Saturday, July 6, is a Free Fishing Day for 2019. If you are new to the sport of fishing, and not sure if you will enjoy it, a great opportunity awaits you. CDFW offers two Free Fishing Days each year. On these days, you can fish without a sport fishing license. Free Fishing Days provide a great, low-cost way to give fishing a try. Get out there and try fishing for free, but before you go — Take a listen to Brian "The Rodfather" Conway with the Ledger Dispatch weekly audio fishing report for the Mother Lode area lakes in Northern California.