Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff have collected over a million eggs from kokanee salmon spawning operations so far this year ...

To be eligible for the giveaway, a 2025 Colorado fishing license must be presented. Up to four youth may receive kokanee if ...

CPW announces 2025 kokanee salmon giveaway days, advising participants to call ahead and bring own containers.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s annual kokanee salmon giveaways are back on the calendar in late October and November at reservoirs in Durango and Dolores. Anyone with a 2024 Colorado fishing license is ...

A significant early run of kokanee salmon on the Dolores River is prompting Colorado Parks and Wildlife to host an unscheduled giveaway on Thursday. Officials will distribute fish to at 3 p.m. at Joe ...

Colorado Division of Wildlife biologists this year are continuing a project aimed at protecting kokanee salmon by reducing the number of lake trout in Blue Mesa Reservoir. The project includes netting ...

Brad Halleck remembers waking up before sunrise to go fishing at Green Peter Reservoir. “If you didn’t get there by 7 a.m., the parking lots were full,” said Halleck, a longtime angler and board ...

Labor Day found me without a fishing partner due to illness, so I headed to Ririe Reservoir to observe how the fishing was going for both man and birds. Before the sun came up, the sky was busier than ...

Late December finds snow and ice covering most of the Blue Mesa Reservoir basin, but many anglers still carry mental images from the summer of vast expanses of dewatered shore and a Gunnison River ...

Tens of thousands of kokanee salmon have died between Green Peter and Foster reservoirs due to a new extreme water drawdown at the reservoirs intended to help native fish, federal and state officials ...

Many Montanans fume when federal or state agencies make fish and game decisions without what they consider to be adequate public input. And there’s a stir now in some quarters about a change in ...

Hot temperatures around the west have caused some fishing closures or restrictions in Montana. Many rivers have already gone to “hoot owl” restrictions, so reference the Montana Fish and Wildlife ...