Bighorn River Fishing Guide Wyoming Archives

Game On Wyoming Fly Fishing

May 13, 2020 by Jeramie Prine

Game On Wyoming Fly Fishing: Governor, Mark Gordon has lifted the 14-day out-of-state quarantine period, and the Wyoming Game and Fish is again selling one-day, five-day, and annual fishing licenses to non-residents. Our guide service has been patiently waiting to start guiding again until these two items were lifted.

Game On: Bighorn River Fly Fishing Guide Service

We would like to thank Ron and Earland for being our firsts guests back out on the water yesterday. They had a great day on the Bighorn River in Thermopolis, Wyoming. The trout are BIG & HUNGRY! Fishing is on fire right now!

With that said, Dunoir Fishing Adventures is following Covid-19 prevention protocol on all guide trips that include:

Face masks or Buffs required while traveling with guide in vehicle or in close proximity.
Guides will provide hand sanitizer at all times for guests.
Trips will include lunches that are individually packaged for each guest.
Social distancing at boat ramps.

We want to ensure our guests’ and guides’ safety on all trips. We can always reschedule a trip or issue a refund should a guest not be able to make trip due to illness or state restrictions.

To see our Orvis Weekly Fishing Reports click here: Wind River Fishing Report & Bighorn River Fishing Report.

Bighorn River Fishing Report: Thermopolis, Wyoming

March 13, 2018 by Jeramie Prine

Bighorn River Fishing Report: Thermopolis, Wyoming

Bighorn River Fishing Report: Thermopolis, Wyoming: No Spring Flush this year on the Bighorn River according to the Chief of Water Operations. Typically, every March the Bureau of Reclamation will conduct a spring flush to wash out sediment and debris from the river to help with spawning and trout habitat. However, due to the high water we have seen this last year and through the winter there is not a need to have a spring flush. River flows are projected to increase to 2000 CFS in the next few days and will probably reach 3000 CFS by the end of the month. River flows from then on will be highly dependent on what spring will bring with moisture and melt.

Current water flows: Wind River/Bighorn River

Fishing on the Bighorn River has steadily gotten better from the middle of winter. Warmer weather is helping the fishing and bringing quite a few anglers eager to shake the cabin fever to the river. We ask fishermen to avoid fishing to podded up rainbow trout on their redds (spawning beds) in shallow water. Fish the drop offs and deeper runs and you will catch just as many fish. Hot flies right now include: sow bugs, midges, annelids, leeches

Bighorn River Fishing Report: Thermopolis, Wyoming

February 28, 2017 by Jeramie Prine

Bighorn River Fishing Winter Report

Bighorn River Fishing Report Thermopolis, Wyoming: Dunoir Fishing Adventures guides have been busy guiding on the Bighorn River this last week. The fly fishing has been absolutely outstanding and the weather has been wonderful for winter. There have been a few storms that have rolled in lately and that seems to slow the fishing down just a bit, but as soon as the temperatures come up so does the fishing. Guide Jeff Judkins had three great days out with one of our favorite guests, Ed, on the Bighorn River. The fishing was lights out each day. Ed pulled in some nice trout on annelids, midges, sow bugs, and had one great day on streamers. Always fun.

Bighorn River Clean Up

Guide, Todd Helms, helped out with Trout Unlimited Bighorn River Clean Up day and hauled in a boat load of trash. This is the first annual event that brought in several guides from the area and spearheaded out of Cody, Wyoming. We were happy to see this event come into fruition as it has been talked about a lot but never done. We appreciate all those volunteers who came to clean the Bighorn River up just in time for spring fishing. We know all people who will float and fish the Bighorn River this year will be happy to see how clean the river is right now!

On another note, guide Jeramie Prine, snowmobiled into the headwaters of the Bighorn River (Wind and Dunoir Rivers) this weekend and there is a tremendous amount of snow in the high country. Early summer conditions will be very interesting. More on that to come in the next report. Keep posted.