Kern River Rainbow Trout

The Kern River rainbow trout has a high probability of disappearing as a distinct entity in the next 50-100 years if not sooner.

Kern river rainbow trout. 2021-03-10 On our way to the Owens River Valley for some fishing we decided to hit up the Kern River on the way and try to catch some dinnerliterallyFishing Kern. The Kern River Rainbow Oncorhynchus mykiss gilberti is a subspecies of the Kern River Golden Trout. The Kern river rainbow trout has a complex evolutionary history and has been the subject of much debate over its origins since it was first described in 1894 as a subspecies of rainbow trout.

KERN PERFECTION Fly angler Randal Garrett with a 21-plus inch wild rainbow caught while nymphing the upper Kern River near Johnsondale Bridge. 2021-03-09 The idea then was for state workers and volunteers to hike to a remote creek in the southern Sierra Nevada to find genetically pure Kern River rainbow trout. Today populations considered Kern River rainbow trout live in the Kern River from Durrwood Creek upstream to.

Coloration in some areas may be influenced by natural intermixing and hybridization with the other two golden trout subspecies. It was later thought to be a population of golden trout but subsequent genetics work indicates a distinct. They are most genetically similar to California Golden trout and Little Kern Golden trout than they are to present-day Coastal Rainbow trout.

This fish is thought to be an intermediate form between golden trout and rainbow trout which are thought to have gained periodic access to the basin during the Pleistocene epoch Behnke 2002. The greatest threat continues to be hybridization with coastal rainbow trout but competition and predation from invasive brown. 2021-03-26 The Kern River Fly Fishers a 52-year-old club based here in Bakersfield has been working on introducing the Kern River rainbow trout back into our local waters for decades.

Kern River rainbow trout were once widely distributed to the upper Kern River basin Tulare and Kern Counties. They also eat fish eggs and adult forms of. The State of California through its Heritage and Wild Trout Program proposes to restore the naturally indigenous Kern River rainbow trout to their original California source watersheds.

Generally resembles coastal rainbow trout but with brighter colors a slight tinge of gold and sometimes orange on the belly. KERN RIVER RAINBOW TROUT Oncorhynchus mykiss gilberti Jordan Status. Kern River rainbow trout.