Ala. Code § 9-11-56.2
An annual "Free Fishing Day" is hereby established and created. Saturday, June 10, 1989, is hereby designated as "Free Fishing Day" for calendar year 1989. For each calendar year thereafter, the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall, not later than February 1 of each year, and without necessity of promulgation of regulation, designate the date of the annual "Free Fishing Day" for that calendar year. During the daylight hours on said day, those persons normally eligible to be and required to be licensed for fishing pursuant to Sections 9-11-53 through 9-11-56, as amended from time to time, shall be permitted to engage in those otherwise lawful fishing activities for which the licenses under Sections 9-11-53 through 9-11-56, would otherwise be required, without said licenses.
Ala. Code § 9-11-56.2 (1975)