This was a bucket list fish for me, getting a healthy, large, and wild specimen in the Santa Cruz mountains. I won’t reveal the stream because it is very remote (or at least as remote as the sf peninsula gets) and obviously these fish are quite rare nowadays in the Bay Area . Required a 9 miles hike through the mountains and some bushwhacking but totally worth it! Pretty awesome to see the unique stream specific coloration on this fish (I assume it’s a spawning male), a lot tanner than a stocked fish. Hope you guys get as much of a kick out of this as I did!
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