Featured Fishing Posts
Fly Fishing Basics – Part I: Picking the right gear
Join us as we talk fly-fishing basics, and learn exactly what equipment you’ll need for your next Colorado fly fishing adventure.
Fall pond fishing challenge
To kick off the challenge, I asked my wife what she thought about heading to a neighborhood pond and doing a little fishing.
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A Guide to Successful Ice Fishing
Here are a few tips and tactics that you can use to make your day out on the ice epic!
Colorado’s Whirling Disease Resistant Rainbows
After more than 20 years of study, frustration, experimentation and dogged persistence by CPW’s aquatic researchers, the tide has turned in the fight against Whirling-disease.
A Six-Month-Long Fishing Tournament
A Lake Trout tournament at Blue Mesa Reservoir with $10,000 in cash prizes starts Feb. 1, 2020. The tournament continues through July 31, 2020.
2019 Colorado Outdoors Photo Issue Video
The annual Photography Issue is a chance to celebrate our fantastic fauna, amazing landscapes, and for the sportspeople and park visitors who get outside to experience and support the abundance of Colorado.
Assessing Colorado’s Walleye
Colorado Parks and Wildlife launches walleye study to assess population dynamics at Lake Pueblo, Chatfield reservoir and Cherry Creek Colorado reservoir.
Trophy Trout of Cheesman Canyon
Each year, CPW conducts fishery surveys of our rivers and reservoirs. The periodic monitoring collects and records the biological data needed to guide fishery management in Colorado. (Video)
Raising Colorado’s Brown Trout – North Delaney Butte Lake
Despite Colorado’s abundant fish populations, most fish cannot successfully reproduce in the wild. And, of those species that are able to reproduce naturally, recruitment (the number of juvenile fish that actually survive to be added to a population) is often too low to support a fishable population. To ensure that there are enough fish to stock every year, CPW sets up spawn-collection sites at lakes and reservoirs across the state.
Tiger Muskie; the role of this silent predator in Colorado’s waters
A non-native fish, and one that is a hybrid, the Tiger Muskie plays a small, albeit, important role in the management of fisheries across Colorado.
Uncovering Staunton State Park’s Impactful Track-Chair Program
CPW’s Track-Chair Program provides opportunities for people with disabilities to live life outside and to share outdoor experiences with friends and family.
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