Fishing Report For Fontenelle Reservoir, WY

By Rick Seaman

June 5, 2025

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Fishing Report Fontenelle Reservoir, WY

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Rainbow Trout

Current Report: Good To Very Good
Outlook: Good To Excellent

Ice fishing for rainbows was decent this Winter, and the fishing has really picked up since ice-out. The Wyoming Game & Fish Department maintains a nice rainbow fishery here, along with browns, cutthroat and kokanee salmon. Trolling is the preferred method here and some nice bows in the 15" to 19" range are showing up with regularity. Anglers fishing from the bank are also catching some nice fish. The diet of a rainbow trout consists of insects, small fishes and crustaceans. Use flies or small lures, imitating their natural food, to tempt them into biting. Small spinners, miniature crankbaits and swimbaits are catching rainbows, as are nightcrawlers, salmon eggs and prepared baits.

Brown Trout

Current Report: Fair To Good
Outlook: Fair To Good

Weekend anglers are catching brown trout on spinners, small jerkbaits, nightcrawlers and a variety of other small offerings. They are also being caught when trolling for rainbows and kokanee. Brown trout can be very aggressive, so bigger baits like a jerkbait can often entice viscous strikes and catch some of the bigger browns. These brown trout often put up quite a battle.

Kokanee Salmon

Current Report: Fair To Good
Outlook: Fair To Good

Kokanee take back seat to trout here, but are a nice bonus. Trolling, using Downriggers or leaded line, are the two primary methods for catching kokanee here. Kokanee tend to school up and hang out over deep water, usually above some type of structure. The ideal water temperature is mid to low 50's, and the current temperatures are still in the low to mid 40's, so fishing should get better over the next month or so. Worm harnesses and wedding ring spinner setups are popular when trolled behind a 4" dodger. Locals are tipping these baits with shoepeg white corn, PowerBait, Z-Man Scented ShrimpZ, or live nightcrawlers to helps attract bites. Experiment with depth, starting around 20'. Trolling these baits between 1.2 mph and 1.8 mph is a good speed for these kokes. These kokanee are being caught up shallow early in Spring, then move out deeper once Summer starts warming the shallows.

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Guide to fishing for rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, brown trout and kokanee salmon at Fontenelle Reservoir in Wyoming.

Fontenelle Reservoir is an 8,000-acre lake with over 50 miles of shoreline. The lake is teeming with rainbow, brown, and cutthroat trout. Additionally, this is home to kokanee salmon. Access for bank fishing is easiest along the west side of the lake. In the winter, ice fishing is popular.

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Rick Seaman is a fishing enthusiast with over five decades of fishing experience, a retired tournament fisherman, author of numerous published articles on fishing, and co-author of the book "Bass Fishing - It's not WHAT you throw, It's WHERE you throw it".