Fishing Report For Jenny Lake, WY

By Rick Seaman

March 6, 2025

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Fishing Report Jenny Lake, WY

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Cutthroat Trout

Current Report: Good To Very Good
Outlook: Very Good

As soon as the ice melts, the cutthroat trout get active at Jenny Lake. The diet of these cutthroat trout consists of insects, small fishes and crustaceans. Locals report the need to match the hatch when fly fishing. Good catches are also reported using small spinners imitating minnows. Year round, including while ice fishing, small jigging spoons, salmon eggs and prepared baits are also delivering.

Lake Trout

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good

The Wyoming Game and Fish Dept is attempting to remove lake trout from Jenny Lake. There are still plenty here to catch, but there is a "catch and kill" restriction in place. Keep what you catch and enjoy some delicious fish dinners. Lake trout feed on small fish, so lures imitating baitfish, sunfish or small trout are good choices. Other choices include nightcrawlers or Berkeley Power Crawlers, fished on drop-shot rigs. Flashy spoons can be fished at any depth, either jigging, trolling or cast and retrieve. Lakers are also being caught while ice fishing.

Fish species to fish for...

Guide to fishing for cutthroat trout and lake trout at Jenny Lake in Wyoming.

Jenny Lake is a 1,200-acre gem in the Grand Teton National Park, north of Beaver Creek, WY. The lake has about 6 miles of shoreline. Follow the 7-mile Jenny Lake Trail around the of lake for fishing from the bank. Fishing is good for cutthroat and lake trout. This is one of the most popular ice fishing lakes in the area.

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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".