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Encampment River

The rule for this water, with the receipt.

Special regulations for Encampment River, from Wyoming Highway 230 at Riverside downstream to its confluence with the North Platte River, as the state words them

Carbon County · River · WY

Has its own special rules
How to read this page:Official text quoted regulationParsed fields from the ruleDerived calculated from rulesContext conditions, not a ruleAdvice our suggestion

The rules for this water, verbatimOfficial text

Straight from WY's official regulations. Rules in force today lead; out-of-season rows are dimmed. Nothing is paraphrased. Not legal advice: verify the posted rules at the water.

Whole water
  • All fish
    Gear artificial flies and lures only

Statewide base layerParsed

These defaults apply where the rules above do not modify them.

Season
Fishing is permitted year-round twenty-four (24) hours a day in any waters of this stateStatewide
Gear
fish shall only be taken or fished for with a maximum of two (2) rods or poles, with lines and hooks attached and the angler in attendanceStatewide
Bait
Internal organs, eggs, eyes, fins, and skin of game fish are the only portions that may be used legally as bait. Any part of nongame fish may be used as bait.Statewide
Poles
a maximum of two (2) rods or polesStatewide

Where the verbatim rules above name a species, season, or limit, they replace the rows below. Each row is tagged with the layer it comes from.

SpeciesDaily limitSize
Burbot (ling)
unlimited-Statewide
Northern pike
unlimited-Statewide
Whitefish
Twenty-five (25)-Statewide
Trout
Varies by water: No more than one (1) trout shall exceed sixteen (16) inches, limit three (3) (All streams within Area 2, unless indicated otherwise)
six (6)-Statewide
Walleye
Varies by water: limit two (2) per day or in possession (underwater spear gun fishing, except where designated as nongame fish or where otherwise provided for Alcova Reservoir on page 16)
unlimited harvest-Statewide
Yellow perch
unlimited harvest-Statewide

How this answer was assembled

  1. StatewideStatewide river rules are the base layer: default season, gear, bait, and limits.
  2. This waterSpecial rules written for this exact water replace the statewide defaults where they speak.
  3. Emergency orderEmergency orders in effect today override everything else. They sync quietly when the phone has coverage and never lock you out of the app.

Where this stretch begins and ends

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The drawn shape is the named water, matched from the official list against OpenStreetMap and accepted only because the name resolved to a single feature in this water's county.

Different sections of this water can have different rules. The exact section boundaries are not marked on the map yet; each rule above describes in plain words where it starts and ends, and that written description is the authoritative boundary. Map boundaries come water by water, never as a guess.

At the water nowContext

Overnight
53°F
Partly Cloudy
Wind 5 mph · 2% precip
Wednesday
78°F
Isolated Rain Showers then Scattered Showers And Thunderstorms
Wind 5 to 10 mph · 46% precip
Wednesday Night
51°F
Scattered Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy
Wind 5 to 10 mph · 38% precip

Streamflow: 33.6 cfs at encampment river ab hog park cr, nr encampment, wy (2026-07-29 01:15)

Forecast: National Weather Service. Flow: nearest active USGS gauge in this water's area, which may sit on a different reach. Conditions are context, not rules.

What are you fishing for here?Advice

Pick from the species named in Encampment River's rules. Setups are checked against the gear rules in force today, and your picks are remembered on this device only. These are rule-aware suggestions, not a claim about what is biting; advice, not law, and the rules above govern.

Receipts

Statewide rules
Statewide
Checked against this official source on July 12, 2026.
Special rules - Encampment River
This water
Checked against this official source on July 12, 2026.

Local services near Encampment River

Tackle shops, guides, and boat launches that serve this water will appear here - a separate lane below the rules, so a local business can reach you without ever getting between you and the regulation.

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