Golden Trout Bighorn Mountains

The golden trout is normally found in the Golden Trout Creek Volcano Creek and the South Fork Kern River.

Golden trout bighorn mountains. Return by way of Buffalo Park back to the corrals. Imagine hiking deep into the wilderness of Wyoming using every ounce of your fishing dexterity and knowledge to catch one of these legends. For decades the alpine lake stocking program has used helicopters to deliver tens of thousands of trout to picturesque lakes many only accessible by foot or horseback across Wyoming.

We met somebody everyday but never shared a lake with anybody. Luring in a golden trout in the Bighorn Mountains would be the ultimate fishing story. It wasnt very big or very bright but it was a golden.

The California golden trout is closely related to two rainbow trout subspecies. The Bighorn and Beartooth mountain ranges are stocked on alternating years. On even years its the Bighorns turn.

Some of the most exciting fishing can be found in northern Wyomings magnificent Big Horn Mountains and Bighorn National Forest. The Golden Trout Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada in Tulare County and Inyo County California. 23082012 The first 20 or so fish I caught were brook trout but then I landed one that wasnt as dark.

The wilderness is. Not many have done it. You can even cast your line right into the South Fork of Clear Creek for those fighting Rainbow and German.

In this video I catch some gorgeous golden trout in a high mountain lake in central Idaho. Golden trout are spring spawners. Most of our golden trout waters are in the Wind River mountains Lander and Pinedale regions with others in the Absaroka Snowy and Bighorn mountains Laramie Cody and Sheridan regions.