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 […]
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 […]
July 1-4 2016 My wife and I recently moved back to CA after living in western Kenya for a couple years. We were consulting for an NGO engaging economic development in East Africa. Given that it’s been a whirlwind of a return, we’d not yet spent a night in the backcountry so we decided to […]
Even though I’d been fly fishing for more than a decade I never really knew of the genetic diversity and integrity of trout until quite recently. When I’d heard of the Little Kern Golden Trout I thought people were simply referring to another niched golden like the Golden Trout Creek of Volcano Creek Goldens which […]