![]() And, it turned out to be the place I had been looking for from the beginning. After hours of digging, I had a place to go. I checked blogs, stocking reports, books, and anything else I could get my hands on to try to pinpoint a place to go. This kind of adventure sounded more interesting.Īfter trying unsuccessfully to get the location of these golden trout, I decided to scour everything I could to try to find backcountry goldens the way this group had done. A group of guys had found a small (I mean very small) pocket of reproducing goldens that had been stocked in the 70s and 80s high in the backcountry of Colorado. ![]() There were lots of suggestions here and there of places that occasionally get a load of stocked golden trout, but none seemed that reliable or even that interesting in the first place.Įventually, I stumbled across an article that piqued my interest. That night when I got home, I started digging around online to see if there were any mentions of golden trout in Colorado. But, that simple question led me down a rabbit hole that ended up being one of the most grueling and rewarding trips of my life, almost exactly a year later. The answer was no, and I had never really put much more thought into it than that. ![]() Last summer, while my friend Ali and I were fishing for tiger trout, she asked me a seemingly insignificant question: "have you ever caught a golden trout?" ![]()
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