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Just paged through the new regs and found a few interesting notes. Co has 11 gold medal rivers (over 160 miles) and just 3 gold medal lakes. Most of the pages, 26 out of 36 total are detailing the many Special regulation waters. Out of those 26 pages I found 5 lakes with special regs on Lake Trout (I may have missed some)
The Winners
Grand Lake; They got rid of the seasonal opening of the slot and the slot stays on Grand lake year round, I know Jon Ewert wanted to get rid of the slot completely but they listened to us at the meetings.
Twin Lakes; Slot and 1 fish limit. Thank you Greg Poliski.
Turquoise; 2 fish limit, Thanks again Greg Poliski.
Williams Fork; 1 lake trout over 30" (8 under) and we still have a slot on Pike thanks to Jon Ewert.
Taylor Park; 3 Lake Trout, only 1 over 26". Thanks to Dan Brauch.
The Losers
Granby; With a long history of a trophy Lake Trout fishery with the highest population and pressure of LT Anglers statewide, along with many years of LT anglers asking for a limit or protection on large fish we get No Special Regs. Even after it was mutually decided at the last meeting that we would get a 1 over 22" added, Granby is 4 open year round. To put icing on the cake we were purposely shorted 3 years in a row on stocker Rainbows while every other lake in the area got increases.
Green mtn; Ignored again. No special regs for the very small population of large Lake Trout there. 8 open limit.
Blue Mesa; Continued net killing program. Unlimited under 38".
On another note; Front page news, at Dillon. You can no longer keep Arctic Char under 20" and only 1 over which will be hard to find. The state record was a brooder (raised to that size in a hatchery), it was 20.5" and 3lbs-12oz.
The Winners
Grand Lake; They got rid of the seasonal opening of the slot and the slot stays on Grand lake year round, I know Jon Ewert wanted to get rid of the slot completely but they listened to us at the meetings.
Twin Lakes; Slot and 1 fish limit. Thank you Greg Poliski.
Turquoise; 2 fish limit, Thanks again Greg Poliski.
Williams Fork; 1 lake trout over 30" (8 under) and we still have a slot on Pike thanks to Jon Ewert.
Taylor Park; 3 Lake Trout, only 1 over 26". Thanks to Dan Brauch.
The Losers
Granby; With a long history of a trophy Lake Trout fishery with the highest population and pressure of LT Anglers statewide, along with many years of LT anglers asking for a limit or protection on large fish we get No Special Regs. Even after it was mutually decided at the last meeting that we would get a 1 over 22" added, Granby is 4 open year round. To put icing on the cake we were purposely shorted 3 years in a row on stocker Rainbows while every other lake in the area got increases.
Green mtn; Ignored again. No special regs for the very small population of large Lake Trout there. 8 open limit.
Blue Mesa; Continued net killing program. Unlimited under 38".
On another note; Front page news, at Dillon. You can no longer keep Arctic Char under 20" and only 1 over which will be hard to find. The state record was a brooder (raised to that size in a hatchery), it was 20.5" and 3lbs-12oz.