>>Does it take a hunting license to gig frogs? I honestly don't know. Should be fishing, if anything.

Catch-and-release gigging?

It makes sense for aquatic life to be under a fishing license--I've inadvertently caught sliders, softshells, and stinkpots on hook and line, and purposely caught a couple of bullfrogs the same way. In other words, sometimes the herps are bycatch for an angler, but said angler shouldn't all of a sudden need to produce a hunting license to "cover all the bases."

However, I don't think any state which uses the fishing-license-for-aquatic-life concept considers water snakes as part of that category.
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