With the fishing season coming to a close in the next couple of months and another trip to Kenya on the horizon I wanted to get back to the GTW. I’d intended to target the Little Kern Golden Trout over Labor Day but the Pier Fire messed with my plans. Anytime you’re planning a back […]
September 2017 The Clavey is my favorite river in CA. Hands down. The fish are not the biggest nor are they the easiest to land but the scenery and genetic purity more than compensate. The river is the longest undamed (non-tributary) in the state. The falls that plunge it into the Tuolomne river significantly limited […]
July 23-25, 2017 My father introduced me to fly fishing so many years ago. I wanted to spend some quality time with him and invited him to search for native trout with me. Given the international nature of my job, we have not always had the ability to fish together. In fact, it had been […]
My wife, a friend, and I (the same trio as last year) made our way into the heart of native golden trout territory. Our target was Volcano Creek to see how it’s fairing as a result of the record 2016/17 rainfall and snowpack. We loaded up our gear and left Orange County, CA at 4:00am […]
My buddy Colin and I decided to get away for the weekend. Late Friday night we blasted our way up to the Kern River basin and entered the Golden Trout Wilderness. We wanted to see how the low water levels were affecting the distribution of Little Kern Golden Trout and rainbows that were planted into […]
I needed to be in South Lake Tahoe for a meeting in late September and knew that the window to catch native lahontan cutthroat in the Tahoe basin was quickly closing. For those of you who don’t know, any waters that drain into Lake Tahoe are only opening for fishing from July 30 to Sept […]