Cherokee Trail Reservoir Fishing near Saratoga, Wyoming

• Overview

  Cherokee Trail Reservoir sits in Carbon County, out in Wyoming. The setting is mixed forest. Small at around 11 acres: two anglers spread out cover most of it. The town to know is Saratoga, 20 miles out. The nearest city of size is Fort Collins, 94 miles away. The nearest boundary is a fair way off. Access points are few, so the middle stretches see little traffic.

• Where to Fish on Cherokee Trail Reservoir

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. Draw-down through summer strips the margins, so follow the water out. Built water gives depth close in, which suits a bank angler. Survey and observation records for Carbon County include brown trout, brook trout and rainbow trout. Read it as a county summary, not a water-by-water list. Read Cherokee Trail Reservoir for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, July reads 63°F and January reads 22°F. Winter shuts things down for a spell, then spring reopens them fast. Ice-out usually falls in mid April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Going by climate averages, expect open water from about mid April until roughly late November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. The season on Cherokee Trail Reservoir rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  No access rule appears in what we hold. It is recorded as intermittent, which means the basin empties in dry spells. We find no slipway, car park or made path within a short radius, so treat access as rough. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Reversed K Seven Reservoir at 0.7 miles is the sensible second choice. Nothing on Cherokee Trail Reservoir should be assumed from this page alone.