Whitewater Creek

The rule for this water, with the receipt.

Special regulations for Whitewater Creek, as the state words them

Catron County · River · NM

Has its own special rules

How to read this page:Official text quoted regulationParsed fields from the ruleDerived calculated from rulesContext conditions, not a ruleAdvice our suggestion

The rules for this water, verbatimOfficial text

Straight from NM's official regulations. Rules in force today lead; out-of-season rows are dimmed. Nothing is paraphrased. Not legal advice: verify the posted rules at the water.

Whole water

Trout
Gear Special Trout Water; Gila Trout Permit (free) required.

Statewide base layerParsed

These defaults apply where the rules above do not modify them.

Season: Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Gear: Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Bait: Possession of and use of any baitfish while fishing is illegal, except as defined below.Statewide
Poles: Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations

Where the verbatim rules above name a species, season, or limit, they replace the rows below. Each row is tagged with the layer it comes from.

Species	Daily limit	Size
Lake trout	2 per day - 4 in possession	-	Statewide
Cutthroat trout	2 per day - 4 in possession	-	Statewide
Kokanee trout	12 per Day - 24 in Posession	-	Statewide
trout	two (2) trout only	-	Statewide
Black Bass (largemouth and spotted)	5 per day	min. 14-inch minimum size limit	Statewide
Crappie	20 per day	-	Statewide
Striped Bass	1 per day	-	Statewide
Northern Pike	10 per day	-	Statewide
Walleye	5 per day	-	Statewide
Yellow Perch	30 per day	-	Statewide

How this answer was assembled

StatewideStatewide river rules are the base layer: default season, gear, bait, and limits.
This waterSpecial rules written for this exact water replace the statewide defaults where they speak.
Emergency orderEmergency orders in effect today override everything else. They sync quietly when the phone has coverage and never lock you out of the app.

Where this stretch begins and ends

This water is not yet drawn on the map. Its rules are captured and receipted; the geometry ledger records exactly why it is not drawn (an ambiguous name match or a gap in the source data), and it will never ship as a guess. Each rule above describes in the state's own words where it applies, and those written descriptions are the authoritative boundaries.

What are you fishing for here?Advice

Pick from the species named in Whitewater Creek's rules. Setups are checked against the gear rules in force today, and your picks are remembered on this device only. These are rule-aware suggestions, not a claim about what is biting; advice, not law, and the rules above govern.

Receipts

Statewide rules

Statewide

NM official fishing regulations

Checked against this official source on July 11, 2026.

Special rules - Whitewater Creek

This water

NM official fishing regulations

Checked against this official source on July 11, 2026.

Local services near Whitewater Creek

Tackle shops, guides, and boat launches that serve this water will appear here - a separate lane below the rules, so a local business can reach you without ever getting between you and the regulation.

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