Fishing Forum

OK, I am writing this for two reasons. First of all, I posted these in a message entitled "Paintrock and Wind River Report" or something to that effect and a lot of you probably said "where is that?" or "why do I care?" Secondly, I tried to put the pictures in the message and "boofed" it. I need practice posting pictures and I am following "Old Coot's" instructions.

These trout were all caught spin cast (Rapalas, spoons and spinners) on the Paint Rock and Wind Rivers in Wyoming on a wonderful trip with my father and my "little" brother that we have been talking about for years and finally "just did it."


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Now those are some nice browns. Thanks for sharing. I've never had a chance to fish up that way, but I'd like to take a backpacking trip up to the windrivers one of these days. I think I'd target the Golden Trout....but hooking into some nice pig browns would also be fun.
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If you're talking backpacking, you would most certainly be talking higher up than where we fished. We fished the "Indian permit" water below Boysen Reservoir... just above Thermopolis.

If you want a great place to backpack, the Paint Rock (though no goldens) would be ideal. I say that because we had to hike about 2 1/2 miles to even get to the public water! Then it was about a 5 mile hike out! We said "next time we pack in!"
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