Little Kern River Golden Trout, Fishing Native Wild Sierra Trout

We Fished the Little Kern River and caught beautiful Little Kern River Golden Trout and a few Rainbow Trout as well. We hiked in and camped for a couple days.

[@floydb9100]

holy shit that snake. scary stuff man haha

[@dawsonfishingadventures593]

Nice love it

[@williemickbillie]

there's the little kern rainbow and the little kern golden. two different trout. Also none of those were goldens btw

[@Surf176]

As far as I know there's no fish named "Little Kern River Rainbow", there's native Kern River Rainbow, California Golden and Little Kern River Golden. I think the fish in the video are diferent amounts of hybridized Little Kern Golden with KRR trout and stocked fish from back in the 70's. Some of the fish looked like strait Rainbow Trout 1:03 and others had more spotting below lateral line and defined parr marks 2:20 and 4:20 ,. The Kern River Rainbow has different coloring in my experience so not sure if that is in the mix. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4CZfGV9Yp10hZI . I believe these fish are certainly some percentage Little Kern River Golden but not pure by any means based on location. caltrout.org/sos/species-accounts/trout/little-kern-golden-trout-2 .

[@williemickbillie]

@@Surf176 sure pal. sorry to break it to you though but none of those were golden. they are very distinct even when hybridized. I've been fishing right there for decades now and have caught some good ones but none of those were hybrids even

[@Surf176]

//@@williemickbillie I think you're quite possibly right, I've caught Rainbow/Golden hybrids that are very distinct(although CA golden onSF Kern) but I figure there are varying degrees of hydbridization, sounds like you've done a lot of field research. I can tell you they are definitely not Little Kern River Rainbows :)