Bighorn Lake
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08-Apr-20
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: Bighorn Lake: No Reports Reported by: Sportsmans Warehouse |
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About: -
Bighorn Lake is located on the Wyoming and Montana Border. Yellowtail Dam at a
height of 525 feet impounds the Bighorn
River at Fort Smith, Montana. Its construction created and made
accessible Bighorn Lake which lies in a sand- and limestone-walled defile cut
between the Bighorn and Pryor Mountains by the Bighorn River. Hundreds of feet
down, within the Bighorn Canyon, water is backed up some 41 miles in Montana and
30 miles into Wyoming. In Montana, Bighorn Lake has a surface area of 5574
acres. Bighorn Lake, like the river reach it inundated,
supports a warmwater fishery.
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- Black Crappie
- Brown Trout
- Burbot
- Channel Catfish
- Rainbow Trout
- Sauger
- Smallmouth Bass
- Walleye
- Yellow Perch
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