What’s going on everybody, wanted to come by here and get y'all's opinion real quick.
Me and my friends are taking a backpacking trip here soon to the wind river range in Wyoming. The landscape and trip itself already has me super excited as all I’m used to seeing here is strip malls and family dollars, but the real thing to do is going to be trout fishing.
I’ve done more and more research and watched videos on the area and I cannot wait to get out there. The only thing here though is every time I go trout fishing I use an ultra light trout set up to fish current, and I throw a joes fly spinner. For those who don‘t know the joes fly is literally a fly with a in line spinner. I have never fished deep still water for trout such as a lake, and I usually would just get out there and test some stuff out but I want to get some opinions for a trip like this. I got to do it right and hopefully luck my way into a golden.
For those of you who fish for trout with a conventional set up and not a fly rod, what would yall use in the range? Im definitely going to bring some joes flys and a assortment of rooster tails as I know they tear up the trout in the current; but for still water I’m thinking maybe some spoons/ extremely small lipless cranks? I am not too up to date on my trout tackle cause I usually just take what I got but this is the trip of a life time and I want to be set up right. Any advice would be greatly appreciated for fishing out there!
Thanks everyone! (P.S If I have to resort to flys I can but I usually end up catching more objects than fish on my fly rod, I’m not Exactly the best fly fisherman if I have to say so myself)