Best burbot lakes in Wyoming
7 Wyoming waters list burbot (official records or labelled estimates), 1 mapped with survey or official-chart depth data. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality, leading with the waters in our reviewed search catalog — open any water to see exactly where to fish it: depth contours, scored spots with plain-English reasons, seasonal windows and bait picks. The freshwater cod that feeds at night under the ice — ugly, delicious and wildly underrated.
- Flaming Gorge Reservoir — 436 ft max · Smallmouth Bass, Channel Catfish, Rainbow Trout, Common CarpWhy #1: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · 5 public access sites
- Pilot Butte Reservoir — 81 ft max · real survey depth contours · Crappie, Rainbow Trout, BurbotWhy #2: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · no verified access record attached
- Trail Lake — 37 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Lake Trout, Brown Trout, BurbotWhy #3: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · 1 public access site
- Ring Lake — 28 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Lake Whitefish, BurbotWhy #4: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · 1 public access site
- Lake Cameahwait — 34 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, Muskellunge, Yellow PerchWhy #5: mapped size signal; contours are approximated · no verified access record attached
…plus 2 more Wyoming waters holding burbot.
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How to use this ranking
The order is a map-planning ranking, not a claim about today's fish population. It favors larger mapped waters and gives survey-backed contours a three-times data-quality boost. Agency population surveys, current regulations, access and recent conditions should make the final decision.
Compare maximum depth across 37,233 lake records · See Wyoming waters with public access data
When to fish burbot in Wyoming
- Spring 25–70 ft — Post-spawn burbot slide back toward deep basins but still run shallow rock after dark.
- Summer 50–120 ft — Deep and sluggish in warm months — mostly a bycatch while jigging deep structure for lake trout.
- Fall 30–80 ft — Feeding picks up hard as the water cools — dead bait or glow spoons on deep rock at night.
- Winter 15–60 ft — Late-winter spawners stack on rock humps and shoals — glow jigs pounded on bottom after dark.
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