You can try either ultra-light tackle with spoons, spinners, and live bait or fly rod with long leaders, medium-weight lines, and caddisflies or midges. The best time to catch golden trout is early morning or late evening. The largest recorded specimen was 11 lbs. Golden trout usually weighs about 2 – 4 lbs. The golden trout grows between 6 – 12 inches long but can grow to around 15 inches in good conditions. The striking colors of golden trout earned it a spot as California’s official state fish. The dorsal, lateral, and anal fins have one dark stripe each and white tips. It has bright red or pink horizontal stripes with around ten dark vertical marks on both sides. Golden trout is bright yellow-gold color, with the dorsal side often coppery-olive or coppery-green, and deep red belly. Many anglers consider golden trout one of the most beautiful freshwater fish you can catch in the US. To prevent the extinction of golden trout, the US Fish and Wildlife Service introduced the fish in Wyoming, Washington, and Idaho’s lakes and rivers. Now it is native to two watersheds in high altitudes in Sierra Nevada Mountains. Once upon a time, you could catch golden trout on a stretch of 450 miles up the South Fork Kern River and its tributaries. Golden trout, also called California golden trout, is one of the rarest fish in the US, alongside its cousin palomino trout (a hybrid between West Virginia golden trout and rainbow trout.) Some species are pretty rare, and therefore more prized by anglers. Some of them are plentiful, like carp, crappie, mackerel, or redfish. Between freshwater and saltwater fishing, there are thousands of species of fish anglers catch every year.
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