FISHING REGULATIONS AND FISH SPECIES FAQ COLORADO PARKS & WILDLIFE Poudre River Trap Lake (9,950 ft) Who needs a license? From Rocky Mountain National Park • Cutbow/Rainbow Trout Anyone 16 or older is required to buy and carry a fishing boundary downstream to the confluence • Non-motorized boating license to fish or take fish. Fishing the with Joe Wright Creek: Peterson Lake (9,500 ft) 1. Artificial flies and lures only. • Cutbow/Rainbow Trout How many rods can I fish with? 2. Bag and possession limit for trout is 2. • Non-motorized boating One. Anglers can use a second rod, hand line or tip-up Poudre Canyon Long Draw Reservoir (10,100 ft) by purchasing a second-rod stamp. Youths under 16 From upper boundary of Big Bend camp - • Cutthroat Trout must have and carry with them a second-rod stamp if ground downstream to confluence • Artificial flies and lures only fishing with a second line. with Black Hollow Creek: • Bag and posession limit for trout is 2 1. Artificial flies and lures only. • Non-motorized boating Can I use live minnows for bait? Joe Wright Creek 2. Trout must be returned to water immediately. Yes, but only in waters below 7,000 feet that are East of the • Cutthroat Trout, Arctic Grayling Continental Divide. Live fish collected for bait may only From west boundary of the Hombre Ranch (below Rus- • From the confluence with Joe Wright Reservoir be used in the same water from which they were collected, tic) downstream to the Pingree Park Road/bridge: upstream to Colo. Hwy 14 they may not be transported to other lakes or rivers. See 1. Artificial flies and lures only. • Artificial flies and lures only. the Colorado Fishing regulation brochure for details. 2. Trout must be returned to water immediately. • Fishing prohibited Jan. 1-July 31 Joe Wright Reservoir (9,920 ft) From upper boundary of Gateway Park (water diversion • Cutthroat Trout, Arctic Grayling GLOSSARY OF FISHING TERMS for Fort Collins) downstream to the confluence with the • Artificial flies and lures only ARTIFICIAL FLIES AND LURES means devices made North Fork of the Poudre River: • Non-motorized boating entirely of, or a combination of, natural or synthetic Zimmerman Lake (10,490 ft) 1. Artificial flies and lures only. nonedible, nonscented (regardless if the scent is added 2. Trout must be returned to water immediately. • Native Cutthroat Trout in the manufacturing process or applied afterward), or • Artificial flies and lures only materials such as wood, plastic, silicone, rubber, epoxy, Poudre River, North Fork • Trout must be returned to water immediately. glass, hair, metal, feathers or fiber, designed to attract From Milton Seaman Reservoir downstream to the • Fishing prohibited in inlet area as posted Jan.1- fish. This does not include anything defined as bait confluence with the Poudre River: July 31 below. 1. Artificial flies and lures only. • Non-motorized boating 2. Trout must be returned to water immediately. • Hike to lake 1 mile from parking lot BAIT means any hand-moldable material designed to attract fish by the sense of taste or smell; those devices Lakes listed in order from bottom of canyon to top. STATEWIDE LIMITS to which scents or smell attractants have been added or Statewide regulations apply to all waters except as noted. externally applied (regardless if the scent is added in the Seaman Reservoir (5,480 ft) (SELECTED SPECIES) manufacturing process or applied afterward); scented • Rainbow Trout, Black Bullhead, Green Sunfish,

Type of fish bag Daily limit Possession limit manufactured fish eggs and traditional organic baits, Yellow Perch including but not limited to worms, grubs, crickets, • Hike to lake 1 mile from parking lot TROUT, ARCTIC CHAR, 4 8 leeches, dough baits or stink baits, insects, crayfish, hu- • No gas powered boating GRAYLING, SALMON(except man food, fish, fish parts or fish eggs. • Day use fees March 1 - Nov. 30 kokanee) in aggregate* Barnes Meadow Reservoir (9,080 ft) BROOK TROUT FISHING is defined as efforts to take fish, amphibians • Brown/Cutbow/Cutthroat/Rainbow Trout 10 10 or crustaceans, including by hook and line, handline, 8 inches long or less • Non-motorized boating trotline, jug, seine, net, underwater spearfishing, archery, • Respect private property (in addition to trout limit above) snagging or gigging. Chambers Reservoir (9,150 ft) KOKANEE SALMON 10 10

• Cutthroat/Lake/Rainbow Trout, Kokanee Salmon CPW MORGAN CHAD © PHOTOS angling, snagging or archery • Boating allowed, boat ramp available MORE QUESTIONS? YELLOW PERCH Local CPW Office • Camping available 20 20 317 W. Prospect Road, Fort Collins, CO 80526 Lost Lake (9,290 ft) East of Continental Divide (970) 472-4300 • Rainbow Trout *For statewide limits see CPW fishing brochure CPW Fishing Atlas • Non-motorized boating * in aggregate means the limit may consist of one species or a mixed http://ndismaps.nrel.colostate.edu/fishingatlas/ bag of more than one species. Publish Date: 6/2014 R o To a r A in Red Feather Lakes g Cr To Laramie ee W k Roaring Creek i l See Inset li a Big Bend CR 69 Map Below m s Dutch Scan to download D G Greyrock ul George Narrows Milton ch Poudre River Hatchery Rustic a GeoPDF version B Indian Meadows Steven's Seaman 287 Poudre Reservoir of this map r 14 Gulch Sleeping Elephant e Mishawaka v Park i k R e e r S B Dadd Tunnel e C r h Eggers d e w Gulch u e o Stove Prairie Rd Young Gulch o p l P C l e la r o C Ted's Place h e H a c e CR 27 ch 14 k e a k l c a P C a A o Big South Bl udre Mountain Riv A er PingreeCR Park 63E Rd Park To Fort Collins South Fork Lost Laramie River Rd RiverLaramie Rd 103 CR 14 C Lake Cache la Poudre River M a To Chambers Lake y Cr eek Masonville Barnes Blue Lake Meadow Reservoir D Long D C a ch raw R e Joe Wright d la River Regulations P Reservoir o Trap Peterson u dr Statewide regulations apply to all waters except: Lake Lake e C Zimmerman R i E Lake v e r A - Fly/lure only; All cutthroat must be released Zimmerman Lake 14 B - Fly/lure only; All trout must be released Long Draw N. Fk. Reservoir C - Fly/lure only; 2 trout limit To Walden D - Fishing prohibited Milton Seaman E - Fly/lure only; Fishing prohibited from Jan. 1 - July 31 Reservoir

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