Fishing for Giant California Golden Trout | Backpacking in the Sierras | Lucky Tides Fishing
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- 3 day backpacking trip up into the remote wilderness of the Sierra Nevadas. Gnarly hike to our campsite and ran out of water. Took about 6 to get there, which was much longer then expected. We caught lots of Brooke trout on day one. Day 2 we hiked another few miles to our second lake. We heard a rumor that this lake might hold the elusive golden trout and we were not let down. I caught the biggest trout I’ve ever caught and it was a golden! All around it was an awesome trip and one of the hardest, most rewarding, and most beautiful hike I’ve ever done in the sierras. No catch and cook this time by next time we will be eating lots of trout. Come along and watch the journey. Let me know what you guys think!!
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You should go single hook and barbless. If you truly want to cat h these beautiful fish for generations to come you should think about the fish and less about the photo. Wet your hands please. Thank you.
And please no putting the fish on the dry land
My favourite was the one he dropped on the rock. " Great catch and release "
Unless you want to wipe goldens out in the unnatural range- which I favor. In which case, throw triple barb Rapalas at them, or lead weights big enough to crack their skulls...
Outstanding presentation my friend. Shots are beyond amazing here😮
Thanks a lot man! I really appreciate it. Fortunately for me, the scenery does all the heavy lifting! All I have to do is turn on my camera and nature works overtime.
Love the video showing the beauty of my back yard
Thanks for the love! Your a lucky man John!! That’s a beautiful backyard!
That nice trout that bounced his head off the rock did not live, should have just kept it to eat!,, no shame in eating trout
Love your vid quality but, catch and release techniques, wellll...
Haha thanks for enjoying the vid!
Those are cut throats maybe mixed with goldens
Definitely not strait up goldens.
Yeah... Not goldens
U are clueless haha called female Golden's dude
Awesome video man, you captured the adventure really well. Just found this channel and subscribed. Golden trout are some awesome fish. Looks like some beautiful scenery as well!
Thanks Dude!! I tried to really catch the essence of the trip. I appreciate the subscription. Many more videos to come. I have a bunch of trip planned coming up shortly.
@@luckytidestv Awesome, I look forward to seeing the videos! Enjoy the trips!
Thanks!!
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@@luckytidestvu every fly fish in the sierras? Debating if i should fly fish or spin fish in the backcountry.
Beautiful country, nice video. I'm glad you didn't eat a mushroom you couldn't identify. That thing looked a lot like an old panther cap which is an amanita variety and very toxic.
Thanks! Yeah that’s good to know for the future. Not that I would eat any mushroom off the ground. I could be 99.9% sure and was still second guess myself. And then probably die from a panic attack even if it was safe. I appreciate the watch!
You two are f-ing AWESOME !!!!!
Proud to be your family.
Happy to be your friend.
OneLove ❤💛💚
Thanks Kenny! ❤️
I fished Kings Canyon Park lakes & streams in the 1950s and 1960s for Golden Trout. The record for size is from Colorado.
Must have been even more beautiful back then!
I consider myself blessed.@@luckytidestv
Ur wrong it's Wyoming wind river range I live in Colorado stop talkn if u dnt know what ur sayn
@@user-ju8yo7rt2w sorry..wyoming it is . I was only 2 years old then.
The reclusive and elusive Golden Trout. Thought these wiley Trout were only in Kern River tributaries......Keep on fishing dude.😅
They were stocked in many high elevation lakes in the sierras back in the day. There are a bunch of lakes up there only have Goldens in them. This one may have been some sort of hybrid cause his colors weren’t super dark. Thanks for watching!
I grew up in lake Isabella, and caught golden trout in one of those tributaries. I won't say which one, but for those who put in the work, they are absolutely beautiful. Look for the bright orange marking on the underside of the fish.
Goldens from the original Kern Plateau country we transplanted to hundreds of lakes up and down the range back in the 30's and 40's. The Sierra record back in the day was over 9 pounds (!!!!!!) out of Lake Virginia (the one on the Muir, an 11 mile hike out of Mammoth), not the Virginia lakes you can drive to off 395). Nothing anywhere near that big in that lake today- maybe a pound now and then. 2 pound goldens can still be found in some very remote lakes down on the Kern Plateau (where they evolved) and in the remote Kern Basin (in Sequoia Park), and also in Kings Canyon, but it's an expedition to get into them. Their original range was extremely limited (upper Golden Trout Creek (over Cottonwood Pass) and it s tributaries, such as Volcanp Creek, which evolved its own bright red variant due to then presence of reddish-colored lava - basalts in the stream bed). These natural goldens were transplanted by shepherds, cattlemen, and early-day fishermen to hundreds of formerly "barren" alpine lakes, where the apex predators were frogs. Because if that disruption to the natural ecosystem, he Golden Trout in alpine lakes are now quite controversial. They simply do not belong up there, as far as Nature is concerned. Fishermen love them- but frog lovers and biologists hate them. Of course, there are a lot more fishermen than frog lovers- but that does not make Golden Trout "right." Only Nature can determine what is right. If you don't care about doing the right thing- which would be to catch every remaining golden and eat it, thus wiping them out of the high country, then any golden over 11"- 12" should be released- they are that rare. By eating the "dinks" you thin out their overpopulated hordes and reduce the competition for food, making it possible for the bigger ones to find enough sparse natural food in these high lakes. And big trout can eat mire frogs than little trout. It's worth repeating that no trout of any kind were native to any truly High Sierra lakes except the goldens in Rocky Basin Lakes, a few tiny lakes at the headwaters of the Golden Trout Creek drainage. Some amphibians such as the yellow-legged frog have become nearly extinct due to this unnatural predation by "exotic" trout. The Park Service has been eliminating goldens, and all other species, from many lakes above 10.000,' to save the natural ecosystems of alpine lakes, which nature intended to be devoid of trout of any kind. As an avid hiking fisherman in my youth, I protested this movement , but as an old man reduced to watching these RUclips videos for my Sierra "fix," I have come to realize that when we tamper with any bit of nature, we tamper with all of it. I now take heart that the great John Muir himself was not a fisherman (although there were plenty of rainbows in the Merced and all other mid-elevation Sierra rivers), but he left them alone, despite the boredom of his own diet composed of nothing but bread, cheese, and tea. I totally understand the lure of golden trout, but I would encourage all true fishermen to do your own research into this controversy and come to understand what John Muir understood- that nature is never wrong, and that humans always are. The best thing to do with goldens now is to fish them out of the high lakes, and encourage their growth in only the Golden Trout Creek watershed above Volcano Falls. Currently, it's almost unheard of to catch a golden bigger than about 6" from this drainage, in part due to habitat degradation from a century of unregulated overgrazing by cattle, as well as intense overfishing with minimal enforcement of regulations. A world-class, catch-and-release golden fishery could be developed there, where Nature intended, all the way up to Rocky Basin Lakes, with intense enforcement by DFG wardens. Plus, catching big goldens from streams is far more exciting than lake fishing. Your thoughts?
There's a lot of rookies up there too
Oh that's definitely around lee vining cause that breathing sounds real familiar walking from lake to lake hahahahahahahahahahaha
Bahahaha. Well then you could say I’m constantly around Lee Vining cause I breath like that everywhere 😅
This for sure looks like the Hilton lakes out of rock creek. I recognize those mule steps on the hike.
It’s not but I do wanna do that trail soon!
You need to purchase a California trout baking license if you plan to bake trout not less than once every 12 weeks.
Awesome dude
Thanks!
Where’s that orange tackle box from
Amazon. They have a bunch of different sizes. Great for small tackle and flies.
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Looks like a great time, did you guys encounter any other campers/fisher up there when you were there?
Nobody fishing but we saw 2 groups of people hunting! Thanks for watching!
Ha Ha, that was not a golden. Likely a mix of something with the larger rainbows that have been planted here and there. They are fat, it's surprising to catch them. Goldens will have a very bright red belly, and really yellow sides, and are typically 8 inches or so in a lake. I've hiked the whole JMT and the rivers and lakes along it have tons of them, they are not hard to find. Evolution Lake had lots, and would not bite my fly. EVERYTHING bites my flies, what the heck! lol
That’s for watching and thanks for the info! Yes did look like some sort of hybrid even know my research showed that this lake was only supposed to hold Goldens. Good luck fishing go forward and stay tuned for another video!
@@luckytidestv A beautiful fish, no doubt. BTW, try fly and bubble method sometime. Its really just lure fishing with a fly, but you can cast twice as far and reach areas you can't with lures. Also, you can tie flies and feel like a real fly fisherman, lol. Works for me. When you do catch a golden, they are indeed amazing. The faces are iridescent orange and yellow. I feel bad eating them, sort of.
Did I miss the name of this place or is another secret that millions of people already know about? It looks familiar just can't place the name. Haven't been to the sierra's in some time now. I've got about 25000 miles invested in to the sierra's. Used to spend all my free time there and actually live up there for a year and a half just wondering around. It's definitely the only place I miss about Ca. Well, maybe the ocean too as I love scuba. Thanks for the memories. I'll get back there again before I die.
This one starts right up in the Mammoth area. Not very well known though. Sounds like a dream! You def got to make it up again!
That wasn't a golden trout tho. very different
try handling ur trout better
bro hiking in vans? lol! thats it bro
Haha yeah they are the MTE-2s. Pretty legit hiking boots.
What trail head did you start from
Dude
A lake and you ran out of water come on genz. Please hike where there's a bus stop.
We ran out of water on the hike to the lake. Obviously had water when we got there. A bunch of the stream crossing that were on the map had dried out. Learned a valuable lesson that day.
Cool video! What camera are you using? Thanks!
Thank you! Did the footage look decent? Any of the first person footage or tripod footage is a Go Pro 10 and the b-roll and clips of me talking are on my IPhone 13. I keep it pretty simple!
@@luckytidestv Yup, it looked more than decent! I've heard lots of bad things with the Go pro but who knows. Thanks!
@@adloutdoors they are great! Easy to use. Great for 1st person action stuff. Pretty durable. The batteries only last like an hour though. That’s the downfall. So you need a bunch of them. But I plug mine into a portable battery pack and then you can use it as long as you want. I have a 10 and the 12 is out now. Mine records up to 4k but I think I only have it at 1080p or possibly 2700 in the video.
Almost looks like little gold lake
No but I’ll have to check that out!!
Rookies I wish these RUclips rooks would stop
Learn how to handle trout!! That fish is as good as dead.
which trailhead did u start from?
I try to keep this on the DL. But it was up in the Mammoth area!
@@luckytidestv fasho bro, cant be blowing up the best spots! i get it , i love that mammoth to lone pine area, good fishing , i have a good idea where ur at , i'll see if my guess is right haha , nice goldens bro!
Hi what lakes were you at!
I believe it's called Notellum
@@paultiplea bahaha just saw this 👍🏼
I haven't been here but I think I know. FN ** AA?
Is that supposed to be the first and last letter of both lakes? Cause if so that’s pretty impressive
Cottonwoods?
No but I’m hoping to make it up there this year
@@luckytidestv nice! I’m headed to monache meadows in a couple weeks. I backpacked out to the cottonwoods.. and had an epic time!
Time for you Boys to backpack in Montana !!!
That would be an absolute dream! I bet the wilderness is absolutely epic! Is that where you live?
@@luckytidestv yep I’m in Montana the City is Billings
We are about 150 miles from Yellowstone Park !!
@@luckytidestv there is a grate place up in the mountains about 100 miles from were I’m at
5 lake’s you guy would love !! ((( we I tell you is heaven on Earth )) I’m not blowing Smoke up your butt !!
Big wild rainbow , Big Brooke trout And Gold trout !!
@@luckytidestv there only one thing (((( there are grizzly bears ))) Bear spray and a 44 mag is a must
In the Back Country of Montana !!!
Oh man I’ll check you out for sure. Just those names alone make it sound magical. I’ll be making in out there for sure!! Yeah I would love to backpack the Yellowstone area but then damn grizzlies scare the sh*t outta me
Goldbow
What was the name of the first lake you guys hiked up to?
Nobody ever says, they think that every single person who sees the video is going to go to the spot and ruin it because everyone lives close enough and has the time to do it
@@NoFilterFishinglmfao right 😂😂 this clown probably found out from another clown they try and keep it hush hush for no reason
Not one of those is big average but not big
Just a heads up. If you're going to expose my backyard please emphasize ethical fishing and respect of the environment, and pack your trash out as well.
Get over yourself. Also, he never said where he was. Don't be a karen.
Seriously my back yard lmao relax man these lakes have been exposed for a while 😂
@@electricfila few poachers can have a long lasting impact on these delicate and isolated fisheries… just smile and nod buddy all we want is nature to stay natural. If you can’t understand the frustration that was written into t. Obriens comment, then you clearly don’t understand the potential impact of even a single litterbug in a place like this. All we want is respect for our Mother Nature. and, of course, for the content creators using that nature to restate the importance of following the local codes so as to not create a population of ignorant backcountry users. If you can’t dig that idk what to tell you bro maybe go out to glamis
@noooooooooooooooooo240 poachers? 😆 Get real. The op and yourself are delusional. You clearly have zero clue about the area and level of conservation practiced and provided in these areas. Cope friendo. See ya on the trail. 😁
If you can't tell us where you are. I don't care.
There are thousands of lakes up in the Sierras. One of the best parts of the adventure is hopping on google earth and discovering new places. That’s what I did. Do your research and have fun with the unexpected.
That I have done for the last 50 years and will continue to do. I was just hoping your video would have some information along with watching you fish.
The giant golden trout are in Colorado not in the Sierras.
Well Golden Trout are from the sierras. And the record size golden trout isn’t from CA or CO so I really don’t know what your point is…
Clearly, you have never heard of Golden Trout Wilderness.
@@electricfil Right, The Giant Golden Trout Wilderness.
Does this lake start with a S and end with a r ? 😏
🤔No it actually doesn’t. But with over a thousand lakes up in the Sierras I’m sure a few look practically identical!
you should NOT be advancing your poles before your feet going uphill.
Hey Michael, I appreciate the advice but can you expand on that?