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In their native habitat, adults range from 6 to 12 inches (15 to 30 cm) long. Fish over 12 inches (30 cm) are considered large. Golden trout that have been transplanted to lakes have been recorded up to 11 pounds (5.0 kg). The golden trout should be distinguished from the similarly named golden rainbow trout, also known as the palomino trout ...
The Golden Trout Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area in ... the golden trout. Elevations range from about 680 feet (210 m) to 12,900 feet (3,900 m ...
The Little Kern golden trout was first described as Salmo Whitei in 1906 by the biologist Barton Warren Evermann in his book ...The Golden Trout of the Southern High Sierras. [5] Everman had been sent to the Kern Plateau by Theodore Roosevelt , after Roosevelt's friend Stewart Edward White had expressed concern that the brightly colored trout ...
The Little Kern River is a 24.4-mile-long (39.3 km) [2] major tributary of the upper Kern River in the Sequoia National Forest, in the southern Sierra Nevada, California.It is one of three streams, along with Volcano Creek and Golden Trout Creek, that harbor beautiful golden trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita).
The Kern River watershed is the native range of California's State Freshwater Fish, California golden trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita), which are native to the Kern River tributaries South Fork Kern River and Golden Trout Creek, [30] and the latter's tributary, Volcano Creek. [31] Two currently recognized and closely related sibling ...
The Kern River rainbow trout is a "Species of Special Concern" in the state of California due to habitat loss and hybridization with other native and non-native trout in their range. [4] The Kern River rainbow trout is one of three subspecies of O. mykiss that are all endemic to the Kern River basin, sharing the headwaters of the river with the ...
Golden Trout Creek is an approximately 9-mile (14 km) long tributary of the Kern River, flowing in northeastern Tulare County, California. The creek drains an area of the High Sierra Nevada in the Inyo National Forest .
The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia. The steelhead (sometimes called steelhead trout) is an anadromous (sea-run) form of the coastal rainbow trout (O. m. irideus) or Columbia River redband trout (O. m. gairdneri) that usually returns to freshwater to spawn after living two to three years ...