French Broad River
The rule for this water, with the receipt.
Special regulations for French Broad River, as the state words them
NC County · River · NC
The rules for this water, verbatimOfficial text
Straight from NC's official regulations. Rules in force today lead; out-of-season rows are dimmed. Nothing is paraphrased. Not legal advice: verify the posted rules at the water.
- All fishTransylvania County
Statewide base layerParsed
These defaults apply where the rules above do not modify them.
- Season
- Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
- Gear
- Inland game fish may be taken only with a hook and line.Statewide
- Bait
- Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
- Poles
- Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Where the verbatim rules above name a species, season, or limit, they replace the rows below. Each row is tagged with the layer it comes from.
| Species | Daily limit | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|
trout | seven trout per day | min. no size limit | Statewide |
inland game fish | three days' creel limit | - | Statewide |
American or hickory shad | 10 American or hickory shad in total per day | - | Statewide |
nongame fish, crayfish, and mollusks | 200 nongame fish, crayfish, and mollusks, in combination | - | Statewide |
American eel | See size | min. greater than 9 inches in length and with a minimum body depth greater than 1/2 inch | Statewide |
snapping turtles | Limits for snapping turtles are 10 per day and 100 per year. | min. No snapping turtle less than 13 inches (curved top shell length) may be collected. | Statewide |
bullfrogs | The daily bag limit (from 12:00 noon to 12:00 noon) for taking bullfrogs is 24 | - | Statewide |
How this answer was assembled
- StatewideStatewide river rules are the base layer: default season, gear, bait, and limits.
- This waterSpecial rules written for this exact water replace the statewide defaults where they speak.
- Emergency orderEmergency orders in effect today override everything else. They sync quietly when the phone has coverage and never lock you out of the app.
Where this section begins and ends
This water is not yet drawn on the map. Its rules are captured and receipted; the geometry ledger records exactly why it is not drawn (an ambiguous name match or a gap in the source data), and it will never ship as a guess. Each rule above describes in the state's own words where it applies, and those written descriptions are the authoritative boundaries.
What are you fishing for here?Advice
Pick from the species named in French Broad River's rules. Setups are checked against the gear rules in force today, and your picks are remembered on this device only. These are rule-aware suggestions, not a claim about what is biting; advice, not law, and the rules above govern.
Receipts
Local services near French Broad River
Tackle shops, guides, and boat launches that serve this water will appear here - a separate lane below the rules, so a local business can reach you without ever getting between you and the regulation.
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