Colorado · Fishing license · Cost
How much is a fishing license in Colorado?
$44.87 a year if you live here, $124.01 if you don't. Add the compulsory 12.76 habitat stamp for anyone aged 18 to 64 — the licence price alone is not what you pay.
Just passing through? Each additional day costs $9.13 — the annual pays for itself from about 14 of those.
Every license price
| License | Who | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Annual fishing (18 to 63) | Resident | $44.87 |
| Annual fishing, senior (64+) | Resident | $12.96 |
| Annual fishing, youth (16 and 17) | Resident | $12.96 |
| One day | Resident | $18.07 |
| Each additional day Only on top of a day licence. | Resident | $9.13 |
| Annual habitat stamp Compulsory, not optional: CPW adds it to every licence for anyone aged 18 to 64, once a year. | Resident | $12.76 |
| Second-rod stamp Optional — lets you fish a second rod. | Resident | $14.24 |
| Annual fishing (16+) | Visitor | $124.01 |
| Five days | Visitor | $41.04 |
| One day | Visitor | $21.90 |
| Each additional day Only on top of a day licence. | Visitor | $9.13 |
Fees inside the price
The habitat stamp is compulsory and comes on top of the licence price: 12.76 a year for anyone aged 18 to 64, once per licence year. The second-rod stamp at 14.24 is optional.
How long your money lasts
Colorado's annual licence runs 1 March through 31 March of the following year — thirteen months, not twelve. Day licences are only good for the dates printed on them and are sold at most 60 days ahead.
What we could not pin down
Rather than fill these in from somewhere else, they stay open until CPW states them plainly.
- CPW sells the habitat stamp to residents and visitors alike; it is filed here under resident because the price table read does not split it, and the note says it applies to everyone aged 18 to 64.
- Free fishing days: CPW runs them, but no dated 2026 announcement was read, so the rule stands here without dates.
