Today’s Bighorn Mountain and Buffalo Area Fishing Report

Mountain Streams:
(Including Clear Creek, Crazy Woman Creek, Rock Creek, Piney Creek and Tensleep Creek and their tributaries)

Bighorn mountain streams are frozen over for the winter.

Mountain Lakes:
(Including Tie Hack Reservoir, Meadowlark Lake, and Cloud Peak Wilderness Lakes)

All mountain lakes are frozen. Folks are ice fishing at Tie Hack Reservoir and Meadowlark Lake, Try a small ice fly or Swedish Pimple tipped with a mealworm or waxworm.

Prarie Streams:
(Including Clear Creek, Crazy Woman Creek, Rock Creek and Piney Creek)

Lower elevation streams are frozen over for the season.

Lake Desmet:
Lake DeSmet is partially frozen along the south dam and some select bays. Ice is 4-6" thick, use caution when venturing out or fishing on the ice.

Ice flies, small jigs, or Swedish Pimples tipped with a mealworm or waxworm.

Prairie Lakes and Ponds:
(Including Healy Reservoir, and Muddy Guard Reservoirs)

There is 6-8" of ice on local reservoirs.

At Healy try a crappie rig with crawler chunks, mealworms, or minnows for Perch. Try large jigs or jigging lures for Tiger Muskie and Bass.

Remember no live bait is allowed at Muddy Guard #1.