The "Real" Golden Trout of Volcano Creek | Heritage Trout Mapping E02P01 

Besides myself,you are the only guy I have ever saw who gets down low to trout fish.I tip my hat to u sir.Great job there.I also were dark clothing to match the surroundings.

I just bought a property 5 miles from where little Kern meets the Kern. I am going to head out from there sometime in the next few weeks and spend some time back in there. Maybe someday I will guide the area. Oh and when you come up on a small creek ,,,,,, act like a cloud LOL Something I learned about my immediate area is that some of these small creeks in steep areas have very small ponds carved out of rock. Now you may think there is nothing there but some are like trout aquariums and I have seem some 3 pound rainbows sitting like they are the only thing that matters. Finding these requires a lot of rock climbing sometimes but wow what a shock when you do .

That mountain is very recognizable and I’ve never been there but know where it is

Great to see my cousin has his own fishing channel.

I always respect when anglers don’t share their locations. Ironically I have been doing a lot of research for a bucket list trip to catch the Golden Trout and you are doing pretty much the exact route I was planning! What a treat to find this video. I’m planning on a trip next month for my birthday. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

Brian, you love your hobbie and your videos are so informative. I learned so much.

I love the soundtrack of this video

Nice video caught a golden trout in the eastern Sierra glad I was able to release safely...

Nice video, thank you. My father and I went there in the early 90s. We caught the biggest volcano goldens were the volcano rock actually meets the creek. Largest 11 and a half inches. Beautiful fish and memories. Happy I found this video! .

Seen a few vids.on fishing Golden's I'm native waters where they're catching for the pam. No net. Probably barbed hooks. Sickening.

Excellent content, much better than the usual YT whooping and hollering with no useful information. Much appreciated. PIcked up a trick that might be useful? When I forget to wet my hand, or for anyone who has trouble bending down to the water...just put your hand on the bottom of the wet net and Bob's your uncle.

Great job out there. I have the same Tenkara rod. It works great.

Awesome videos man! Make it back to volcanic creek. Its tiny but worth it!

Great video! This is on my bucket list! I will catch & release one someday! I live at the mouth of the Kern Canyon.

My son and I passed through the Golden Trout Wilderness on our JMT thru hike. We caught Golden Trout on our way through. I”m from PA but we’ve been to CA many times in the past few years. We have 4 of the Heritage Trout under our belts so far. Great videos man! Will be watching them all.

yeah I've been up and around those parts back in the late 90s looking for those species of golden trout. there is totally a major difference in the volcano and Volcanic Golden's , beauty footage by the way. the one thing I'm not a fan of, up in that wilderness is the livestock and fence. If there is going to be so much effort, time, and money to protect a species then keep it completely wild wilderness. I use to work for the Department of Fish and game and I was lucky enough to be a part of dropping fish from a plane into Yosemite today that had all change.

Where you using a Tenkara rod? Informative video.

15 fish solo over 2 days averaging 2-4in maxed at a nice 7-8in at headwaters right before the dry up as of 10/21/21 low flow in SKF and everywhere prefreeze.

What blows my mind is the flat water. Nothing like trout water in nc. Those streams look like what I would catch catfish here.

27:20. I read the reason gowboys planted trout into Cottonwood creek is so they could catch fish for food while driving cattle to and from the high meadow. The only reason there are trout in the Kern River and it's tributaries is steelhead used to travel to and from the sea and spawn in the high tributaries. Then a volcano cut the steelhead off from the sea and they evolved into the Golden Trout species. I'm thinking the species evolved in volcano/volcanic creek - upstream from where lava cut the creek off from the sea. Then maybe the South Fork strain was the result of transplant by cowboys or who knows, maybe native peoples.

Great video. I re-did much of my heritage challenge fish much like you did - backpacking through the GTW being part of it, for the goldens and KRR (Trout creek, Volcano creek, upper kern river). Volcano Meadow felt like being on the moon. Did you do Eagle lake? Man that was the most difficult by far. I plan to revisit GTW again (Horseshoe to the Kern River Valley)

Wow this video was amazing. cant wait to watch the rest. What is that net you have on your belt with the leather sheath? Thats awesome

That's the fish (and the creek) featured in McClane's _Standard Fishing Encyclopedia._

Is there water in this creek year round? Seems like it would dry out by summer end and freeze solid in winter. If so, how do the fish survive the dry/frozen season? What months is this actually fishable? Loved the video! Going to watch your other videos next.

did you fish volcanic in the meadow or up the left stringer?? i believe the left stringer is what is talked about in the study as being the purest. they look like the mulkey ones. really dark gold.

Awesome video! Did you use a Tenkara fly or a hopper pattern?

What net do you have I have been looking for a packable net.

Have you ever saw anything strange while hiking to your spots?

What trailhead did you start at?

How big do those Goldens get?

14 min there's someone on your 6

i mean if they come from golden trout creek in little whitney meadow they're the "REAL" golden trout. but I've caught them all over on both sides.

So mulkey counts for the heritage and the mulkey goldens are native ?

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What month was this footage filmed

How do you find the stories about the golden trout?

I have to stick around to find out? Uh. Skip to the end. Haha. Lame.

The most over used adjective in the English language, without a doubt, has to be the word awesome. Awesome this, awesome that. Everything is now awesome. Its frequency of use has completely diminished its original meaning down to a synonym of the words neat or cool. Wow, that's really neat, huh? Yeah, cool! We speak English. But just barely.

Too bad you filmed this with a potato