Fishing Report For Keyhole Reservoir, WY

By Rick Seaman

February 21, 2025

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Fishing Report Keyhole Reservoir, WY

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Popular Fish Species Keyhole Reservoir, WY

Walleye

Current Report: Fair To Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Around dawn, and again from dusk to about midnight, are the best feeding times for walleye. They like to slow cruise around flats and structure close to deep water, especially around in-flowing water. They primarily feed close to the bottom. Locals report using worm-spinner harnesses, blade baits or a swimbaits, with good success for walleye. Troll, or fan cast, and cover lots of water. Once you locate a school, a drop-shot rig with minnow-shaped plastics or worms is a good way to work the school. Spoons, deep-diving crankbaits, and worm harness spinners are also catching walleye while trolling.

White Crappie

Fair To Good
Outlook: Good

Current Report: Fair
Outlook: Good

Crappie fishing reports have been decent lately at Keyhole Reservoir. Spring is the premiere time to be on the water as crappie move into shallow coves to spawn. Any type of cover crappie can find, is a good place to cast small crappie jigs or live minnows. Light tackle with 4 lb to 8 lb line is ideal. Locals report good success using fish finders to locate schools of crappie, then working the school slowly. Slow trolling or drifting works here too, if you don't have electronics.

Smallmouth Bass

Uncle Buck's Panfish Creatures Curly Tail Minnow Rigged

Current Report: Fair To Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Keyhole Reservoir has some quality smallmouth bass fishing. Rocks or gravel shorelines are their favorite hangouts. Once the water warms in Spring, and all through Summer, nice smallies are being caught on topwater baits. Once the sun gets on the water, swimbaits and curly-tail jigs are working well. When the sun is high, tube baits are catching them in deeper water. In Winter, the fishing is often good on cold, windy, cloudy and rainy days.

Fish species to fish for...

Guide to fishing for smallmouth bass, channel catfish, black crappie, white crappie, walleye, bluegill, green sunfish, yellow perch and northern pike at Keyhole Reservoir in Wyoming.

Keyhole Reservoir, aka Keyhole Lake, is a 9,300-acre lake with over 50 miles of shoreline,some with access for fishing from the bank. In winter, this is a great place for ice fishing. A marina, boat ramps, stores, campgrounds and restaurants are all handy at the lake.

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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".