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The Dude
climber
Truckee, CA
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Aug 11, 2012 - 08:24pm PT
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Fogarty
climber
BITD
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 11, 2012 - 11:19pm PT
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Mountain Dog, nice color. Maybe Pâté has some with size?
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The Dude
climber
Truckee, CA
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Aug 11, 2012 - 11:26pm PT
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
where the wind always blows
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Aug 12, 2012 - 12:08am PT
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Fogarty
climber
BITD
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 12, 2012 - 01:18am PT
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The first post all Golden from the Sierra, look at the pass to my back, Beer question what is it?
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David Wilson
climber
CA
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Aug 12, 2012 - 12:03pm PT
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Fogarty, I'm thinking if you hiked up over that col above your left shoulder that you would arrive at a very high lake - that right?
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Chewybacca
Trad climber
Montana, Whitefish
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Aug 12, 2012 - 12:26pm PT
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In the mid eighties I worked on a project in the Golden Trout Wilderness. We had a contract to build fish barriers as part of an anti-hybridization project.
I haven't returned to that area since '86. I'm wondering if the project was successful. Does anyone here have any info on Golden Trout in that area. I'm not looking for any specific locations, just general info about pure Golden Trout. Hopefully non-native trout haven't been able to get over our barriers.
Of course all it takes is for one naughty person with a bucket of invasive fish to ruin the whole project.
Some great pictures above, such beautiful fish.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Aug 12, 2012 - 12:52pm PT
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My son Adam caught a Golden in the lakes below Conness when he was 12. Little feller was about 8" long and we admired it greatly and put it back. Didn't want to hold it out of the water long enough to dig out the camera for a pic.
A couple of years later I ran into a fish wildlife ecologist. He told me the "native" Sierra Goldens were fished to extinction. But luckily USFWS had hatched a large number and exported them to the Rockies. Perhaps including the Wind Rivers? When they went extinct in CA, they imported them back. He also said the Sierra variety seldom gets above 8 - 10"
Can anyone elaborate on this history?
Spectacularly beautiful little fish.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Aug 12, 2012 - 01:05pm PT
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Some nice fish pictures!
Never fished for Goldens.
I used to be a spin casting, treble hook dragging trout murderer and still love the taste of fresh trout.
I'm better educated now and understand the plight of our anadromous friends.
Don't remember when I last murdered a trout, not sure if I could unless I was starving.
Seeing pictures of dead trout makes me sad now.
Harass them if you must but pet em on the head and let em go.
Westslope Cutty on a #14 Stimulator, Oldman River, Alberta
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Aug 12, 2012 - 01:23pm PT
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Barb-less and probably still up there ;-)
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Fogarty
climber
BITD
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 12, 2012 - 10:10pm PT
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David Wilson, you know the Sierra and fish.
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David Wilson
climber
CA
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Aug 12, 2012 - 10:19pm PT
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Fogarty, what's interesting is we were at the other large lake in the same basin in 2007 and the fishing was unremarkable - everything may have changed up a bit since your youth
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Chinchen
climber
Way out there....
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Aug 12, 2012 - 11:32pm PT
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"I used to be a spin casting, treble hook dragging trout murderer"
Hey thats me!
You fly-guys are such snooty as#@&%es.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Aug 13, 2012 - 12:01am PT
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RP3
Big Wall climber
El Portal/Chapel Hill
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Aug 13, 2012 - 09:52am PT
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You never forget your first!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 14, 2012 - 08:19pm PT
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Haven't caught one since last Friday in Black Joe Lake.
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rcguy
climber
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Aug 14, 2012 - 10:25pm PT
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RP3,From the look of the peak behind you, we fish the same area.
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Aug 14, 2012 - 11:02pm PT
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As noted, I plan on taking my 12 year son this summer on this trip, I'm suprised at how small some of the fish are in the posts, it' been 29 years since last at this spot, are the true Goldens now scarce?
Yeah all you folks with your massive daily kills have fished 'em out.
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Sredni Vashtar
Social climber
LA CA via UK
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Aug 15, 2012 - 12:51am PT
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i saw some small fish (3-5 inch) up in heather lake in sequioa, i thought they might be some kind of char. 2 questions, are they golden trout? and how the fk did they get up to those glacial lakes?
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