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It’s very likely while panning a stream and you’re coming up with #8 birdshot and no trace of color you aren’t going to find any amount of gold. We have one of the most marvelous native trout streams here in the Kern River Valley; Bull Run Creek. The largest trout I’ve pulled out of this pristine, mountain stream weighed five-pounds, but the biggest I hooked and lost raised a rooster tail nearly two-feet high with my line sawing through the water as it made its run through one of the deeper pools and dislodged the hook before I could lessen the drag on my reel. In 1969 I filed on an old lode silver mine up the stream, not with the intention of working it but to try to keep it from being trashed while also keeping the trail open for forestry and other avid fishermen like me. I had first learned of the mine and the stream from an old fellow that came by our cabin one day in 1949. When he discovered my interest in fishing, he drew a rough map of how to get...
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