I had always planned on someday visiting the Little Kern River and Kern River, however my ideas involved backpacking gear and time that I didn't have. I recently took the plunge (down my wallet) and finally accumulated my first set of backpacking gear. I no longer had an excuse not to explore the area…
Eagle Lake sits at an elevation of 5,098ft and is the second largest natural body of water in California — a remnant of the last ice age known for its unusually high pH and alkalinity, and home to the amazing heritage trout named after it, the Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout…
The last species that I needed to complete my heritage trout challenge was a Goose Lake Redband Trout. These trout are endemic to the Goose Lake watershed, a body of water that has had quite an interesting history — a large, shallow, turbid alkaline lake that shares both the California and Oregon border…