Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 46 - FISHING REGULATIONS › Section 46-4 - Methods

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) It is legal to use hand lines, set lines,
				poles, or tip ups when fishing through the ice and the angler is in
				attendance.
(b) Internal organs,
				eggs, eyes, fins, and skin of game fish are the only portions that may be used
				legally as bait. Any part of nongame fish may be used as bait. The use of bait
				may be restricted on specific waters as described in Sections 17, 22, 25, 28
				and 32 of this chapter.
(c)
				Amphibians and reptiles shall not be used as fishing bait. The possession of
				live or dead amphibians and reptiles while fishing is prohibited.
(d) Crayfish shall only be used as live
				fishing bait in the water body from which they were captured. Once transported
				away from the water of capture, crayfish shall not be used as live fishing
				bait.
(e) Artificial light may be
				used while fishing with legal fishing methods except as prohibited in Section
				10 of this chapter.
(f) Corn may be
				possessed and used as bait in all waters where fishing with bait is
				permitted.
(g) Use or possession of
				bait is prohibited in areas or on waters where fishing is permitted by the use
				of artificial flies and lures only.
(h) A trout bead fixed on a line or leader
				two (2) inches or less from the eye of a bare hook is considered an artificial
				lure. Fishing with a trout bead more than two (2) inches from the eye of a bare
				hook or artificial fly is considered snagging and is prohibited.
(i) The following method restrictions apply
				for waters listed in subsection (iv) of this Section.
(i) The use of more than two (2) lines is
				permitted only during the ice covered period, and only when the angler is
				fishing through the ice, on waters listed below as being included under the
				Special Winter Ice Fishing Provision.
(ii) No person shall use more than six (6)
				lines at any time to fish.
(iii)
				When using more than two (2) lines;
(A) The
				angler's name shall be attached to each line, pole or tip-up;
(B) The angler shall be no more than three
				hundred (300) yards from all lines; and,
(C) Anglers shall check their own
				lines.
(iv) The following
				waters are included under the Special Winter Ice Fishing Provision:
(A) Alcova Reservoir;
(B) Bighorn Lake in Big Horn
				County;
(C) Big Sandy
				Reservoir;
(D) Boulder Lake in
				Sublette County;
(E) Boysen
				Reservoir;
(F) Deaver Reservoir in
				Park County;
(G) Flaming Gorge
				Reservoir;
(H) Fontenelle Reservoir
				in Lincoln County;
(I) Glendo
				Reservoir;
(J) Goldeneye
				Reservoir;
(K) Gray Reef
				Reservoir;
(L) Grayrocks
				Reservoir;
(M) Guernsey
				Reservoir;
(N) Harrington Reservoir
				in Big Horn County;
(O) Hawk
				Springs Reservoir;
(P) Keyhole
				Reservoir;
(Q) Kortes
				Reservoir;
(R) Lake
				DeSmet;
(S) Lake Hattie;
(T) Ocean Lake in Fremont County;
(U) Pathfinder Reservoir;
(V) Pilot Butte Reservoir;
(W) Seminoe Reservoir;
(X) Sulphur Creek Reservoir in Uinta
				County;
(Y) Wardell
				Reservoir;
(Z) Wheatland Reservoir
				#1 in Platte County;
(AA) Wheatland
				Reservoir #3 in Albany County; and,
(BB) Woodruff Reservoir.