id420768788\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-news\/id420768788\" target=\"_blank\">WJHG News app<\/a>, and check out what\u2019s happening outside using the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-weather\/id1358847597\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-weather\/id1358847597\" target=\"_blank\">WJHG Weather app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WJHG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG\/WECP) &#8211; On April 4\u20135, you can fish license-free in Florida\u2019s freshwater. The Florida Fish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3050,97235,28,30,29,5878,4747,97234,97233],"class_list":["post-212629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-fishing","tag-fishing-without-a-license","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-freshwater","tag-fwc","tag-license-free-fishing","tag-license-free-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}