BIGHORN RIVER AT KANE, WY
BIGHORN RIVER WY USGS
BIGHORN RIVER AT KANE, WY (06279500) is a real-time river monitoring station on the BIGHORN RIVER in WY, operated by the U.S. Geological Survey. Riverbot tracks its river conditions, including water level, and streamflow and publishes a 7-day flow forecast when flow data is available. 20 fish species are associated with this station in public fish records.
- USGS site number
- 06279500
- Operated by
- U.S. Geological Survey
- State
- WY
- Coordinates
- 44.7585, -108.1816
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Fishing regulations
Area 2 zone defaultDefault area rules for fish in the public records above. A grey row means the release has no canonical regulation match for that species.
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Northern pike Open · Harvest allowed within limits Jan 1 – Dec 31 Details
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Jan 1 – Dec 31
- Daily limit
- unlimited
- Notes
- Wind River, Bighorn River, Shoshone River, Clarks Fork, Yellowstone River drainages
Official rule · retrieved Aug 2, 2026
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Trout (in combination includes brown, cutthroat, grayling, golden, rainbow, salmon, tiger trout, and other trout hybrids). Excludes brook trout, lake trout and splake. Open · Harvest allowed within limits Jan 1 – Dec 31 Details
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Jan 1 – Dec 31
- Daily limit
- 6
- Size rule
- 1 trout over 16"; cutthroat over 12"
- Notes
- Wind River, Bighorn River, Shoshone River, Clarks Fork, Yellowstone River drainages
Official rule · retrieved Aug 2, 2026
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Effective Jan 1, 2026 – Sep 14, 2027 · evaluated for 2026-09-10 in America/Denver
Regulations shown are for reference only and may not reflect in-season changes. Always verify current regulations with the Wyoming Fishing Regulations before fishing.
Fish recorded near this station
Sampled in this watershedBighorn River At Kane, WY has documented fish occurrence data from USGS Presence/Absence sampling in the HUC8 watershed 10080010 containing this station. The dataset includes 20 species with recorded observations.
Species include: river carpsucker (Carpiodes carpio), longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus), white sucker (Catostomus commersonii), mountain sucker (Catostomus platyrhynchus), channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), and 15 others.
- River Carpsucker Carpiodes carpio
- Longnose Sucker Catostomus catostomus
- White Sucker Catostomus commersonii
- Mountain Sucker Catostomus platyrhynchus
- Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus
- Shorthead Redhorse Moxostoma macrolepidotum
- Emerald Shiner Notropis atherinoides
- Cutthroat Trout Oncorhynchus clarkii
- Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss
- Yellow Perch Perca flavescens
- Fathead Minnow Pimephales promelas
- Flathead Chub Platygobio gracilis
- Black Crappie Pomoxis nigromaculatus
- Mountain Whitefish Prosopium williamsoni
- Longnose Dace Rhinichthys cataractae
- Brown Trout Salmo trutta
- Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis
- Sauger Sander canadensis
- Walleye Sander vitreus
- Shovelnose Sturgeon Scaphirhynchus platorynchus
Where these records come from
- Evidence
- Sampled in this watershed
- Fish were sampled elsewhere in the same watershed — a provincial or federal survey nearby, not at the gauge itself.
- Records
- 20 species
- from 20 individual records
- Observed
- Sep 1, 1998 – Sep 23, 2010
- 11 dated records
Sources
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