DENVER (KDVR) — After a two-year hiatus, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Blue Mesa Reservoir lake trout tournament has returned. The tournament was last held in 2021 and returns on Jan. 1, 2024, ...

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 ...

The sun was still rising last Friday morning over western Colorado's Blue Mesa Reservoir when a frantic moment ensued on a small boat. "I can't get him in the net," said Hunter Enloe, a lifelong ...

GUNNISON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) - Anglers have a chance to win up to $10,000 while also reducing the number of predatory lake trout in western Colorado. The second annual Blue Mesa Reservoir Lake Trout ...

GUNNISON, Colo. (KREX) – Harmful algae were discovered in the Blue Mesa Reservoir water, the National Park Service announced Monday. NPS staff’s latest testing showed concentrations of blue-green ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife is calling the 2025 Blue Mesa Lake Trout Tournament a “banner year” and said it was the best tournament since it began in 2020. The four-month tournament ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado anglers could win ...

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 ...

BLUE MESA RESERVOIR — In an effort to prop up water levels at the declining Lake Powell, federal water managers are negatively impacting recreation on Colorado’s biggest man-made lake. That’s the ...

The water level at Colorado‘s largest lake is currently falling faster than it has ever fallen before. It’s not because of evaporation or a lack of conservation here. Instead, the federal government ...