Fly Fishing California's Backcountry for Trout! || California Gold Pt 1 (Little Kern Golden Trout)

In this video my brother Andrew and I go fishing for one of California's Native trout... The Little Kern Golden Trout.

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Believe it or not this adventure starts around 5 years ago when the California golden trout first made it on to my “bucket list” of fish I wanted to catch before I died. Although the golden trout has been spread to several other western states, I knew that I wanted my first golden trout to actually be caught in it’s native range. Thus, the idea for the California trip was born. The more research I did, the more insane the idea of the trip became. Fishing around the highest peak in the continental US, walking through the forest with some of the oldest living organisms found in the world, and standing amongst the towering giant sequoias was just the tip of the ice burg. The challenges we had to overcome, the dangers we tiptoed around, and the pure adventure we something neither of us could’ve ever been prepared for.

Trout fishing California was a little different than I expected. The ruggedness of the country we entered into was second to none. We backpacked into the wilderness and hiked around 11 miles on day number one.

Now some of you may be thinking “hey that just looks like a rainbow trout” and essentially you’re right. You see the only difference between the little kern golden and the kern river rainbow is a barrier on the lower end of the little kern. In other words they’re essentially the same fish that have just been separated for a few thousand years. Having said that, The Little Kern Golden was supposed to exhibit some California golden trout type colors which we just weren’t seeing. So in an attempt to catch a more vibrantly colored fish we decided to head up a tributary, which ended up working perfectly.

I hope everyone enjoyed this backcountry trout fishing adventure! Don't forget to leave a comment and let me know what you thought.

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