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  Paintrock Adventures
The golden trout is native to the South Fork of the Kern River in California.
Golden trout in high lakes often feed for only very short periods during the day, so the successful fisherman must spend a lot of time to make sure he's on the the water at the right time.
Golden trout are distinguished from cutthroats by the absence of basibranchial teeth and white border on the pelvic and anal fins.
www.paintrock.com /goldenTrout.htm   (205 words)

  
 Golden Trout
Golden trout may have a light pink to bright red band on the side, similar to rainbow trout.
RANGE AND HABITAT: The golden color phase of the rainbow trout found in Ohio and other Midwest states is not to be confused with the golden trout of the western United States (Oncorhynchus aguabonita).
The Division of Wildlife raises golden trout to a size of 10 to 13 inches in a period of 16 months.
www.dnr.state.oh.us /wildlife/fishing/aquanotes-fishid/gtrout.htm   (231 words)

  
 Volcano Creek Golden Trout
All the native trout in the Kern drainage can be referred to as "golden trout." They are closely related and are classified as a subspecies of their distant relative, the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss.
California golden trout in the South Fork Kern River are threatened by brown trout through predation and competition for food and habitat.
Golden trout from Cottonwood Lakes were aerially stocked in several of the lakes in the headwaters of Golden Trout Creek before it was known that these fish were hybridized.
members.tripod.com /stevenojai/goldtrout.htm   (1211 words)

  
 Trout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trout is the common name given to a number of species of freshwater fish belonging to the salmon family, Salmonidae.
Trout are usually found in cool, clear streams and lakes, although many of the species have anadromous strains, as well.
Because of their popularity, trout are often raised on fish farms and planted into heavily fished waters in an effort to mask the effects of overfishing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trout   (698 words)

  
 Golden Trout : A Guide to Fly Fishing for Golden Trout
Golden trout have very limited range, as they are only found in high alpine lakes and streams found in the Rocky Mountains and the Cascades.
Golden trout, despite the relatively low fishing pressure they receive, can be somewhat difficult to catch, as they tend to be fickle about what they eat.
Since golden trout are not very common, it is recommended that any anglers who catch a golden trout release it instead of eating it.
www.flyfishinggear.info /how_to/golden_trout.shtm   (360 words)

  
 California Golden Trout May Need Protection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
California golden trout are now limited to two watersheds - the Golden Trout Creek drainage and the headwaters of the South Fork Kern River.
Both are in the Golden Trout Wilderness - part of the Inyo National Forest - in some of the highest watersheds in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains.
Declines in populations are a result of hybridization with introduced rainbow trout and competition with introduced brown trout.
www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/InNews/CAgoldtrout2002.htm   (352 words)

  
 California's Sierra Golden Trout, by Ralph Cutter
Most Sierra goldens touted as easily accessible by car are invariably rainbow trout with only a hint of golden trout in their genetic lineage.
The golden trout of the Monache Meadows area have grossly hybridized with rainbows and are at best ugly stepsisters of their purebred backcountry cousins.
Golden trout are opportunistic feeders and rarely pass by an offering as long as you don't give it too much movement.
www.flyfisherman.com /southwest/rcgoldens   (1880 words)

  
 Seafood: Trout
The challenge in serving trout is to preserve and enhance its delicate flavor.
Their seagoing cousins, salmon and steelhead (the latter a rainbow trout that has migrated to the ocean), eat a higher proportion of crustaceans, mainly small shrimp and their smaller relatives called krill, and have resultingly darker orange meat.
This is not the same as the wild golden trout, a separate species native to a few streams of California's Sierra Nevada, but simply a color strain of domestic rainbow trout.
www.sallys-place.com /food/columns/harlow/rainbow_trout.htm   (1220 words)

  
 Golden trout - Discover The Outdoors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Golden trout have fl speckles along the top from the nose to the tail, as well as larger fl spots on the sides.
The native range of the golden trout is very small: The Kern, Little Kern, and Golden Trout streams of the upper Kern River drainage in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
Golden trout are found in cold, high-elevation streams and lakes between 6,000 and 10,000 feet.
www.dto.com /fwfishing/species/generalprofile.jsp?speciesid=310   (636 words)

  
 Golden Trout 2004
Golden trout are relatively small, only getting about a foot in length at the most.
That creates a barrier so the hybridized golden trout and brown trout are all stuck below the barrier while the more genetically pure goldens can live in peace above the barrier.
The brown trout were removed while the golden trout were returned safely to the water.
www.konaearth.com /GoldenTrout   (4667 words)

  
 ESPN Outdoors - Profile: Golden Trout
Golden trout were originally limited to lakes and streams located in altitudes over 6000 feet, but they have since been stocked in lower-lying bodies of water.
Golden trout will feed mostly on crustaceans and insects.
Aside from that one shortcoming, golden trout have an excellent, oily flesh that can be eaten fresh or smoked.
sports.espn.go.com /outdoors/fishing/news/story?page=f_enc_GoldenTrout   (172 words)

  
 National State-Fish Art: California State Fish
Golden trout have brilliant gold sides with a red horizontal band and 10 dark oval marks called "parr marks." Their fins have white edges.
Golden trout feed on insects, especially caddis flies and midges, and also eat small crustaceans.
The brilliant colors of the golden trout disappear if they are stocked at altitudes lower than 6,000 feet.
www.statefishart.com /states/west/ca.htm   (296 words)

  
 Golden trout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Contrary to common belief that golden trout parr marks persist throughout their adult life, golden trout lose parr marks at 17 inches.
Golden trout inhabit high altitude lakes due to their inability to compete with the other trout species.
After then-Colonel Chuck Yeager introduced one of his commanding officers, General Irving "Twig" Branch to the Sierra Nevada species of golden trout, Branch ordered Yeager and Bud Anderson to introduce the species to the mountain streams of New Mexico, where they can be fished to this day.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Golden_Trout   (430 words)

  
 Alberta's Golden Trout - FAOL's Our Man In Canada #306
Golden trout are native to the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges of California.
Golden trout were originally stocked in Alberta in 1959 in Barnaby and Rainy Ridge Lakes.
Golden trout cannot successfully cohabitate with brown or brook trout, but will cohabitate with cutthroat and rainbows with which they hybridize quite readily.
www.flyanglersonline.com /features/canada/can306.html   (2473 words)

  
 Golden Trout in Wyoming
I felt confident that my 4X tippet would be enough to subdue the big trout, but the impressive fight of this wild fish finally earned his freedom when he went down under a sharp edged boulder that shredded my tippet.
Rather than feel disappointed over losing the biggest golden trout I had ever seen, I was excited about the prospect of camping by this wonderful pool for the next few days.
We caught many beautiful goldens, and, while we fished, the big trout that I had lost earlier was often visible and I hooked him again on a large orange scud that drifted deep.
www.utahoutdoors.com /pages/goldentrout.htm   (1766 words)

  
 CGT Info Center: California Golden Trout
The California golden trout (CGT formerly known as the Volcano Creek golden trout) is “one of the most strikingly colored trout in the world” (Benke 1992).
The California golden trout is extremely susceptible to hybridization with non-native rainbow trout.
The California golden trout is in danger of extinction caused by hybridization and by the destruction and adverse modification of its habitat.
www.tucalifornia.org /cgtic/CGTbasics.htm   (461 words)

  
 GOLDEN TROUT!!!
olden trout are one of only a few species of fish native to the southern Sierra Nevada, originating in a small section of the Kern Plateau in the Golden Trout Wilderness.
The golden trout's environment was no longer a healthy and sustainable ecosystem.
The golden "Fish from Heaven" was brought to the edge of extinction.
www.ridgecrest.ca.us /~auborn/agua/goldentrout.html   (513 words)

  
 Golden Trout in Alberta - Alberta Sustainable Resource Development
Golden trout are native only to a few small lakes and streams at high elevations in the Sierra Nevada of California.
Golden trout are very specialized for their particular environment, and do not do well in lower-elevation streams and lakes.
The short growing season of the high mountain lakes does not allow this trout to grow fast, and so most golden trout are small.
www.srd.gov.ab.ca /fw/fishing/golden.html   (159 words)

  
 Golden Trout Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Golden Trout is a relative of the lost California native, the Sea Run Coastal Rainbow Trout.
Golden Trout are small only about five to seven inches although ten inches has been recorded.
Golden Trout are the least reproductive of the trout family because of long cold winters and high elevation make food scarce.
huntingsociety.org /GoldenTrout.html   (569 words)

  
 Golden Trout Wilderness, Inyo National Forest, - Mammoth Lakes City Concierge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The area was named for the native trout of this area and its subspecies, the Little Kern Golden Trout the California state fish.
The Golden Trout Wilderness is a good area for novice backpackers and stock users.
Other areas within the Golden Trout Wilderness permit campfires with a proper campfire permit where no resource damage will be done unless fire danger restrictions are in effect.
www.cityconcierge.com /activities/golden_trout.shtml   (837 words)

  
 The Ecological Angler - Golden Trout (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Golden trout are rainbow trout, so the general attributes of rainbows apply to this subspecies.
Three subspecies of rainbow trout (collectively referred to as golden trout) are native to the upper Kern River basin.
These three golden trout are members of the redband-rainbow trout complex found in isolated areas of California and Oregon.
www.ecoangler.com.cob-web.org:8888 /species/golden.html   (242 words)

  
 Mexican golden trout
Like other trout of mainland Mexico, the Mexican Golden Trout prefers clear and cold headwater streams, mostly above 6000 feet in altitude, and is most abundant some distance from roads and bridges.
The first museum specimens of Mexican Golden Trout were captured in August of l952 by Stan Weitzman and Jack Lattin from Arroyo de la Rana (a tributary of the Rio Verde -- tributary to Rio Fuerte) in southwestern Chihuahua.
Weitzman and Lattin were "trout hunting" for Paul Needham and Richard Gard, whose 1959 monograph "Rainbow Trout in Mexico and California" was the first substantial publication of any sort on native trout of Mexico.
www.americanfishes.com /mexico/chrysogaster.htm   (261 words)

  
 Little Kern Golden Trout
The Little Kern Golden trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss whitei),is native to high elevation streams and lakes in the Little Kern River, a major tributary to the Kern River in the southern Sierra Nevada.
The introduced fish hybridized with the goldens, making an offspring that was not a pure golden trout.
By 1990, after almost 20 years of conservation efforts, the Little Kern golden trout was restored to about 60% of its range in the drainage.
members.tripod.com /stevenojai/lkgold.htm   (337 words)

  
 Idaho Fish n Hunt - Trout
Rainbow trout are the most widespread trout in Idaho, occurring naturally in most major drainages and introduced wherever else habitat will support them.
Brook trout, native to the eastern U.S., do well in higher elevation Idaho waters from small streams to alpine lakes but the largest may be found in Henrys Lake.
Grayling are not trout but they are taken from the same waters by the same methods and are highly regarded by most trout anglers.
www.idfishnhunt.com /troutmenu2.html   (735 words)

  
 Golden Trout Guided Pack Trips
Golden Trout are the most elusive and difficult trout to catch, however, they are the most colorful and thrilling to pursue.
Our area is without a doubt one of the best Golden Trout areas in the country.
There are many national articles on our Golden trout guide service.
www.bwo.com /Fishing_Golden_Trout.asp?menuID=14~14   (221 words)

  
 Kern River Golden Trout Resort
Kern River Golden Trout Resort is a new two-story motel on the Wild and Scenic Kern River.
Many guests at the Golden Trout Resort have commented that the beds are the most comfortable that they have ever slept in.
The Kern River Golden Trout Resort is adjacent to some of the Kern River's finest fishing and swimming holes.
www.goldentroutresort.com   (978 words)

  
 Trout Species - Information on Brook Trout
Unlike Brown Trout which were originally introduced to the Eastern United States, Cutthroat Trout are originally from the Western half of the United States.
These beautiful trout are golden in color, so are hard to mistake for other types of fish.
Since Golden Trout are not very common, it is recommended that anglers who catch Golden Trout release them instead of eating them.
www.whatprice.co.uk /gardening/fishing/cutthroat-golden-trout.html   (724 words)

  
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Sportfishing and hunting rapidly depleted the populations of Golden Trout.
Competition with introduced fish species, such as Brown Trout and Brook trout had severely reduced Golden Trout populations, and worse yet, interbreeding with introduced Rainbow Trout had caused the Golden Trout to hybridize, that is, to have offspring that are neither Golden nor Rainbow Trout.
The Volcano Creek Golden Trout restoration was completed in the early 80's, and over 90 miles of river and tributaries were restored.
home.pacbell.net /gtfund/page15.html   (579 words)

  
 Golden Trout Wilderness Hiking - Hikes
Big Whitney Meadow is laced with clear creeks teeming with golden trout and...
This route is one of the few that allow exploration of the wonderfully diverse country on both sides of the Kern River, making use of the only two bridges within the wilderness spanning the main fork...
Golden Trout Camp, operated by the Thacher School in Ojai, California, is used by the Audubon Society and other educational organizat...
www.trails.com /activity.asp?area=14767   (846 words)

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