tailwater · catfish · walleye · trout
Bighorn River (Kane)
Live conditions for Bighorn River (Kane): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
693cfs→ lowcaution
Low and skinny at 693 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water · +1.3% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage1.74 ft
Engine callOFF 684 cfs outside wade band 800–1070
The water
Bighorn River (Kane) is a tailwater in Wyoming, fished for catfish, walleye, trout — brown, rainbow, cutthroat. On free-flowing water the trajectory is the story: falling and clearing after a bump is the window, rising water pushes fish to the banks and brings colour.
catfishwalleyetroutbrown troutrainbow troutcutthroat trout
Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.
Access
- Yellowtail WHMA – Shoshone/Bighorn River Confluence Accesswalk in
- Yellowtail WHMA – Bighorn River at Kane (USGS gauge) Accesswalk in
- Yellowtail WHMA – Lower River Bottom Access (above Bighorn Canyon NRA boundary)walk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.