{"id":73959,"date":"2019-08-14T13:27:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T19:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/haviland-lake-to-be-drained-fish-limits-lifted\/"},"modified":"2019-08-14T19:27:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T19:27:58","slug":"haviland-lake-to-be-drained-fish-limits-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/haviland-lake-to-be-drained-fish-limits-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Haviland Lake to be drained; fish limits lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5bead38f-ff5a-45ca-9e17-d6abad2dcf58&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1928\" height=\"1086\" alt=\"Haviland Lake will be drained after Labor Day for repairs to the dam\u2019s outlet structure.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Haviland Lake will be drained after Labor Day for repairs to the dam\u2019s outlet structure.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Starting Thursday, it\u2019s a free-for-all for fish on Haviland Lake as wildlife officials prepare to drain the reservoir north of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced all bag and possession limits for fishing at Haviland Lake have been lifted \u2013 which means anglers can keep as much fish as they want \u2013 until Sept. 30. CPW said that earlier this summer, a total of 13,500 fish were stocked in the reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>The reservoir, about 18 miles north of Durango off U.S. Highway 550, will be drained after Labor Day, Sept. 2, so repairs can be made to the dam\u2019s outlet structure, CPW said. The work should be completed in about two months. After the repairs, the lake will begin to fill naturally.<\/p>\n<p>Anglers must still have a valid Colorado fishing license, and fish may be taken only by lawful angling methods \u2013 nets and seines are not permitted, and commercial fishing is not allowed.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Forest Service manages the campground at Haviland Lake, but CPW owns the dam, and the 80-acre reservoir is part of Haviland Lake State Wildlife Area. Campground facilities will close Sept. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>repairs necessary on dam\u2019s outlet structure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1030,885,603],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-environment","tag-fishing","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73959"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}