A Paradise for Anglers
The headwaters of three of the West’s great rivers—the Colorado, the Snake, the Bear—reach into the Wyoming Range, where an abundance of clean streams and lakes have created a safe refuge for our disappearing native cutthroat trout. Because the range divides these drainages, it is where four of the world’s 13 subspecies evolved. Healthy populations of Snake River fine-spotted and Yellowstone cutts share native waters in the Greys watershed, a Snake River tributary that drains the west side of the range. Bonneville cutthroat inhabit the range’s southern reaches in Bear River tributaries.
These mountains are proof that size is not everything when it comes to trout fishing. The trout here might not be the biggest and fiercest fighters in Wyoming, but where else can you enjoy uncrowded, yet accessible streams in a spectacular landscape and catch a variety of native fish. The range harbors all four of the state’s cutthroat subspecies, the native trout with the distinctive red slash mark under the gill. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department celebrates the state’s native trout diversity with the Cutt-Slam Program, which awards a certificate to anglers who catch all four of Wyoming’s native cutthroat subspecies: Snake River fine-spotted, Colorado River, Bonneville and Yellowstone.
The Wyomings are a precious state and national resource that serves our local economy and recreational enthusiasts with wilderness-like opportunities. They are home to wild animals and habitat that depend on the Wyomings as they are. 
—Hoback Ranches resident Peter Doenges
The Wyoming Range’s fishing reputation remains overshadowed by the Snake River’s world-class opportunities, where hordes of well-equipped out-of-town anglers ply the waters in fancy drift boats. But local trout lovers often prefer heading a little farther up the road into the Wyoming Range, where they can still count on creek hopping in solitude and finding a place to camp within earshot of babbling streams.