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 […]
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 […]