Trekking in Wyoming for Goldens, Cutts, and Hybrids Part - 1
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- We went on our annual backpacking trip in Wyoming hoping to find some nice fish. Our main target was golden trout, but we also targeted cutthroats and some hybrids. The hike was pretty rough, but we had a blast and got into some decent fish. This is part 1 of a three part series. Thanks for tagging along. If you're not already a subscriber, be sure to do so for more backpacking and fly fishing content --- It's Adventure time!
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Wow. What a hike. Sorry for D’s fall and the number of river crossings.... gorgeous lakes. Looked like a lot of fun despite bad “shortcut”... super fun
It was fun even with the mishaps. I look forward to our Wyoming adventure all year long 😁
Always look forward to your videos. This one, like all of them, didn't disappoint! Great stuff!
Thanks Jeff. I'm glad you like the videos.
Love that outlet footage! Wyoming envy..
The outlet was super fun. It was non stop action there. I left out the vast majority of film from there. We landed a ridiculous amount of fish at that spot
Another amazing video adventure - thank you so much. P.S. "Off-the-trail" shortcuts and bushwhacking, IMO, rarely save time and are usually a big pain the "youknowwhat"!
Thats true, but in the end I was leaning toward the bushwhack on this particular trip as the better option --hindsight. The trail added about 2 1/2 miles more and added a lot of up.
Awesome country beautiful water and fishing is good too, thanks for the invite, thumbs up and greetings to all,, Tony.
Hiking all those miles paid off Tony 👍
Killer hike. They should call those the winded range. It’s hard to catch rumors. Got into the big ones finally. The views are hard to beat.
The hike was rough, but it was certainly worth it in the end.
We were just in Wyoming and we’re getting crazy hits from Golden Trout with a lemon lime balanced leech. It was amazing!
Going after goldens almost always brings along happiness with it. 👍
You make it look sooooo easy! Adventure on!!!!
That's why I bring Dyson, He doesn't even have to try.
Looks like a lot of work, but those are some beautiful fish.
It was indeed a lot of work--but it was worth it. We had a blast overall.
Love to see it!
Have you been out at all this summer Colton?
@@TroutHowler heck yeah!
Beautiful place and beautiful fish, can't wait for parts 2 and 3!
Oh yeah, I love it up there---sooo pretty. Hopefully parts two and three are ok--- It's just mostly fishing for the next two parts
Part 1 is awesome. I will definitely be watching for parts 2 and 3!
Hopefully parts two and three don't disappoint. 😁
Hit with a bit of everything. Any wild donkey around there?
Haha, we were hit with a little bit of everything. Do you ever get out fish Anthony?
@@TroutHowler I'm pretty much there always. My spirit is connected to natural pursuits, the interaction with nature sustains me though it is through your lens. Hopefully soon, I plan to walk from the southern Rockies at New Mexico in early spring north through to Kalispell, MT. I'll definitely bring two fly rods. I love unregulated / naturalized pack animals free to graze and drink in the forests and wilderness. I'll probably select two or three Burro's, either sisters or a Jack, Jennie and a foal. Along with three goats a Billy, Ewe, and a kid. I plan to post the trip on my own channel enroute so you'll know when we're in proximity. I'll probably opt to veer west through Utah then follow the divide through glacier Montana. Sometime afterwards I plan to spend one year towing a small boat to every lake from Glacier MT at ice off down to the gulf in Winter. In between Im studying aeronautical engineering, and everything. Eventually, I'll captain a seaworthy vessel, maybe a tug cruiser conversion up the inside passage slowly from April through August then back down into Washington.
Only one thing is missing...ME!
I knew something was missing--dang it!
Yes! More adventure time!
I need more time for adventure time. 😁
Awesome video! I’d love to catch some Wyoming goldens, my first fish on a fly was a golden trout but it pales in comparison to the ones in Wyoming
They are some nice goldens in Wyoming if one is willing to put in the miles
I do t think I have ever heard of a balanced a scud? Do you sell flies?
I don't sell flies. I don't have time for all the requests. They are tied similar to a balanced leech. You just cosmetically make them look like a scud instead of a leech. I show the balanced scud at the 8:25 mark of this video ua-cam.com/video/caaW0HbKdwg/v-deo.html
I think you shard a website from Wyoming Fish and Game that showed which lakes are
Managed for
goldens, could you share with me again?
wgfd.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=61d1fb66ead443e2af51aa2ada1f1eaa 👍
I went out to Wyoming for a backpacking trip a few weeks back. I had winds over 25 mph for 3-4 straight days which, combined with less fishing time than I'd hoped, hampered the fishing. I had trouble seeing trout in those conditions and didn't have much luck blind casting aside from one lake where they were taking the balanced leech (couldn't seem to find congregations of fish in the usual inlet/outlet scouting). That level of wind isn't something I've got much experience dealing with in the past.
What do you do when it gets that windy?
Unless it's just insanely windy we usually keep at it. I usually switch to a heavily weighted sink tip line that you can still manage to cast in the wind when it's really bad
I returned from the Winds a week and it w as blowing 25-50 mph. I used a spinning outfit and 1/4 Oz lures and scored 12-20” Cutts. Fly tod worked only in the areas where there was brookies
At one point my garmin's weather forecast was saying gusts of 65 mph and I believe it. I'll also add that I'm glad I mashed the barbs on all my flies before the trip and that my casting in the wind needs some work 😅.
Next time I go, my backup rod will be a spinning rod. I still caught plenty of good cutthroat, but it was kind of annoying that the wind really kept me from targeting them how I would've liked. If I could see them, though, they'd ruse to a dry.
You mind sharing which lures worked best for you? @@CDAFishboy
@@fishinbros7300I buy them by sight, rather than name. I would have to open up a online shopping.
But where and when and what colors mattered more. I did not fish the mornings. I was catching fish after the water warmed up by noon. I was striking out in some places and I moved. Inlets should have worked, but not much luck, 1 fish. No bright colors. Silver or gold spoons. Black streamers on a fly were working well. Anything with a lot of color did not work. If something did not work in 3 casts, I moved or tried a different lure. It was windy for many days, so fish could not wait. Normally I cannot get a bite in high winds. Was I just lucky? Maybe I was catching 5 fish per hour
hey TroutHowler, Love your videos and I've been a long time subscriber. My friends and I are heading out in search of Golden's in the Winds in late september this year. We're planning on camping at Island Lake, hitting Titcomb basin, mistake lake, potentially wall lake, elbow lake, and peak lake/stonehammer. Curious if you think we are on the right track with this itenerary or if you have any other recommendations. Also curious if you have any more info on the setup you are using. I'm planning on bringing the big orange scuds. Do you typically use a floating weight forward line, and what size leader/tippet do you use? I know you have your secrets but any advice would be much appreciated.
That's an ambitious route for sure. Big goldens tend to go deep by that time of year but not always. You'll want a sink tip for the scuds also a floating line to hang flies under an indicator. Take some chironomids--especially small ice cream cones (size 16). Just so you are aware, it's pretty sketchy going down to Stone from peak. Its a steep boulder field--at least this late in the season you won't have to worry about snow covered boulders.I rarely go lower than 3X. I never go lower than 4X on those trips. Good luck on your trip. Also be aware, that hike is a butt kicker.
@@TroutHowler Thank you so much for the reply and advice. We will have float tubes with us as well, so we can try and fish deeper! You are right about the hike, especially lugging the tube and fins but hopefully it will be worthwhile :)
@@joshvoss5294 You're packing in a tubes?? You are insane. I honestly don't think they will be that much of a benefit for goldens but I could be wrong--I've never done it. It that's the case, you'll probably want to take a full sinking line as well. Packing in a tube that far would kill me at my age
So awesome! 😀
I feel like you're never wrong Nathan.
Why the gloves?
@TroutHowler
My hands get destroyed If I don't wear the gloves. It started about the same time I started doing UA-cam fishing videos. My hands will look like I have a 3rd degree sunburn at the end of a trip if I don't use them and my skin will literally peel off. It kind of sucks when fishing happens to be your favorite passion. I get quite a bit of flack for using the gloves but it usually comes from uneducated know it alls that are just regurgitating something they heard when in all reality they have no actual clue what they are talking about. It is true that there can be a negative effect if too much of the mucoprotein protective layer is removed when handling fish with gloves or handkerchiefs etc. This tends to be more common when using organics vs synthetics, but gloves have been used in fish hatcheries for many many years and still are to this day. Miraculously the vast majority of the fish are fine