It was a busy day for Park County Search and Rescue on Friday last week, with rescuers responding to two simultaneous calls one in the Beartooth high country and the other one on a swollen Buffalo Bill Reservoir.
At roughly 4:45 p.m., Park County dispatchers received a report that a 67-year-old man and 72-year-old woman were unable to get back to their vehicle. The woman had been kayaking at Lily Lake in the Beartooths and overturned her kayak. Though she and her husband were able to get back to shore, she and her husband were too exhausted from the event to get back to their vehicle.
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(Bighorn River Basin, Wyoming) The Bureau of Reclamation has released their June forecast of the April through July runoff prediction.
Although inflows into Buffalo Bill Reservoir have been normal so far this season, the snowpack in the watershed has mostly melted and the inflows for the remainder of the summer are expected to be below average. Buffalo Bill Reservoir is not expected to fill completely. Bull Lake and Boysen Reservoirs are experiencing similar runoff scenarios but are expected to fill or come close to filling.
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âReclamation reservoirs in the Bighorn Basin are being operated to store inflows and manage releases to ensure water contractors will have a full water supply throughout the irrigation season,â said Wyoming Area Manager, Carlie Ronca.
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Report tagged trout caught in North Fork and Buffalo Bill Reservoir
Cody – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department reminds anglers fishing the North Fork of the Shoshone River and Buffalo Bill Reservoir west of Cody to report tagged trout.
As the July 1 and July 15 opener to fishing on the lower portion of the North Fork of the Shoshone River and North Fork arm of Buffalo Bill Reservoir approaches, Game and Fish asks anglers to report tag colors and numbers, the date and location where the fish was caught and if the fish was harvested or released.
For two consecutive years, Game and Fish captured, tagged and released trout in the North Fork of the Shoshone River in an effort to better understand seasonal distribution of trout in the North Fork and Buffalo Bill Reservoir and to help generate estimates of angler catch and harvest rate.