....and dragging the other behind like toilet paper stuck to your shoe... :funnyup: :funnyup: :funnyup: I laugh at that ish now, but it wasn't quite so funny as I'm losing a sole down the Owens, leaving me with only one dragging sole behind you, which in current, causes a bunch of drag. Apparently,...

I made the mistake of buying the Korkers first generation wading boots, because the ability to switch soles was appealing. Too bad the process to switch them out wasn't designed properly and after 'stretching' the plastic railings that held the soles in place, I could not walk in sand or mud, as the...

I ventured out, but didn't know if the body of water I was fishing was part of the season opener, or whether it was year around. And the water was raging. Did a lot of scouting for a repeat venture, perhaps after the run off subsides. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/922/d5HHHT.jpg Local...

Our fragile streams don't need the extra pressure. :doh: (Although anybody with a computer and access to Google can do a bit of sleuthing to find these areas.) Furthermore, there are tons of publicly accessible documents that the DFG has made that also list these streams by name. I do understand the...

Hey DS, In order to qualify for the challenge, the Paiute's must have no less than 11 par marks, (or was it 10?) and be caught below a certain falls. The only species with DNA as close as their ancestors are below******** Falls, as you mentioned. Which is closed to fishing. (Hence the removal of th...

The Heritage Trout Challenge is not a scientific or research program. It is a social program to encourage anglers to sample the diversity of water and fish in CA. To me, a good comparison would be if one visited ethnic neighborhoods in LA. If you visited an Asian restaurant, would it be important i...

My bad for wondering why DFW pushes "heritage" fish when they themselves hybridized those same species with stocked fish.

Gonna go catch me some Coastal Rainbows on the East Fork tommorow.

A few more and I get my Certificate.

Of course, genetic testing wasn't available at that time. You may have overlooked my response where I mentioned that samples from the real KRRs were taken in the 1900s and have been preserved. Yes, DNA sampling wasn't available at the time, but DNA analysis was done from those same samples that wer...

Ya, my memory sucks, I think maybe this is where I got the idea, I wonder if anything further has happened with it besides just talk: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm?parkID=342&projectID=58192&documentID=66205 Andy Yeah, I've emailed DFW in regards to this, and much like my other ...

Weren't there some trips into the hinterlands last summer to catch "pure" KKRs for use as broodstock in the Kern River Hatchery? Andy I'd love to get some links on the documentation, because I didn't hear anything about that. And somehow, if there was a batch of KRRs that were genetically...

Great question DA. I was just thinking that the headwaters of the tribs to the Kern must have essentially pure KKRs, as there are so many impediments (impassable waterfalls) that no stockers could possibly get up that far. Then I realized that if that was so, then the non-stockers/KKRs couldn't get...

So, I'm a bit confused. I picked up Dr. Robert J. Behnke "Trout of North America" book (which comes highly recommend by the way, as Joseph Tomelleri is the illustrator) and in the section for the Kern River Rainbow, Behnke notices that the DNA taken from species today do not match DNA take...

My first time fishing in extreme weather was the same trip that made me go out and get a fly rod and reel... I made the mistake thinking that trout were like largemouth bass and would bite early in the morning (regardless of the weather), so we showed up parked at the edge of Twin Lakes at 4 am, at ...

I fished Bridgeport in 9 degrees in late October once, about 5 years ago. It was the same weekend that caused me to go out and buy a bunch of fly equipment, realizing my spinning outfit may not cut it. Yet, that fateful day is what caused this immersion into the fly game, and I'm not looking back. W...

I once wanted to carry one box with me all the time, but because I'm never near the car and I'm doing a lot of hiking, I always carry my Camelbak M.U.L.E. with me, which gives me the ability to have 100 ounces of water on me throughout the day. And because the pack is medium sized, i can carry at le...