Best burbot lakes in Wyoming
7 Wyoming waters hold burbot, 1 mapped with real state-agency depth surveys. 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. 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 Carp
- Pilot Butte Reservoir — 81 ft max · survey depth data · Crappie, Rainbow Trout, Burbot
- Lake Cameahwait — 34 ft max · Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, Muskellunge, Yellow Perch
- Torrey Lake — 58 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Lake Trout, Brown Trout, Burbot
- Trail Lake — 37 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Lake Trout, Brown Trout, Burbot
- Ring Lake — 28 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Lake Whitefish, Burbot
- Jim Bridger Pond — 35 ft max · Rainbow Trout, Burbot, Cutthroat Trout
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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