JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is making fishing accessible for all people in the state through another weekend of free freshwater fishing.<\/p>\n
On April 4 and 5, recreational freshwater fishing will be allowed for anyone, even those without a license.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n FWC\u2019s website says<\/a>, \u201cLicense-free fishing days provide an excellent opportunity for those who don\u2019t yet have a fishing license to experience fishing, take youth fishing, or for avid anglers to introduce a friend to fishing without having to purchase a license.\u201d<\/p>\n All other rules like seasons, bag and size limits still apply.<\/p>\n This year, there is one other license-free weekend for freshwater fishing. That will be held on the second consecutive Saturday and Sunday this June.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n To see a list of FWC\u2019s best places to fish in Northeast Florida, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n If you\u2019d prefer to saltwater fish, license-free days are scheduled for the following times:<\/p>\n First consecutive Saturday and Sunday in JuneFirst Saturday in SeptemberSaturday following Thanksgiving<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is making fishing accessible for all people in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,3050,28,15748,348,97491,97490,116,351,118,117,349,3254,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-213451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-fishing","tag-florida","tag-florida-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission","tag-fox30","tag-free-fishing","tag-freshwater-fishing","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-northeast-florida","tag-recreational-fishing","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213451","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=213451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}