Colorado · White and black crappie

White and black crappie size limit in Colorado

You can keep one today — within these limits

Statewide

Open year-round

Size limit	No size limit stated	total length
Daily bag	20	per person per day, both species combined
Possession	20	total you may hold

No minimum size, twenty a day combined.

Walleye/saugeye/sauger and white bass/striped bass/wiper both carry a higher combined limit (10 and 20 respectively) specifically on the Arkansas River and the South Fork Republican River. Neither water is covered by this site, so the higher regional numbers are not modelled — the statewide figures apply everywhere this site actually reports on.
Clear Creek carries a flies-and-lures-only, catch-and-release special regulation from its headwaters near Loveland Pass downstream to Duck Lake — a short alpine stretch far above Golden, where this site's Clear Creek report is anchored. The statewide trout rule is used here because the site's location sits well below that special-regulation stretch.
This silo covers finfish only. Colorado's crayfish and bullfrog rules (both unlimited statewide) are not modelled, consistent with every other state in this silo.
Aquatic tiger salamander larvae (a legal live-bait/food species in Colorado under 5 inches, gilled) is not a finfish and is not modelled here.
Colorado's countless named Gold Medal and special-regulation stretches beyond the four waters this site actually reports on (Deckers, Dream Stream, Eagle River, Clear Creek) are not modelled — the same restraint applied to Louisiana's and Mississippi's dozens of named-water exceptions.

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Checked at the agency on August 9, 2026 · next check due March 1, 2027