License and Permit needed:

• Annual Hunting License (Hunting/Sportsman's/Disability/Senior)
• Bear Chase Permit

BEAR ZONES

Zone 1: McCreary, Bell, Harlan and Letcher County

Zone 2: Clinton, Jackson, Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Russell, Whitley, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Knox, Lawrence, Leslie, Magoffin, Martin, Owsley, Perry, Pike, Adair, Bath, Boyd, Carter, Casey, Clark, Cumberland, Elliot, Estill, Fleming, Garrard, Greenup, Lee, Lewis, Lincoln, Madison, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell, Rowan, Wolfe and Wayne County

LICENSE NEEDED:

• Day (1 or 7 day) hunting license or annual* hunting license (If taken by gun or bow/arrow)
• Day (1 or 7 day) fishing license or annual* fishing license (If taken by pole and line)
• Fishing or Hunting license (If taken by gig or hand)

*Included in Sportsman's and Disability/SeniorLicense

A person may take a coyote after daylight hours, except that:

1. It shall not be allowed in a county or area where a deer or elk firearm season is open;
2. A person shall not use artificial light or other means designed to make wildlife visible at night from April 1st through May 15th and July 1st through November 30;
3. Any artificial light or other means designed to make wildlife visible at night shall not be connected to or cast from a mechanized vehicle;
4. On public lands (if open to nighttime coyote hunting) a person shall not use any equipment other than a bow, crossbow, or shotgun loaded with a multiple projectile shell.
5. On private lands, coyote hunters may only use a bow, crossbow or shotgun loaded with pelleted shells. However, from Dec. 1 - March 31, and May 16 - June 30, hunters on private land at night may also use any breech-loading rifle or pistol of any caliber, a shotgun firing a single projectile or a muzzleloader of .54-caliber or less.

HUNTING

Ages 16 and Older:

• Day Hunting License (1 or 7 Day)
  - OR -
• Annual Hunting License
  - OR -
• Sportsman's License
  - OR -
• Disability/Senior License

Youth (12-15):

• Annual Youth Hunting License
  - OR -
• Youth Sportsman's License

Younger than 12:

• License Exempt

TRAPPING

Ages 16 and Older:

• Trapping License

Youth (12-15):

• Youth Trapping License

Younger than 12:

• License Exempt

License needed:

RESTRICTIONS BY ZONE:

Zone 1

• Unlimited antlerless deer may be taken with the proper permits.

Zone 2

• A hunter may take no more than four (4) deer.
• All four (4) deer may be taken with any weapon.

Zone 3

• A hunter may take no more than four (4) deer.
• A hunter may take no more than one (1) antlerless deer with a firearm. Firearm means a breech or muzzle-loading rifle, shotgun or handgun.
• All four (4) deer may be taken with archery or crossbow equipment.

Zone 4

• A hunter may take no more than two (2) deer.
• A hunter may take no more than one (1) antlerless deer.
• Antlerless deer may be taken during the archery season, crossbow season, both youth seasons or the last three days of the December muzzleloader season.

License and permit needed:

Younger than 12

• License and permit exempt

Youth 12-15

• Annual youth hunting license*

*Included in Youth Sportsman's License

Ages 16 and older

• Day (1 or 7 day) hunting license or annual* hunting license
• Kentucky Migratory Bird/Waterfowl Permit**

*Included in the Youth Sportsman License / **Included in Resident Sportsman's License

Ages 65 and older OR Disabled

• Senior/Disabled License

License and permit needed:

Younger than 12

• License and permit exempt

Youth 12-15

• Annual youth hunting license*

*Included in Youth Sportsman's License

Ages 16 and older

• Day (1 or 7 day) hunting license or annual* hunting license
• Kentucky Migratory Bird/Waterfowl Permit**

*Included in the Youth Sportsman License / **Included in Resident Sportsman's License

Ages 65 and older OR Disabled

• Senior/Disabled License

License needed:

Younger than 12:

• License exempt

Hunting License needed:

Younger than 12:

• License exempt

Youth 12-15:

• Annual youth hunting license*

*Included in Youth Sportsman's License

Ages 16 and older:

• Day (1 or 7 day) hunting license or annual hunting license**

**Included in Sportsman's and Disability/Senior License

Trapping License needed:

Younger than 12:

• License exempt

Youth 12-15:

• Youth trapping license

Ages 16 and older:

• Trapping license

Hunting License needed:

Younger than 12:

• License exempt

Youth 12-15:

• Annual youth hunting license*

*Included in Youth Sportsman's License

Ages 16 and older:

• Day (1 or 7 day) hunting license or annual hunting license**

**Included in Sportsman's and Disability/Senior License

Trapping License needed:

Younger than 12:

• License exempt

Youth 12-15:

• Youth trapping license

Ages 16 and older:

• Trapping license

License and permit needed:

Younger than 12

• License and permit exempt

Youth 12-15

• Annual youth hunting license*

*Included in Youth Sportsman's License

Ages 16 and older

• Day (1 or 7 day) hunting license or annual** hunting license
• Kentucky Migratory Bird/Waterfowl Permit**

**Included in Sportsman's and Disability/Senior License

License and permit needed:

Younger than 12

• License and permit exempt

Youth 12-15

• Annual youth hunting license*

*Included in Youth Sportsman's License

Ages 16 and older

• Day (1 or 7 day) hunting license or annual** hunting license
• Kentucky Migratory Bird/Waterfowl Permit**

**Included in Sportsman's and Disability/Senior License

License and Permit needed:

• Day (1 or 7 day) hunting license or annual* hunting license

*Included in Sportsman's and Disability/Senior License

License and permit needed:

Younger than 12:

• License and permit exempt

Youth 12-15:

• Annual youth hunting license*
• Youth turkey permit*

*Included in Youth Sportsman's License

Ages 16 and older:

• Annual hunting license**
• Fall Turkey Permit**

**Included in Sportsman's and Disability/Senior License