Best Fishing Spots in Wyoming

Wyoming has no low country. The lowest mapped water in the state sits at 978 metres and the median at 2,733 metres, with the highest reaching 3,708 metres, so every water here is mountain or high plains water and the season is short everywhere. Access is the real constraint: high lakes stay snowbound on the approach well after ice has gone, and many open only from late June into September. Natural lakes outnumber reservoirs roughly two to one, unusual for a dry western state, though the reservoirs on the plains carry much of the warm-water fishing. Only 23 counties cover the state, each large, so the practical unit for planning is the mountain range or drainage rather than the county line. Winters are long and the ice season is genuine. Wyoming accounts for 1,190 waters here, across 23 counties. Natural and held water both feature, with natural lakes in front and reservoirs behind. The largest on the list is Yellowstone Lake, at roughly 132 sq miles. Of the surveyed waters, Yellowstone Lake runs to about 394 feet. Across the listed waters the coldest month averages 16°F and the warmest 53°F. The thaw typically arrives about early June, earlier in the south. Records return rainbow trout, brown trout, brook trout and white sucker more often than anything else....