Kansas · Blue catfish
Blue catfish size limit in Kansas
You can keep one today — within these limits
Statewide
Open year-round| Size limit | No size limit stated | total length |
|---|---|---|
| Daily bag | 5 | per person per day |
| Possession | 15 | total you may hold |
No minimum size, five a day statewide — well below the 10-a-day channel catfish limit.
Cheney Reservoir
Open year-round| Size limit | 35 inches and up | total length |
|---|---|---|
| Daily bag | 5 | per person per day |
| Possession | 15 | total you may hold |
Same 5-fish bag as statewide, but with a 35-inch minimum added — Cheney is managed for trophy blue catfish.
Milford Reservoir
Open year-round| Slot size | 28–40 inches | total length |
|---|---|---|
| Daily bag | 10 | per person per day, of which only 1 may be 40 inches or longer |
| Possession | 30 | total you may hold |
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.
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.
Other species limits in Kansas
Where to try today
- Cheney Reservoir 6/10 · Biting
- El Dorado Lake 5/10 · Picky
- Milford Lake 6/10 · Biting