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Caught my first goldens deep in the backcountry of the range. We found lakes that also had decent cutthroat ranging between 12-17 inches in size and renegades floating on top or barely under the surface worked great during the early morning and late afternoon/evening. The goldens on the other hand, where more difficult to catch in the lakes. The smaller goldens would hide in the rocks near the shore and would come out for chironomids, scuds or micro leeches occasionally while the big ones seemed to only come out in the late evening and would take a wide range of dries off the top. We got a couple larger ones on large orange scuds fished 8-10 feet under an indicator during the day but most action was during the last 1-2 hours at dusk know as the “golden hour”. Smaller goldens were abundant in streams that connected the “golden” lakes and they readily rose to a dry any hour of the day. If you want goldens, they seem to be located in the hardest to reach corners of the range where trails vanish and boulder hopping is a common mode of travel between lakes. They are stocked intentionally in these reaches to prevent from hybridizing with cutts and bows who are all spring spawners. Definitely recommend using the alltrails app or the Onx Hunt app for tracking your location via GPS with maps that can be downloaded ahead of time. A solid pair of goretex boots with good ankle support is also a necessity.