Prewitt Reservoir is an irrigation and recreation reservoir in

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and

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counties in northeastern Colorado. When full, the reservoir's surface area is . The reservoir is located about northeast of

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along the

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History

Prewitt Reservoir Colorado September 2018

Prewitt Reservoir was financed and built by the Great Western Sugar Company and began construction in 1910. The reservoir helps supply sufficient water for the irrigation of

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. Construction was completed in 1912.

Fishing

Popular with fishermen, the reservoir is stocked with

walleye The walleye (''Sander vitreus'', Synonym (taxonomy), synonym ''Stizostedion vitreum''), also called the walleyed pike, yellow pike, yellow pikeperch or yellow pickerel, is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern ...

saugeye The saugeye (''Sander canadensis'' × ''vitreus'') is a hybrid freshwater fish between walleye (''Sander viterus'') and sauger (''Sander canadensis'') of the family Percidae. They are commonly stocked in the midwestern United States for recreation ...

channel catfish The channel catfish (''Ictalurus punctatus''), known informally as the "channel cat", is a species of catfish native to North America. They are North America's most abundant catfish species, and the official state fish of Kansas, Missouri, Nebra ...

, wipers and

black crappie The black crappie (''Pomoxis nigromaculatus'') is a freshwater fish in the sunfish family ( Centrarchidae). It is endemic to North America, one of the two types of crappies. It is very similar to the white crappie (''P. annularis'') in size, s ...

.Colorado Division of Wildlife
Prewitt Reservoir: Fish Survey and Management Data.

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