Fishing near Blanca, CO

Blanca sits in Costilla County on the floor of the San Luis Valley, with the Sangre de Cristo Mountains rising sharply to the east. The marquee local fishery is Smith Reservoir, a 14,058-acre-foot impoundment just two miles south of town at 7,716 feet elevation, managed as a State Wildlife Area by Colorado Parks & Wildlife. Anglers in the area also fish Trinchera Creek, the Rio Grande, the Conejos River, and Mountain Home Reservoir, with rainbow trout, northern pike, brown trout, and largemouth bass among the commonly reported catches.

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Alligator Gar

Atractosteus spatula

Black Buffalo

Ictiobus niger

Black Bullhead

Ameiurus melas

Black Crappie

Pomoxis nigromaculatus

Blue Catfish

Ictalurus furcatus

Bluegill

Lepomis macrochirus

Bluegill Sunfish

Lepomis macrochirus

Blue Sucker

Cycleptus elongatus

Brook Trout

Salvelinus fontinalis

Brown Trout

Salmo trutta

Channel Catfish

Common Carp

Cyprinus carpio

Cutthroat Trout

Oncorhynchus clarkii pleuriticus (Colorado River cutthroat trout), Oncorhynchus clarkii virginalis (Rio Grande cutthroat trout)

Flathead Catfish

Pylodictis olivaris

Flathead Chub

Platygobio gracilis

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