Carbon, Emery, Grand and San Juan counties. Seasons, limits and water rules only as the 2026 Utah DWR guidebooks print them, with the page number and the time we checked.
CheckedDWR Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
NWS Flood Watches cover Castle Country, the San Rafael Swell, Southeast Utah and the La Sal and Abajo Mountains starting late Saturday night. NWS lists dry washes, slot canyons and low-water crossings among flood-prone spots.
Checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT · Full alert wording and sources
Oct 28–Nov 5, 2026 on any-bull and spike units. Late-season limited-entry muzzleloader deer hunts run the same dates for permit holders.
Source: 2026 Utah Big Game Field Regulations (DWR), pp.8 and 46 · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
Limited-entry permit holders only. Our units: Book Cliffs, Floy Canyon and San Juan, Mancos Mesa. HAMSS permits aren’t valid on extended archery hunts.
Source: 2026 Utah Big Game Field Regulations (DWR), p.46 · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
Archery hunters may not kill a cow elk on the Book Cliffs unit (p.34).
A general-season archery elk permit allows only a spike bull on Book Cliffs (p.50).
Book Cliffs and Manti are CWD surveillance units (p.22).
Source: 2026 Utah Big Game Field Regulations (DWR), pp.22, 34, 50 · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
Extended archery deer ran Sept 12–Oct 15, 2026. That season is over.
Source: 2026 Utah Big Game Field Regulations (DWR), p.9 · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
319 N Carbonville Road, Ste A, Price, UT 84501
435-613-3700
Source: 2026 Utah Big Game Field Regulations (DWR), p.2 · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
Limit 4 trout combined. No more than 2 cutthroat or tiger trout under 15 in. and no more than 1 over 22 in.
All cutthroat and tiger trout 15–22 in. must be released at once. No filleting or removing heads or tails in the field or in transit.
Source: 2026 Utah Fishing Guidebook (DWR), p.40 · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
Only 1 trout over 18 in. It counts toward the trout limit.
Source: 2026 Utah Fishing Guidebook (DWR), p.35 · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
Limit 6 bass, only 1 over 12 in.
Source: 2026 Utah Fishing Guidebook (DWR), p.35 · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
Closed to possession of cutthroat trout or trout with cutthroat markings.
Tributaries are closed Jan 1 until 6 a.m. on the second Saturday of July. Artificial flies and lures only.
Source: 2026 Utah Fishing Guidebook (DWR), p.35 · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
Closed to fishing.
Source: 2026 Utah Fishing Guidebook (DWR), p.33 · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
Flaming Gorge Dam to the Colorado confluence: no limit on channel catfish. No limit on burbot, northern pike, smallmouth bass or walleye, and these must be killed, not released.
Endangered fish must be released at once (list on p.16).
Source: 2026 Utah Fishing Guidebook (DWR), p.33 · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
HAMSS buck deer runs Nov 7–30, 2026, for limited-entry permit holders.
Source: 2026 Utah Big Game Field Regulations (DWR), p.46 · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
If you take a buck on the Castle Valley or Moab Valley limited-entry any-legal-weapon hunts, you must submit a CWD sample.
San Juan, Abajo Mtns and San Juan, Elk Ridge are CWD surveillance units.
Source: 2026 Utah Big Game Field Regulations (DWR), p.22 · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
Colorado state line to the Hite bridge on SR-95: no limit on channel catfish. No limit on burbot, northern pike, smallmouth bass or walleye, and these must be killed.
Dolores River and Mill Creek (Grand County) follow the same rules. Release endangered fish at once.
Source: 2026 Utah Fishing Guidebook (DWR), p.30 · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
See DWR fish stocking reports · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
DWR waterfowl page · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
The 2026 fishing license year runs Jan 1–Dec 31 (Fishing Guidebook).
Buy or check a license at DWR · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT
Every page above loaded · checked Fri Oct 30, 2026, 5:59 PM MDT. Only DWR, utah.gov, BLM and Forest Service sources. See trail closures · Golf lane