I use wood and plastic for trout casting from the bank on rivers and lakes. l catch some nice browns, cutthroat, rainbows and redsides. Luckycraft and Yozuri suspending jerk baits, broken back Rapalas, and Maglips as well as the old timey Flatfish. Our best wild Bonneville Cutthroat day ever was on a large reservoir at 6500 feet the spring of 2010. It was literally the day after ice out. My main fishing pal and I were throwing broken back Rapalas from the bank and released 80 fish ranging from 16"-27" long. That was an epic once in a lifetime day, but there were many other days in between of trout in respectable numbers that were of nice size. I have used all of the above with good success for trout on big rivers - sometimes swinging, sometimes working current and structure in deep holes, and more frequently retrieving across current in what I would call a semi-swing. They definitely work for trout. Go give it a try.