2 Colo. Code Regs. § 406-1-100
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 1, January 10, 2025
Section 2 CCR 406-1-100 - DEFINITIONSSee also 33-1-102, C.R.S and Chapter 0 of these regulations for other applicable definitions.
A."Artificial flies and lures" means devices made entirely of, or a combination of, natural or synthetic non-edible, non-scented (regardless if the scent is added in the manufacturing process or applied afterward), materials such as wood, plastic, silicone, rubber, epoxy, glass, hair, metal, feathers, or fiber, designed to attract fish. This definition does not include anything defined as bait in #100.B below.B."Bait" means any hand-moldable material designed to attract fish by the sense of taste or smell; those devices to which scents or smell attractants have been added or externally applied (regardless if the scent is added in the manufacturing process or applied afterward); scented manufactured fish eggs and traditional organic baits, including but not limited to worms, grubs, crickets, leeches, dough baits or stink baits, insects, crayfish, human food, fish, fish parts or fish eggs.C."Chumming" means placing fish, parts of fish, or other material upon which fish might feed in the waters of this state for the purpose of attracting fish to a particular area in order that they might be taken, but such term shall not include fishing with baited hooks or live traps.D."Game fish" means all species of fish except unregulated species, prohibited nongame, endangered and threatened species, which currently exist or may be introduced into the state and which are classified as game fish by the Commission. This includes, but is not limited to brown, brook, cutthroat, golden, lake (mackinaw), and rainbow trout; cutbow (rainbow trout x cutthroat trout hybrids), splake (lake trout x brook trout hybrids), and tiger trout (brown trout x brook trout hybrids); arctic char; grayling; kokanee salmon; whitefish; sculpin; smallmouth, largemouth, spotted, striped, and white bass; wipers (striped bass x white bass hybrids); carp; bullhead, blue, channel, and flathead catfish; black and white crappie; drum; northern pike; tiger muskie; sacramento and yellow perch; sauger; saugeye (walleye x sauger hybrids); speckled dace; rainbow smelt; tench; walleye; bluegill; bluegill hybrids (bluegill x green sunfish); green, redear and pumpkin-seed sunfish; gizzard shad; longnose and white suckers; and minnows.E."Float tube" means a floating device which suspends a single occupant in the water from the seat down and is not propelled by oars, paddles or motors.F."Gig" means a barbed fork with one or more tines which is attached to a handle.G."Jugs" means floats to which are attached a line and common hook.H."Minnow" means all members of the families of fish classified Cyprinidae (which includes but is not limited to Carp, Chub, Dace, Fathead Minnow, Shiner, Stoneroller, and Tench) Cyprinodontidae (including but not limited to Killifish) and Clupeidae (Gizzard Shad), except those designated as nongame, threatened, or endangered in Chapter 10 of these regulations, or those designated as Unregulated Wildlife in Chapter 11 of these regulations.I."Natural stream" means an existing stream course where water naturally flows regularly or intermittently for at least part of the year. Ditches or other water conveyance channels which are man-made are not considered natural streams.J."Net" means seine, dip net, gill net, cast net, trap net, hoop net or similar devices used to take or as an aid in taking fish, amphibians or crustaceans.K."Personally attended line" means a rod and line, hand line, or tip up that is used for fishing and which is under the personal control of a person who is in proximity to it.L."Common hook" means any hook or multiple hooks having a common shank. All hooks attached to a manufactured artificial lure shall be considered a common hook.M."Size" or "Length" means the total length of a fish with head and tail attached measured from the tip of the snout to the tip of the tail.N."Seining" means the capture of live fish with the use of a net that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose fish when its ends are pulled together, or are drawn ashore.O."Snagging" means the taking of fish by snatching with hooks, gang hooks, artificial flies or lures, or similar devices where the fish is hooked in a part of the body other than the mouth. P."Trotline" means a single, anchored line with a float at each end from which droplines are attached.37 CR 23, December 10, 2014, effective 4/1/201538 CR 23, December 10, 2015, effective 4/1/201639 CR 11, June 10, 2016, effective 7/1/201639 CR 23, December 10, 2016, effective 4/1/201740 CR 05, March 10, 2017, effective 5/1/201740 CR 23, December 10, 2017, effective 1/1/201841 CR 03, February 10, 2018, effective 3/2/201841 CR 19, October 10, 2018, effective 11/1/201841 CR 23, December 10, 2018, effective 1/1/201942 CR 11, June 10, 2019, effective 7/1/201942 CR 23, December 10, 2019, effective 1/1/202044 CR 03, February 10, 2021, effective 4/1/202144 CR 23, December 10, 2021, effective 4/1/202245 CR 23, December 10, 2022, effective 4/1/2023