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Ordway Reservoir is a public lake in Crowley County, Colorado, managed by Colorado Parks & Wildlife. It is listed in the CPW Fishing Atlas as legally accessible public water. Public access confirmed via CPW.
An eastern-plains Colorado reservoir — walleye and saugeye the target, with wiper, largemouth and smallmouth bass, big channel and blue catfish, and slab crappie.
Ordway Reservoir covers about 26 acres in the Southeast Plains region. Anglers here mostly fish for walleye, saugeye, wiper, largemouth bass; smallmouth bass, channel catfish, blue catfish, black crappie are also on record. The nearest other mapped waters on PiscaMaps are Ordway Town Reservoir and Lake Henry Reservoir.
Species from the Colorado Parks & Wildlife Fishing Atlas and fishery survey data.
Night fishing: No statewide night-fishing closure in Colorado. Some State Wildlife Areas, state parks and reservoirs have posted hours or seasonal closures — check the CPW property page and the fishing brochure for this water.
Boats: Boating rules are set per water — many high lakes are hand-launch or electric-motor only, and Front Range reservoirs run mandatory aquatic-nuisance-species (ANS) inspections before launch. Check the CPW listing for this water.
Bank & bivvy camping: Camp at Colorado state parks (reserve ahead), national forest and BLM campgrounds, and where allowed on State Wildlife Areas. Many SWAs are day-use only and now require a hunting or fishing licence just to enter. Dispersed camping on national forest / BLM land is widely allowed away from developed areas.
Tackle: Statewide trout bag is 4 (2 on many high-country and cutthroat waters); bass, walleye, pike and panfish have their own limits. Gold Medal and special-regulation reaches are often flies-and-lures, catch-and-release — check the CPW fishing brochure for this water before you keep a fish.
Everyone 16 or older needs a Colorado fishing licence — resident annual is about $41 (plus the ~$12 Wildlife Habitat Stamp), non-resident annual about $103, and 1-day licences about $17. No separate trout stamp. Buy from Colorado Parks & Wildlife. Colorado has no public-trust right to float or wade through private land — you may only fish where CPW, a State Wildlife Area lease, a state park or another public agency provides legal access, which every water in this atlas does. Most licences also require the ~$12 Colorado Wildlife Habitat Stamp; there is no separate trout stamp.
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