Fishing near Cooke City, MT

Cooke City sits in Park County at the northeastern corner of Yellowstone National Park, tucked into the Beartooth Mountains near the Montana-Wyoming border. The area is known for blue-ribbon trout fishing on Soda Butte Creek — which runs right through town — and easy access to Yellowstone's Lamar Valley waters, including Slough Creek and the Lamar River. Dozens of alpine lakes in the surrounding Beartooth high country round out the fishery.

Top waters to fish near Cooke City

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Brown Trout

Salmo trutta

Mountain Whitefish

Prosopium williamsoni

Rainbow Trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Arctic Grayling

Thymallus arcticus

Brook Trout

Salvelinus fontinalis

Cutthroat Trout

Longnose Sucker

Catostomus catostomus

Mountain Sucker

Pantosteus jordani

Lake Chub

Couesius plumbeus

Lake Trout

Salvelinus namaycush

Common Carp

Cyprinus carpio

Longnose Dace

Rhinichthys cataractae

White Sucker

Catostomus commersonii

Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout

Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri

Burbot

Lota lota

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