Fishing For Golden Trout

A beginners guide to catching golden trout

Nov 15, 2024

Golden Trout Fishing In Lakes & Streams

Golden Trout

Golden trout fishing basics for beginners and novice anglers. These unique trout exist in a small number of lakes and streams in California, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Washington, and Colorado.

Fly fishing is the primary way to catch golden trout. In rare cases, where golden trout are found in lakes, some techniques for catching brook trout can be successful. More often than not these trout are found in streams and lakes far from roadways, requiring a bit of hiking to access fishing water.

Golden trout fishing basics video.

Advice For Serious Golden Trout Fishing Enthusiasts

Study the life cycle of golden trout, their annual migrations, daily movements, and food sources available in the lake you plan to fish. Our focus here is to assist beginner and intermediate anglers. For those wishing to take the next step, there are a multitude of options for growing your knowledge of golden trout fishing.

Learn To Fly Fish. Golden trout can be caught on flies out of lakes, rivers, streams and creeks.

Time On The Water. Experience is the best teacher. Spend time locating fish and experimenting with a wide variety of lures and techniques.

Gather Information Online. Read information on your local Fish & Game Department website, including fishing reports. Review websites offered by expert golden trout anglers, fishing organizations and local fishing guides. Some highly regarded websites covering golden trout fishing include Flylords, Fly Fisherman, FlyFish Circle, and many others.

Have Fun. Fishing for golden trout can be very rewarding. Be diligent, but enjoy the process. Fishing is a life-long journey, and you can learn something new every day you spend on the lake!

Golden Trout

World record: 11 pounds, 4 ounces

Rick Seaman is a fishing enthusiast with over five decades of fishing experience, a retired bass tournament fisherman, author of numerous published articles on fishing, and co-author of the book "Bass Fishing - It's not WHAT you throw, It's WHERE you throw it".