Can you keep a blue catfish in Kansas?

No minimum size, five a day statewide — well below the 10-a-day channel catfish limit.

KDWP source page

Same 5-fish bag as statewide, but with a 35-inch minimum added — Cheney is managed for trophy blue catfish.

KDWP source page

A slot means the fish must fall between those two numbers. Shorter than 28 inches goes back, and so does longer than 40.

A 28-to-40-inch slot with double the statewide bag (10 instead of 5), but only one fish over 40 inches may be kept — Kansas's largest reservoir, managed to protect its biggest blue catfish.

KDWP source page

What we left out on purpose

• Kansas's blanket rule — possession is three times the daily creel limit unless a water lists its own possession number — was applied to every statewide and named-water entry above. No individual water in this table stated a possession number that broke from the 3x rule.
• Milford and Cheney both carry dozens of further named-water rules across Kansas that are not modelled here — only the two reservoirs this site actually reports on (Milford Reservoir, Cheney Reservoir) got individual regions, the same restraint used for Colorado's Gold Medal waters and Louisiana's and Mississippi's named-water exceptions.
• Bullfrogs (8 per day, 24 in possession after day three of the season) are not a finfish and are not modelled here, consistent with every other state in this silo.