Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 46 - FISHING REGULATIONS › Section 46-5 - Creel limits

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Except as
				otherwise provided, no person shall harvest and keep during any one (1) day, or
				have in possession
,
more than the number and length of game fish
				specified in the creel limits listed below. Please refer to subsection (c) of
				this Section. Exceptions are listed with the regulations for each drainage area
				in Sections 17, 22, 25, 28 and 32 of this chapter.
Category
Creel and Possession
							 Limits
(i) Trout (in combination includes brown, cutthroat,
						  grayling, golden, rainbow, salmon, tiger trout, and other trout hybrids).
						  Excludes brook trout, lake trout and splake.
Lakes: six (6) Streams: three (3). No more than one (1)
						  trout shall exceed sixteen (16) inches.
Streams and lakes combined: six (6)
(ii) Brook trout
sixteen (16)
(iii) Lake trout and splake in combination
six (6). No more than one (1) lake trout or splake shall
						  exceed twenty-four (24) inches.
(iv) Whitefish
six (6)
(v) Largemouth and smallmouth bass in combination
six (6)
(vi) Walleye
six (6)
(vii) Channel catfish
six (6)
(viii) Northern pike
See drainage area exceptions.
(ix) Tiger muskie (sterile northern pike muskellunge
						  hybrid)
one (1). All tiger muskie less than thirty-six (36)
						  inches in length shall be released to the water immediately.
(x) Yellow perch, black bullhead, stonecat, crappie,
						  rock bass, bluegill, pumpkinseed, green sunfish, green sunfish-bluegill hybrid,
						  freshwater drum in combination
fifty (50)
(xi) Burbot (ling)
three (3)
(xii) Sauger
two (2)
(xiii) Shovelnose sturgeon
two (2)
(b)
				Except as otherwise provided in the exception for an individual water, the
				total combined creel and possession limit for the trout category, regardless of
				the waters (streams, lakes, or a combination of both) a person is fishing,
				shall not exceed six (6) trout per day or in possession.
(c) Any fish caught that is not to be counted
				in the creel limit shall be immediately released to the water with as little
				injury to the fish as possible. Any fish placed on a stringer, in a container,
				in a live well, or not released immediately to the water, shall be considered
				to be reduced to possession of the angler and shall be killed prior to being
				transported from the water of origin. No fish that has been reduced to
				possession of the angler shall be released alive without prior written approval
				from the Department.
(d) All fish
				possessed or transported shall be kept in a manner that species and numbers can
				be determined. When length limits apply, the whole body shall remain intact
				(gills and entrails can be removed) while in transit or in the field. Where
				length limits do not apply, a piece of skin large enough to allow species
				identification (at least one (1) inch square) shall remain on all fish fillets
				while in transit or in the field, except as otherwise provided in Sections 22,
				25 and 32 of this chapter for walleye and sauger harvested in the Wind River,
				Bighorn River and Tongue River drainages and Glendo Reservoir and in Section 28
				of this chapter for lake trout harvested in Flaming Gorge Reservoir.
(e) There are no creel or possession limits
				on nongame fish. Nongame fish may be taken by the use of legal fishing methods
				during any season open for the taking of game fish.