To answer your next to last question, yeah definitely, we've all been there. To answer your last question, I'll refer to the Five P's of Lawyering: Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance. The hunt for information is part of the game. If you embrace it, it can be almost as much fun as the actual fishing. It builds the anticipation. Of course, in time you have to learn to manage your expectations as well, because luck is the final ingredient in the most epic trips and you can't get lucky all the time. If that sounds kind of Zen, you're reading it correctly.
As you discovered, some internet searching was not quite enough information to get you on the right spots (although from the conditions you described, anyone would have had a tough time). You could have spent the money to acquire a guide who has already sorted out the Five P's in the area, but there are cheaper methods. Having been in the middle of great trout country and yet still been stumped on where to go next, don't you wish you had spent a couple bucks to buy a book on fishing in the region? A similarly wise investment would be to join your local TU chapter. TU members are a wealth of information and are always giving presentations about trips to far off places like Yellowstone, and the added bonus is that you're helping to support the fisheries you use. A final cost effective method for getting info is magazines. I have subscriptions, cause I'm a junkie like that, but you can order back issues of destination mags like Eastern Fly Fishing (and its regional corollaries) online.
My last words for you are to keep your head up. You went on a trip that could have been epic but your luck was not with you. That will change with persistence. Fishermen are eternal optimists - we have to be. Why else would we get up at ungodly hours to travel to obscure and remote destinations? Just try to find the brighter side of things when a destination doesn't live up to your expectations. As they say, a bad day on the water beats a good day at the office. You really have to live that phrase to appreciate it though.
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