Viewing The Map

With over 1000 fishing locations all those fish icons can be a bit of challenge to view on Google Maps, but these few tricks will help.

First, please make sure to view the map in full screen mode. That square thing in the upper right. (hit the [ ]). Then zoom in and out.  

Second, there are two types of fish icons, lakes and streams. 

Third, you will notice there are three different colors of fish icons for different size fish found. Black (biggest), red (medium), blue (smallest). 

Since the fish are typically larger in the lakes than the streams I use a little different criteria for fish size. For example, blacks being bigger in lakes than streams. 

Average fish size for each lake and stream comes from net and creel checks done by the Colorado Division of Wildlife. 

 Some of this information is decades old but despite this much of the data is very accurate due to the fact there is low fishing pressure on most high-country lakes and streams. 

Note: If a lake or a stream is not listed then chances are the fish documented there were smaller than 10” in the lakes, and smaller than 8” in the streams. I would say out of the 1400 lakes & 1700 streams I looked at 10% had no data at all. 

Now, this does not mean you cannot catch a nice large trout in a stream not listed or a large fish listed in a lower rated lake or stream as this data is based on average fish size. 

Many of the lakes on the front range are not mentioned as this map focuses on trout fishing. 

The goal of my map is to point you in the right direction with over 1000+ excellent Colorado lakes and streams to trout fish.

Remember, great fishing means great camping, hiking, backpacking, photography, bike riding and more.