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Best brown trout lakes in Wyoming

32 Wyoming waters hold brown trout. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality — open any water to see exactly where to fish it: depth contours, scored spots with plain-English reasons, seasonal windows and bait picks. Wary, nocturnal-leaning predator. Shorelines and inflows in cold months; the thermocline in summer.

1. Flaming Gorge Reservoir — 436 ft max · Smallmouth Bass, Channel Catfish, Rainbow Trout, Common Carp
2. Jackson Lake — 438 ft max · Lake Trout, Brown Trout, Lake Whitefish, Cutthroat Trout
3. Fremont Lake — 608 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Lake Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout
4. Wheatland Reservoir 3 — 50 ft max · Walleye, Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout
5. Desmet Lake — 120 ft max · Walleye, Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch, Lake Trout
6. North Platte River (Grey Reef) — 10 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout
7. Hattie, Lake — 74 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch, Brown Trout, Kokanee
8. Boulder Lake — 249 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Lake Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout
9. Snake River (Jackson) — 10 ft max · Brown Trout, Cutthroat Trout
10. Halfmoon Lake — 282 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Lake Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout
11. Rob Roy Reservoir — 130 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout, Kokanee
12. Eden Valley Reservoir — 13 ft max · Channel Catfish, Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Cutthroat Trout
13. Twin Buttes Res — 30 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch, Brown Trout, Cutthroat Trout
14. Granite Res — 87 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch, Brown Trout, Splake
15. Saratoga Lake — 15 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout
16. Soda Lake — 55 ft max · Brown Trout, Brook Trout
17. Torrey Lake — 58 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Lake Trout, Brown Trout, Burbot
18. West Tensleep Lake — 48 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout
19. Trail Lake — 37 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Lake Trout, Brown Trout, Burbot
20. Ring Lake — 28 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Lake Whitefish, Burbot
21. Owen, Lake — 9 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout, Cutthroat Trout
22. Teton Res — 19 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout
23. Sodergreen Lake — 31 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Cutthroat Trout
24. Lak Reservoir — 41 ft max · Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Crappie, Muskellunge
25. Halfmoon Lake, Little — 60 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Lake Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout

…plus 7 more Wyoming waters holding brown trout.

When to fish brown trout in Wyoming

• Spring 3–25 ft — Cold-water browns hug shorelines, river mouths and mud lines — often in a few feet of water early and late.
• Summer 25–60 ft — Browns sit at the thermocline by day and slide shallow after dark — the night troll takes the giants.
• Fall 5–30 ft — Spawn-run browns stage off tributaries and gravel shorelines, aggressive and territorial.
• Winter 5–35 ft — Browns feed all winter — nearshore when bait is in, deeper breaks otherwise.

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