Fishing Regulation 2020 & licenses
The choice of the technique and tackle is free but you have to respect the fishing rules.
In 1st category waters:
Fishing is allowed with only one rod, close to the angler, and one line equipped with 2 hooks or 3 artificial flies at most, or with 6 crayfish scoopnets at most or with a 2 Liters minnow bottle. Maggots and other dipteria grubs are forbidden.
Kruth Wildenstein Lake: Fishing is authorised with 2 rods, maggots (only as hookbait) and from non-motorised boats. For more information please contact the “Syndicat Mixte du Barrage de Kruth Wildenstein” per phone at the 03 89 82 26 46.
In 2nd category waters
Fishing is allowed with 4 rods equipped with at most 2 hooks or 3 artificial flies, or 6 crayfish scoopnets or an at most 2 Liters minnow bottle. The rods must be close to the angler. The 50 meters upstream of a dam can only be fished with one rod. Fishing with one line is allowed through all the public waters of France.
Specific sections: Nightfishing, No kill, …
Federal no-kill ponds: The Vauban and Courtavon Lakes
Rhine no kill section:
From the Petit Landeau army ramp to the Ottmarsheim army ramp.
Recommendation: use a net to shorten the fight and to limit the fish’s stress reactions, take photos fastest, hold the fish underwater.
Night fishing for carp is allowed on:
Nightfishing for carp has to be catch and release:
Restrictions: prohibited techniques and baits
Only the baits mentioned in the “How to fish?” paragraph are allowed.
Following points are forbidden:
Fishing is forbidden:
Access and parking is forbidden inside the “Security Zones” (read Arrêté Préfectoral and cahier des Charges pour l’Exploitation du Droit de Pêche de l’Etat currently effective and available on our website www.peche68.fr )
The Haut- Rhin Departement is full of healthy rivers, mountain lakes and fishponds. You will always find the great spot to live your passion.
Check the interactive map to find your spot and access:
The fishing license allows you to fish:
-1 Public waters
-2 Federal private waters
-3 The waters of the AAPPMAs: always check the local fishing regulation.
Second category waters:
First category waters: fishing only allowed on the right bank:
INFORMATION: with the interfederal license you can fish in every reciprocal section in 91 French departements. That includes the CHI, EHGO and URNE reciprocal agreements.
Every fisherman has to be member of an AAPPMA (fishing association), has to pay a fishing fee (CPMA) and has to have the permission from the owner of the fishing right by being the owner of an actual fishing license:
2020 Prizes
Yearly Interfederal License |
For people elder than 18 / Allows fishing in every URNE, EGO or CHI reciprocal AAPPMA in France. |
100.00€ |
Yearly adult license |
For people elder than 18 / Allows fishing in every AAPPMA included in the Haut Rhin reciprocal agreement. |
80.00€ |
Discovery license for women |
Women elder than 18 / Allows fishing with one rod |
35.00€ |
Teenager licence |
For people between 12 and 18 at the first January of the concerned year. / Allows fishing with one rod |
21.00€ |
Discovery licence for children |
For people younger than 12 at the first January of the concerned year. / Allows fishing with one rod |
6.00€ |
Dayticket |
Allows fishing during one chosen day |
18.00€ |
Weekly license |
Allows fishing seven days in a row, during the same year |
33.00€ |
Where to buy a license?
You have 2 possibilities to buy a fishing license:
The different retailers are mapped on the interactive Web Map: Click here to visit our License retailer Map.
Fishing is allowed the whole year, from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset, in the Upper Rhine.
Fishing open season:
The Upper Rhine rivers have got an ecological richness, the following rules are made to maintain this richness and to preserve and develop this natural patrimony.
Minimum fish length:
The length of a fish is measured from head to tail. Every fish below the legal size has to be immediately released, dead or alive. Non endemic, harmful species can neither be released, nor being transported alive.
Daily limit bags:
Please be aware that… This fishing regulation is a simple version containing the mean information. You will always have to refer to the Arrêté Préfectoral (Check our website www.peche68.fr).