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Wyoming => Ice Fishing Wyoming => Topic started by: Djfan on Jan 01, 2023, 03:50 PM
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What are some of the options here?
What is in the lakes here?
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LAK..lots of ponds around the area. GF has a map that will show stocked water and what’s present.
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You have lak by newcastle over run with stunted
perch. It also has eye , brown trout, bass and a rare tiger musky.Osage lake over run with stunted perch and some dinky 10 inch stocked bows. Turner reservoir by Osage has dinky bows .A small pond in town of Newcastle called black elk pond has dinky bows .Ponds by Upton fished out and don't get stocked maybe get a bullhead if your lucky .. East iron Creek has brown poop cistern water and showing no signs of life. Don't go there!!!.Cook lake is chock full of small 6-10 inch undernourished stick like sardine bows with heads bigger than there bodies. Keyhole aka dead sea has some fish if you want some shoulders ..It's got eye,pike,bass,carp,drum,crappie...
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Dayum! Sounds Brutal! ;D
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It is brutal ..The northeast corner up here in wyoming is really lacking for quality ..The lakes are either over stocked with little bows that never seem to grow much or have been taken over by stunted perch .Keyhole is really the only decent option ..The g&f seem to hate northern pike as we only have one lake in the entire state to fish for them but they could help control the perch overwhelming the lakes ..Throwing in some small bows and small tiger muskies every 6 months isnt really managing the fisheries ..
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There are a few fisheries that actually has the quality of fish. Not going to name them, but it took lots of trial by fire and zeros to figuring it out. You will be surprised by some. There are some hidden Gems out there. Heck Call the Game and Fish Biologist and have a chat with them and they will directed you to there access site and stocking reports. Start off by Master Anglers fish. Doing so made me stumble across some ponds that I didn't know existed. Also look closely at the Regs and access points some don't allow ice fishing. Signs that are posted are very old and hard to read and some are not in the Regs. Learn that one the hard way. Happy Hunting.