Fishing Reports

 

2026 Wyoming snowpack & fishing report

We are starting off 2026 with 104-105% of normal snowpack here in the Green River basin. Upper Green River basin appears to be in the best shape across Wyo with a 115% snowpack. Good deal, now we need another storm to arrive, pronto before we dip below 100%. Our snow is currently wet, along with our ground. Last fall was wet and the ground got saturated with rain/snowmelt. So, I do believe in we are in pretty good shape at the moment. Winter is young yet and we have two treacherous wintery months ahead. 10 day forecast for Daniel, Wyoming is dry and cold. We have snow on the upper river and dry conditions down below the dam.

winter fly fishing wy

Fishing remains consistent in our river, moss is minimal after the accidental bump of 3000cfs back in November. So if you notice debris in the trees like a flood just happened, there’s why. We are getting out when the weather is nice… we did a rowing clinic and river float trip lately with more coming. Weather looks good into next week for anyone who needs some river therapy in a WFC guide boat! As usual, we are doing the this counted winter fly fishing special until April 1, $550 for a full day float trip (1-2 anglers), streamers…nymphing  and maybe some dry fly fishing.

Wyoming passed a guide bill in 2025, requiring all fishing guides to register their guide boats. Click here if you need to register your boat. We hope these new regulations will preserve the solitary experience we have here in Wyoming and prevent our water from being further populated by fly by night guide operations.

Late season Wyoming Mallards with a great crew!

The 2025/26 waterfowl season is finally over. What a long grind! We had our ups and downs this year with the unseasonably warm temps, but it ended up great. We finished it off with two outstanding days of shooting mallards and more! Now booking 2026/27 Wyoming and Alaska duck hunting. Call or text for more info!

WFC guide Erik and Rooster with a fine Wyoming Ditch Chicken from 2025 hunting.

We are excited to announce our expansion next year to more private property pheasant and public pheasant and chukar hunting. Our private leases are easy and productive come to find…and the farmers want them shot!

CALL OR TEXT to book : (307) 360-3251

 

 

Fins and Feathers

We hope you all are set for a great Thanksgiving Holiday! An arctic cold front is on its way today, bring more snow and cold temps. Current snowpack in the Green River basin is currently low, but winter is long. They are calling for a proper, snowy winter here this year.. good thing, we need one. The last few weeks have been full of ducks, geese, pheasant and trout here at the Wyo Fish Co and our crew. It’s been a ton of fun. We are offering discounted river float trips for 2 until April 1, 2026 again on the Green River below Fontenelle Dam. $550 for the full day float, guide will have rods/flies if needed, anglers must bring their own lunch.

 

fall fishing in Wy

Nice November brown trout!

Wyoming Lake Trout!

We are still chasing trout in the rivers and lakes, but as winter gets closer…our bird hunts get busier. We have been on the divers, puddle ducks and Canadian geese. We are currently operating in 2 different flyways here in the Cowboy State. The first half of the season has produced some great hunts and phenomenal birds. We even got a Longtail diving duck to work into the rig one morning…who is in his way to the taxidermist! We are excited for the late season hunts in both small water and dry fields for geese and ducks to pickup. We have acquired quite a few private properties that hold waterfowl and pheasant. Both of which we are offering on our guided hunts this year. Below are pictures from some of the recent hunts.

A great diving duck hunt last week!

 

 

Longtail duck

Longtail duck

2025 Wyoming field hunts!!

As bird hunting winds down, we are excited to begin both guided ice fishing trips along with coyote hunting! We love calling in coyotes to closer range on our local, private ranches! They are a ton of fun! Beginners or experts welcome! We provide all tackle and guns needed on these two trips.

Calling Coyotes in Wyoming

2026 fishing and bird hunting trips are booking as well, so let us know if you want to get on the schedule for next year! Prime dates and guides are booking up, call/text us! (307) 360-3251 or (307) 413-7998

Fall Fishing & Wingshooting

Greg’s 27″ fish this week with WFC head guide, Jake Martinez. Longer than his 25″ 10 pounder in 2024. Congrats Greg!

What a busy last few weeks! We are catching our breath and getting ready for the next push of mid fall work, before the winter sets in….

Our guide team has been out doing it all, roping 27″ river fish, chasing double digit lake trout, Geese/Duck hunts, and doing a little elk hunting. Fish are in great shape during this beautiful fall we have.

2025 Wyoming field hunts!!

We have availability in the coming weeks for all trips. Our private field hunts for Geese and ducks have been productive, with limits for all hunters before 10am on our dry field hunts so far. We call these hunts “Little Canada”. Cost for a dry land field hunt is $350 per gun. We have the following dates available: October 20-25, 27-31 & November 1-4, 8-10, 19.

Done by 9 am! 2025 hunt

We will be doing a fair amount of duck hunts over water coming up, out of our 25′ Duckwater Ocean. Diver and puddle duck hunts.

Happy hunters for the 2025 opener. Limited out!

Our waterfowl guides scout before every hunt …we aren’t going to take you to dead water or fields!

Wyoming two hander fish swung up this week…

As winter comes in, it’s time to think about throwing the two handed rod and swinging streamers. We have a few trout spey/switch rod/skagit guide trips coming up as we go into winter locally. Our river is a great place to swing flies. Long beautiful runs, all winter and open water for miles! Winter is a great time to swing flies on a spey rod, can be very productive, and what better activity than getting out of the house on a nice winter day and swinging up some big fish! We provide the spey rods and flies on these trips. Whether you need to button up your D Loop or Snap T, Snake Roll, Single Spey, Perry Poke casts for an upcoming Steelhead trip… OR you just want to learn how to spey cast, we can help with you! WFC guide Ryan Hudson has guided Steelhead and Taimen anglers with spey rods in the last 2 decades, he’d be happy to show you the method, along with some wild stories, Stateside or abroad while chasing fish with a two hander.

2025 AK Chrome

On the Steelhead note, we are doing Ak Steelhead again this April/May, and again in the fall of 2026. Our April/May trips have availability if you want to join in on these trips. Focus is swinging flies, but we’ll nymph em if we have too…. On the May 2025 trip, we swung ALL fish up…none caught under a bobber. It was about as perfect sea run rainbow trip a guy or guide could ask for. After an incredible experience last spring fishing AK steelhead, we have no choice but to return.  Along with steelhead, we will be targeting silvers, halibut, rockfish and SEADUCKS during the fall. Need a Harlequin for the wall? We can help…. Call and ask for Ryan for more info on this next level experience. We will provide the ultimate Cast N Blast one can ask for.

Not a monster, but decent Mack. Nice Chris!

Our lake trips chasing lake trout have been alot of fun lately. Fish are colored up in pre spawn mode. We got a fair amount of Macks over 30″ this weeks. The fishing will heat up in the coming weeks with these fish. Fly fishing or Spin fishing, we are on em and can accommodate up to 4 anglers on these lake trips for Lake trout, trout and night fishing for burbot. Thats right, we guide burbot trips! We even got into some recently. Poor mans lobster, and no limit on them!

Prespawn female, Roped by decade long WFC Patron Greg J. Well done!

Looking into 2026, We are looking forward to Ice Fishing Trips. Won’t be long. Trout, Macks (big and small) and Burbot on the hardware.

2026 summer fishing is booking. Now’s the time to get your dates booked! Call or text (307) 360-3251 to book.

tight, fast loops, no wind knots… and, oh yeah, Hooksets are FREE here at the Wyoming Fishing Company.

 

 

Summer Time!

Summer is here and moving quickly, flows are dropping and fish are doing what they do, eating big dry flies! This week is all hands on deck, we are running 5+ boats a day right now through this week, thanks to all our return patrons! It’s been so great to see all of you again! We have had some 12-18 year return clients who annually fish with us this week. It’s a pleasure and privilege to have you back for over a decade, year after year. So, thanks again.

We got a nice 24″ brown trout yesterday on a dry fly and turned another one a few minutes later that was much larger than 2′. Fish are in good shape thus far.  We are permitted on the Snake River in Jackson Hole, Wy as well. This will fish well into August if our fishing slows down here on the Green. We have a private ramp on a ranch, right under the Tetons we can launch boats from, as well as wade fish the springs creeks and side Channels of the Snake River that flows through this ranch. This will fish good in August, September and into October. September is a great time to float the Snake, especially if you have a private ramp miles downstream of the rest of the boats putting above us, like us! Cutthroat trout on Streamers and dry flies under the Tetons, come on out and let us show you!

Well done Jimmy!

Fontenelle sections of the Green should be fine, however the freestone around Pinedale maybe getting low this year.  We still plan on fishing the lower freestone into the fall. Which should be great!

We are doing more lake trips for trout, Kokanee salmon and lake trout as well this year. These trips are a great additions to a day on the river. We have a comfy, 25′ boat with all the tools and electronics needed to get into them. Fly fishing or spin fishing. We can take up to 6-7 guests at a time and fish up to 6 rods at one time trolling, 7 anglers if we are jigging with the Garmin Livescope we have on board. Call for more details

guided lake trout fishing wyoming

20 lb laker, roped by a guest recently. This was one of 3 fish we got over 16 pounds in 1 afternoon….

Bird season is getting close! We have cast n blast trips starting Sept 1 and we have availability if you’d like to get in on the action! New leases, both ducks and geese in the fields. We are very excited.

AK Chrome 5/25

Lastly, we have expanded to Alaska….steelhead, coho and duck hunting. We did a guide stint back in May and it was by far one of the coolest trips we’ve done.  Wild steelhead, all swung up on light or floating lines, two handed/spey casting. We didn’t catch one fish on a bead….we are setting up May 2026, one week is booked, only 2 left… Call us if you think you have what it takes!

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Spring has sprung!

We’re running with the throttle a bit more open these days. The water is warming and we are seeing a consistent ice-off feeding behavior in the systems. The fortunes have been great on the WFC boats! The boys are all in “get’it” mode as the freshwater bugs are feeding the bellies of our mega-trout, trophy inventory. Now is a great time to book a trip for Spring fishing with Wyoming Fishing Company!

Cold, pre-run-off waters during the season of Spring in Wyoming offer large, vibrantly colored carnivorous trout.

As the season fires off, more and more of our crew is funneling in and staking their claim on the river banks. Trips are booking up rather quickly this year so, be sure to get your days on the water scheduled sooner – rather than later. We have guides available through May! What a time to be on the water. Typically, May is a handbasket full of opportunities to wrestle with brutes. The water is cool and the early stages of the aquatic life cycle are in full-swing.

Spring fishing in Wyoming with Wyoming Fishing Company is a time proven method of meeting truly trophy-grade Bows!

The Whitey Special
Back by popular demand this spring season is everyone’s favorite local table fare hunt, the WFC Whitey Special! This is a targeted hunt to fill the stringer with plenty of flaky white meat baring, pale finned critters. With hefty creel limits and our knowledgeable guides, this 5-6 hour trip is meant to bring home the freshwater bacon. We are selling this trip for $375/boat with all gear provided! We’ll be running this hunt through the spring so, be sure to get a spot while the gettin’ is good.

Supper is on! White fish trips are an adventurous outing with a tasty meal being the objective.

Learn to row
Our rowing clinics have been booking well and we have taken pride in aiding our clients to become more proficient in the middle seat. We maintain that the boat’s success is directly linked to the skill of the oarsman.
Now, you can share in that success by learning our methodology. This is an opportunity to spend a day learning to fish an angler from the middle seat, and learn the tactics we use to systematically catch trophy fish through the utility of our clients. Learn more here.

Our rowing clinic offer one-on-one instruction with some of the best oarsmen in Western Wyoming.

On the swing!
A few of us, here at the WFC, have extensive experience swinging flies on big water throughout the Pacific Northwest. In recent years, we’ve been playing with the idea of integrating our knowledge of Skagit style fishing into our personal brand of an aggressive streamer approach to targeting big meat eaters here in the Mountain West. The result of mating those two disciplines has given birth to our new Trout-Spey program and the results have been incredible! We are now booking for the coming season so, if you would like to try your hand at hunting goliaths west-coast-style, give us a ring at 307-360-3251 or email at info@wyofishco.com

Way to go Hud! Nice trophy Bow swung up on the Spey rod.

Don’t forget the essentials!
As always, to fish in Wyoming waters, a fishing license is required. Please be sure to secure your license prior to meeting with your guide. Licenses can be obtained at any regional WYG&F office, many local retailers or, online by clicking here.
Additionally, take note that we are still experience cooler mornings and the potential for a windy afternoon. Be sure to bring along a good (preferably waterproof) coat and any other cold weather garments you may need to keep comfortable. Also, sunglasses are a must. They serve to protect your eyes from the brutality of our Rocky Mountain sun as well as the occasional rogue casted hook.

What a bruiser Brown!
As always, we appreciate you all and look forward to seeing you in the near future. If you can’t make it out this Spring, be sure to tell your friends and family about Spring fishing with Wyoming Fishing Company. Recommendations are the driving force of our enterprise and we are grateful for every friend-of-a-friend sent our way!

Can you feel it?

Surely you can see it and, this Wyoming Spring-season fishing report is only a supplement to the obvious. The patches of mud and gravel in the driveway where the thick blanket of hard packed snow and ice is swiftly losing its campaign of frozen tyranny against the rebelling Spring season. The days are getting longer, the weather warmer and the equinox is only days away. Soon the triumphant summer sun will arrive to claim its throne in the Western Wyoming sky; however, between now and then, some of the best fishing the Rockies have to offer can be found on the home waters of the WFC. 

If you’ve known our outfit for a while, you can probably imagine what the boys have been up to for the past month. If there’s open water, they’re on it, putting in the oar strokes and soaking up the intel. When you come out for a wild trout hunt, you can do so with peace of mind, knowing that your guide has been putting in the work, and has got the bugs & knowledge to line you out for success.

Speaking of your wild trout hunt, are you on the books yet? Our summer schedule is filling in rapidly but, there’s still a few boats available, sporadically throughout the peak of season. Prior to peak-season however, you might consider coming out for a Spring trip. Our special winter pricing is in effect through the month of March! The boys have been sending it on the early season water and the fishing has been incredible. Ryan, Kurt and Tristan have been running a handful of their regular dudes over the past few weeks and have all reported a steady and consistent eatery. The fish are veracious, hard fighting and very heavy. Call the outfit and get on one of the guy’s boats!

Hardwater

As the lake begins to warm, the fish are beginning to move a bit more and we’re seeing a lot of action under the ice using our LiveScopes and AquaView Cameras. We’re finding the fish to be a bit more selective and a bit of a gap between their feeding windows but, when the bite is on, it’s on chaotically. There’s still a couple weeks of good ice fishing to be had! The boys have been reporting 18”-20” of solid surface on our home lakes and they’ve had a couple productive days as of late. Our local ice guide Erik has been on the hardwater non-stop and he’s getting the late season eat dialed in well. Give Ryan a call and see what he can do to fit you into Erik’s schedule. Additionally, you can get to know Erik and all of our guides on the BIO page. See it here

Open Water – Lake Trips

As we roll into the season, with break-up and turnover in the near future, the boys at WFC are readying their lake boats! This is a new venue offering we’ve been working on and, the coming ice-off is going to be a hot time to be here. Throughout the season, the lakes provide. We’re excited to be able to offer this trip. Hunt for big Macs, trophy Trout and Kokanee from the comfort of our large watercraft. We’re sad to see the hardwater season coming to an end but, we are VERY excited for the coming open water. Call the outfit and book your lake trip today! 

Jackson Hole

We’re headed north! We have secured permitting to guide the Snake River and we are currently booking Spring trips, with many of our regulars already booked through April! This trip is an iconic one, as it winds through some of the most scenic wildland, with the intent of targeting pure fine spotted Cuttys in their native drainage – as they eat big bugs on the surface. This is genuine fly fishing in its most nostalgically poetic form and, it comes with an attribute of utility as well! If your ambitions are to complete the Cutt-Slam this year, a Spring trip on the Snake would be a great start! (And if you need a little help rounding up the hardest of the four species to find, drop us a line. We’ve got the drop on Bonnies). Learn more about the Wyoming Cutt-Slam here. We’ll be running these trips in the Spring, as well as the Fall. Stay tuned for more details, as they develop. 

Finally

Snowpack is over 100% which, considering the few storm fronts we’ve seen this year, is something to be grateful for. See the data here. This should lead to a lasting flow throughout the basin so, thank a water development worker the next time you see them! 

If you’re not a resident of Wyoming here’s a reminder to be sure to grab your fishing license before you head out to meet your guide! There’s very little cellular service in the wild places we fish and, even fewer accommodations. Your best bet is to grab a license on the WG&F’s online portal. Find it here

Lastly, to all our patrons – new and old – thanks so much for your continued support. We LOVE what we do and who we do it for. We’re looking forward to seeing you all in the coming days! 

If you have any questions or want to schedule a day on the water, the number to dial is 307-360-3251

Ice fishing & River Fly Fishing

2025 is off to a great start here at the Wyo Fish Co, starting out 12th year in operation. We keep growing! We are ice fishing, river fishing and daydreaming about Summer fishing. Our snowpack is currently over 100% in the Green River drainage, we certainly could use more snow, but we have good layers up high that should last longer that the previous years’ runoff.

Solid rainbow from the last week in Feb 2025

“Poor man’s lobster” the Burbot.

The ice fishing has been fun, but tricky lately. We have gotten burbot, whitefish and trout through the ice, along with trout and whitefish in the rivers. Fish are in great shape this year and will only get bigger.

We are excited to offer guided fishing trips on the Snake River in Jackson, Wyoming this year. We have acquired the permitting to allow us to legally guide this river in Teton County, Wyoming. We have acquired some incredible private walk wade and river boat launches! Our access gets us in the river miles below everyone else putting in. We begin guiding the Snake River next week, along with our usual program in our home drainage. The Snake River in Jackson fishes great pre-runoff and Late July-September.  This is a Snake River Finespotted Cutthroat trout fishery, in their native habitat under the Teton Mountains in the famous, Jackson Hole.

River trips have been productive so far. Kurt had a good trip over the weekend, I (Ryan) had a good day last week. Seeing more fish hit the next over 20″ than under it seems.

2025 is booking up nicely, we hired more guides to elevate the workload and give us more flexibility. If you haven’t gotten your dates booked, nows the time!

On a separate note, the Wyoming Legislature has moved a guide regulation bill further into the legislative session. We still don’t know what will happen, but we need something to be done. We have testified during this years’ legislative session. Too much gov’t is a bad thing, but not enough makes it chaos. We are at the chaos part.

Guide Tristan with a toad roped and happy angler

This upcoming weekend looks great for fly fishing on the river. We have guides available in both Jackson, Wyoming and the Green River. $500 for the full day float, that’s $200-$300 discount!  Skiing is done, lets go!

Lastly, our Alaska steelhead fishing/seaduck hunting operation has begun and I’ll be headed there in May to guide steelhead. Are you interested in shooting Harlequin, Scoter or other coveted ducks or catching the last, greatest, undisturbed runs of steelhead in North America? Drop us a line!

Ryan

 

101% Snowpack

We go into February with renewed hope that our winter will sustain, after a long and dry January. The recent storm cycle Brought our basin wide snowpack up to 101%. Both upper and lower Green River basins are at 101%. Prior to this storm, our snowpack was at 78%. It’s fascinating what one storm can do.

We got out on the first day of 2025 open water yesterday and boy was it nice! What a sweet taste of river fishing season. It was somewhere in the 40s ( felt like 75F), snow was melting and fish were eating! WFC Guides Jake, Kurt, Erik and myself (Ryan) got out on a dead calm day and had the place to ourselves. Today, the wind howls at 30-40mph, temps are much cooler, blowing snow and another storm cycle coming Friday, and another on radar for next week, aided with the bitter cold of teens and lows to the negatives. This is just what we needed! I feel like we will come out of February with a great snowpack.

WFC Guide Erik & a solid river brown

The ice fishing offered endless opportunities with great ice. We’ve been all over the place. We are  looking forward to our Veterans Fishing Trip on February 22. Thank you to all our sponsors! We have enough veterans on the trip and are full! What an incredible experience to be apart of.

Healthy Fish this year!

2025 summertime fly fishing trips are filling in, if you haven’t gotten your spot, give us a call for availability. (307) 360-3251

Ropin’ Toads

Ice fishing has been good and about to get really good! Give us a call and lets get you on the schedule! The Wyoming ice fishing guide season has been great thus far and alot of fun. We are getting all sorts of trout through the ice and about to get into the larger lake trout. Stay tuned for those guys to show up!

Solid rainbow Jan 2025

Our ever popular, “Winter Special” guided fishing trips will resume this year and are about to begin with the warmer temps. These are a great way to combat cabin fever and spend the day with one of our guides! They’re all ready to show you a good time!

Winter Fly Fishing with the WFC

Fly Fishing in Winter

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2025 Fishing

We hope the Holidays were great to you and your family/friends. Such a busy chaotic time. We are blessed to have loyal patrons joining us on our outdoor adventures, whether it be by foot or by boat, with shotgun or fly rod. 2025 Fishing has started off great for the Wyo Fish Co guide crew and our patrons. River fly fishing or ice fishing local lakes, we are having a great time doing both! Our snowpack in the Green River basin is currently 104.5% of normal, 100% upper and 109% lower. Great news and a wonderful way to ring in the new year. See the Wyoming State Map below, updated Jan 6.

We are offering discounted, 2 day combo trips. One day on the ice, one day on the flowing river in a drift boat! Call for details and dates, all tackle provided on both trips.

First time ice fishing for Lacey! beginners luck!

We have cold weather setting in for the next few weeks, not alot of snow coming, but cold. Great time for ice fishing! Grab a friend or your family, and come on out!

Kurt and WFC guest, with a slab of rainbow on the last trip of 2024. Way to go guys!

WFC guide Kurt got out on the river with Colton and crew last week for our last river trip of the year. They roped some good ones! Who would think river fly fishing would be so fun? Look at them smiles!

Solid 2025 rainbow through the ice!

No big ones through the ice yet, but that’s coming. We offer walleye, salmon, burbot and trout trips through the ice.  Night or day fishing. Lets go! (307) 360-3251