Fishing at Lost Twin Lakes, Big Horn County, Wyoming

• Overview

  Within Big Horn County, Wyoming, you have Lost Twin Lakes. The water sits 10,407 feet up. Roughly 42 acres: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. Shoreline comes to about 1.0 miles, small enough to learn in a day. Compared with other Wyoming water on our list, it sits high. For a base, Buffalo sits 22 miles out. The nearest city of size is Billings, 124 miles away. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lost Twin Lakes

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Records held for Big Horn County cover brook trout, rainbow trout, brown trout, white sucker and common carp. Read it as a county summary, not a water-by-water list. On Lost Twin Lakes that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July to average close to 48°F, with January the cold end at about 13°F. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. Winter locks it down, and mid June brings it back. The water is typically free of ice between mid June and late October. The first weeks of open water and the last are the ones to plan for. Lost Twin Lakes fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. No made access is recorded, so a short walk in is the likely arrangement. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Lake Angeline, 2.6 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Ask locally about Lost Twin Lakes if anything is unclear.