2016 Colorado Fishing SEASON: APRIL 1, 2016 - MARCH 31, 2017
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C OLORADO PARKS & WILDLIFE 2016 Colorado Fishing SEASON: APRIL 1, 2016 - MARCH 31, 2017 online brochure cpw.state.co.us 2016 Colorado Fishing REFERENCE TABLE OF CONTENTS CPW OFFICE LOCATIONS cpw.state.co.us Licenses and Information ............................. 1 • What’s New, license fees, season dates, Habitat Stamp ADMINISTRATION 1313 Sherman St., #618 Denver, 80203 Reference ................................................... 2-9 (303) 297-1192 • Gear: What you need to start fishing ............................2 ONLY the offices below can assist hunters with animal checks and taking samples that are related • Bag and possession limits ................................................3 to hunting activities. See the CPW website for a complete list of our 42 parks locations that can • State records ........................................................................4 also sell licenses, issue duplicate licenses and accept licenses for refunds. • How to measure your catch .............................................4 BRUSH GRAND JUNCTION MONTROSE • Illegal stocking ....................................................................5 122 E. Edison 711 Independent Ave. 2300 S. Townsend Ave. • License, residency and disability requirements...........5 Brush, 80723 Grand Junction, 81505 Montrose, 81401 • Special conditions and restrictions ................................6 (970) 842-6300 (970) 255-6100 (970) 252-6000 • Legal fishing methods, glossary of fishing terms .......7 COLORADO SPRINGS GUNNISON PUEBLO • Fishery programs ...............................................................8 4255 Sinton Road 300 W. New York Ave. 600 Reservoir Road • Aquatic nuisance species, information Colorado Springs, 80907 Gunnison, 81230 Pueblo, 81005 for boaters, how to clean waders and gear ................9 (719) 227-5200 (970) 641-7060 (719) 561-5300 SALIDA Regulations ............................................ 10-35 DENVER HOT SULPHUR SPRINGS 6060 Broadway 346 Grand County Rd. 362 7405 Hwy. 50 Denver, 80216 Hot Sulphur Springs, 80451 Salida, 81201 Good Places To... (303) 291-7227 (970) 725-6200 (719) 530-5520 • Take kids fishing ................................................................13 LAMAR • Fish for kokanee ................................................................21 DURANGO STEAMBOAT SPRINGS 2500 S. Main St. 925 Weiss Dr. • Ice fish in January .............................................................23 151 E. 16th St. Durango, 81301 Lamar, 81052 Steamboat Springs, 80487 (970) 247-0855 (719) 336-6600 (970) 870-2197 Maps • Wiper/white bass & walleye/saugeye limits ................3 FORT COLLINS MEEKER • Upper Arkansas River ......................................................11 317 W. Prospect Road 73485 Hwy. 64 • Blue River Basin ................................................................12 Fort Collins, 80526 Meeker, 81641 • Middle Colorado and Eagle rivers................................14 (970) 472-4300 (970) 878-6090 • Upper Colorado River: Headwaters to Radium ........15 GLENWOOD SPRINGS MONTE VISTA • Conejos and Alamosa rivers .........................................17 0088 Wildlife Way 0722 S. Road 1 E. • Lower Colorado River and Grand Mesa .....................19 Glenwood Springs, 81601 Monte Vista, 81144 (719) 587-6900 • Upper Poudre River Drainage .......................................24 (970) 947-2920 • Upper Rio Grande Basin .................................................26 • Middle Colorado and Roaring Fork rivers ..................27 GET THE BROCHURE ONLINE • South Platte River: Cheesman to Chatfield ...............28 cpw.state.co.us/Fishing/Brochure • South Platte River: South Park ......................................29 • White River: Headwaters to Meeker ............................32 • White River: Meeker to Utah state line ........................33 • Yampa River: Headwaters to Craig..............................35 Printed for free distribution by Fish Identification ..................................36-37 COLORADO PARKS AND WILDLIFE (CPW) 6060 Broadway, Denver, CO 80216 (303) 297-1192 cpw.state.co.us FISHING INFORMATION & CONDITIONS ARE © AVAILABLE AT: Editor: John Marín | Cover photo by Mike DelliVeneri, CPW. Printed March 2016 by Publication Printers, Denver. 320,000 copies. cpw.state.co.us/FishingConditions Printing paid for with hunting and fishing license fees. Colorado Parks and Wildlife Director: Bob D. Broscheid Fishing and stocking reports are generated weekly April 1 to Oct. 31, and twice a month Nov. 1 to March 31. Sign up to receive the The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission sets big-game regulations in January. Commission reports at: members are (as of Jan. 2016): Robert W. Bray • Chris Castilian, Chair • Jeanne Horne, Vice- Chair • John Howard • Bill Kane • Dale Pizel • James Pribyl, Secretary • James Vigil • Dean cpw.state.co.us/SignUp/FishingReport Wingfield • Michelle Zimmerman • Alex Zipp cpw.state.co.us/FishStocking CPW receives federal financial assistance from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title BOAT REGISTRATION: II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 and Title Information can be found online at: IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the U.S. Department of the Interior and its bureaus prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability or sex. cpw.state.co.us/BoatingRegistration NOTE: Laws and regulations in this brochure are paraphrased for easier understanding and are REPORT OIL SPILLS: intended only as a guide. Complete Colorado wildlife statutes and regulations are available at To report an oil or chemical spill in the water, call the CPW offices listed above and online at cpw.state.co.us/Regulations 24-hour hotline at Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, 1-877-518-5608. REFERENCE 2016 Colorado Fishing LICENSE FEES ANNUAL LICENSES ARE VALID ADMINISTRATION APRIL 1, 2016-MARCH 31, 2017 WHAT’S NEW2016 1313 Sherman St., #618 Denver, 80203 (303) 297-1192 GET YOUR LICENSE » CHANGES TO LABELING REQUIRE- Dillon Reservoir, Rio Blanco River, Saint » Online: cpw.state.co.us/fish/buyapply MENTS FOR LIVETRAPS, TROTLINES Vrain Creek (North and South), Spring » By phone: 1-800-244-5613 AND JUGS... All livetraps, trotlines and Gulch Pond and Thomas Reservoir. See » In person: CPW offices, state parks jugs must now be labeled with the user’s pages 10-35. or license agents customer identification number or with FEE the user’s name if a CID is unavailable. » LARGEMOUTH AND SMALLMOUTH » Habitat Stamp ............................................$10 Additionally, trotlines must also be BASS CATCH AND RELEASE ONLY... All Required for residents and nonresidents, labeled with the date they were set. largemouth and smallmouth bass must ages 18-64. Add this to license fees below if be returned to water immediately at Erie you have not yet purchased a 2016 Habitat Stamp. » WEST SLOPE BAG AND POSSESSION Lake, KOA Lake, Lon Hagler Reservoir, LIMITS FOR SMALLMOUTH BASS HAVE Mead Ponds and Blue Heron Lake at Saint Vrain State Park. RESIDENTS CHANGED... Bag and possession limits » Adult annual (ages 16-63) .....................................$26 for smallmouth bass on the West Slope » WATER SPECIFIC SPECIAL REGULA- are now unlimited unless otherwise » Senior annual (64 and older) .................................. $1 TIONS FOR WALLEYE AND SAUGEYE For senior lifetime low-income licenses, see page 5 specified by water-specific regulations. REMOVED... Special regulations for » Small Game & Fishing combo ............................$41 walleye and saugeye have been removed » CHANGES TO KOKANEE SALMON at Adobe Creek Reservoir, Nee Gronda NONRESIDENTS SNAGGING... Snagging of kokanee Reservoir, Nee Noshe Reservoir and John » Annual ........................................................................$56 salmon is now allowed at Barker Reser- Martin Reservoir. » Five-day ......................................................................$21 voir from Oct.1 -Dec. 1. Snagging is no longer permitted at Carter Lake, Eleven » BACA COUNTY ADDED TO LIST OF YOUTH Mile Reservoir and Navajo Reservoir. EXEMPTED BAITFISH COLLECTION » Resident and nonresident younger COUNTIES... Baitfish collection and than age 16 (second-rod charge still applies) ........FREE » WATER SPECIFIC REGULATIONS transportation is now allowed in all ADDED... New special regulations have waters of Baca County. RESIDENTS & NONRESIDENTS been added for Erie Lake, Fall Creek, » Second-rod stamp .................................................... $5 Hudson Town Pond, Mead Ponds, Old One second-rod stamp per year is available to anyone who has purchased a fishing license and any youth under 16. (See page 5) » HABITAT STAMP INFORMATION » One-day fishing ......................................................... $9 » Additional-day fishing ............................................. $5 1. Anyone 18-64 MUST purchase a stamp 3. EXEMPTIONS: Anyone Customers buying a one-day or additional-day in order to buy or apply for a hunting or with a free lifetime fishing license are exempt from the Habitat Stamp fee fishing license (including preference points). license, a veteran’s lifetime with the first two of these licenses. The habitat combination small-game fee will be assessed when a third license of this 2. Stamps are $10 and are nonrefundable. hunting and fishing license, type is purchased. Only one is required