Pretty close to Cheyenne WY homes, anglers find favorite trout streams, mountain lakes, and excellent reservoirs.  A couple residents of Cheyenne Wyoming homes caught whoppers for the record and another multitude have reeled in a few to fry for a campout.  Whatever the goal, anglers find helpful resources among the shops in Cheyenne where they pick up fly-fishing or spin-casting gear, bait-casting set up, trolling equipment, and maps to guide the way towards Chinook Salmon or Brown Trout.

Several choices for lakes in proximity to Cheyenne real estate include:

• Kiwanis Lake (1.8 miles from Cheyenne homes) for Whitefish, Channel Catfish, and Brook Trout
• Lake Absarraca (1.8 miles from Cheyenne) for Bull Trout, Northern Pike, and Lake Trout
• Lake Minnehaha (1 mile from Cheyenne) for Brook Trout, Sockeye Salmon, and Smelt
• Lake Pearson (2.6 miles from Cheyenne) for Channel Catfish, Bull Trout, and Smelt
• Lake Terry (2.1 miles from Cheyenne) for Sockeye Salmon, Lake Trout, and Channel Catfish
• Sloan Lake (1.2 miles from Cheyenne)
• Twin Mountains Lake (23.8 miles from Cheyenne) for Chinook Salmon, Steelhead Trout, and Northern Pike
  

Among the streams are Bear, Beaver, Brush, Clear, Cottonwood, Diamond, Dry, Geary, Jim, Middle Crow, Mill, Muddy, North Fork Crow, South Crow, South Fork Middle Crow, South Fork South Crow, Spring, and Willow creeks and Spring Branch.  Area reservoirs include Crystal Lake, Equalizing, Fred Hersig, Gilchrist, Granite springs, John W. Griffen, King, North Crow Diversion, Polaris, Renslaer, Schuyler, South Crow Creek, and Willow Creek reservoirs as well as Hutton and Round Top lakes.

Where to go depends on what the fishing enthusiasts are looking for.  The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is fortunately located in Cheyenne.  They are a great resource.  They may point a new fishing family to go west on Happy Jack Road to Curt Gowdy State Park to fish for trout at the Crystal and Granite—or they may suggest rivers around Laramie. 

An hour north of Cheyenne around Wheatland, there are the Greyrocks and Guernsey reservoirs and Rock Lake and Wheatland Reservoir No. 1, and the North Platte and Laramie rivers.  A few hours west of Cheyenne, there are the Seminole, Pathfinder, and Alcova reservoirs and the Miracle Mile of the North Platte River.  Of course, south of the city, the State of Colorado also offers many opportunities for gold-medal fishing excursions.

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