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San Juan River is a public river in San Juan County, Utah, managed by Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. You can fish it on a Utah fishing licence — there is no separate trout stamp. Under Utah’s 2010 Public Waters Access Act you may float and fish where the river crosses private land, but you may NOT touch the streambed or bank without permission; legal wade access is on public land, at bridges and road crossings, and on the stretches with a public-access easement or Walk-In Access agreement. Blue Ribbon and cutthroat-conservation reaches carry their own tackle and bag rules. Public access confirmed via UDWR stocked water.
A warm desert river of the Colorado River system (the Green through Desolation Canyon, the Colorado, San Juan, San Rafael, Dirty Devil) — smallmouth bass, channel catfish and walleye plus native roundtail chub, flannelmouth and bluehead sucker; the three native 'chub-and-sucker' species and any Colorado pikeminnow or razorback sucker must be released.
It runs roughly 143 miles through the Southeastern Region region. Anglers here mostly fish for smallmouth bass, channel catfish, walleye, roundtail chub; flannelmouth sucker are also on record. Live flow and gauge height come from the San Juan River Near Bluff, Ut USGS station shown below. The nearest other mapped waters on PiscaMaps are Chinle Creek and Lime Creek.
Species from UDWR fish-stocking records (1979–2024, joined by water ID), PiscaMaps water-type profiles and hand research.
Night fishing: No statewide night-fishing closure in Utah; a few waters have seasonal or hourly restrictions (spawning closures, some community ponds and state-park waters) — check the current Utah Fishing Guidebook for the specific water.
Boats: Utah rivers are floated by drift boat or raft (the Green below Flaming Gorge especially) or waded; the big reservoirs take trailered boats via a state-park ramp. Every boat needs an AIS inspection and the mussel-aware course, and any craft off Lake Powell must be decontaminated.
Bank & bivvy camping: Roughly two-thirds of Utah is federal land -- dispersed camping is allowed on most BLM and Forest Service ground along these waters, plus developed state-park and Forest Service campgrounds on nearly every major reservoir. A few Wasatch Front canyon watersheds ban camping entirely.
Tackle: The general Utah trout limit is 4, but many waters carry reduced limits, slot limits, artificial-only or catch-and-release rules -- the Green River, the Provo, Blue Ribbon water and the cutthroat-conservation streams especially -- and native chub, sucker, Colorado pikeminnow, bonytail and June sucker must be released. Check the current Utah Fishing Guidebook.
Boat ramps: 3 mapped — Sand Island Boat Launch, Mexican Hat Access, Clay Hills Crossing Boat Ramp.
Camping: 13 sites mapped nearby — Campsite, Campsite, Campsite, Sand Island Campground, Campsite, Campsite and others.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors.
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Live from USGS gauge 09379500 — San Juan River Near Bluff, Ut. Full gauge data →
Anyone 12 or older needs a Utah fishing licence — the resident annual is about $40, the non-resident annual about $100, with 1-day (~$16 resident / ~$25 non-resident), 3-day and 7-day options. There is no separate trout stamp. Children under 12 fish free (or on a $5 youth licence to keep their own limit). Buy from the Division of Wildlife Resources at wildlife.utah.gov. A Utah fishing licence covers this water — it is on the UDWR stocking programme.
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