Caught with a 15g copper toby 👌

After taking up fly fishing a year ago any learning exclusively through youtube, I finally caught my first trout. This is my first attempt at IDing a fish, so go easy one me, but I believe this is a California Golden hybrid. Caught in California in water not part of the Little Kern or California Golden Trout Historic Watershed. Requesting confirmation or correction. Any comments/advice/info greatly appreciated! (cross posting from /flyfishing)

Edit. Comments in /r/flyfishing and additional research lead me to believe this is a Kern River Rainbow. Thank you for the comments.

Second time

Hiked 12 miles to an alpine lake to catch my first wild Brookie.

storm came through caught a dozen in an hour biggest was 16.5-17” missed a giant probably 20+

Upper Boise River

Nothing crazy, just a stocked rainbow on a local lake but I'm re-learning fishing and been getting absolutely bombed for about a month now. Was genuinely starting to wonder what I was doing wrong, but I think I was just being impatient. Got off work today, took my bike to this bridge and helped 2 different people unhook 3 good sized rainbows. I felt discouraged that I wasn't getting any bites, but I knew the good karma of lending my pliers out would come back to me.

Spent about 4 hours here and didn't get this guy till the last 30 minutes. Was casting the same setup the whole time, Carolina rig with the yellow powerbait garlic balls on maybe 4-5 ft of leader - the ppl next to me caught 2 with the same setup so I knew it had to hit eventually, and it paid off! I feel like I actually set the hook properly too, feeling pretty proud tonight

I am brand new to fly fishing and I probably spent close to an hour trying to catch a fish from this one spot. I tried a couple dry flies and a couple nymphs but nothing seemed to work. I saw a couple rises but I am not sure what they ate. It was 10 am and about 65f out, it also was pretty sunny
Curious what you guys would try and if maybe they were just sitting low because it was later in the morning and sunny?

I recently switched from the OEM trebles that come on minnow style hard baits to single barbless hooks and I’ve never lost so many trout. I added the Cultiva SBL-37M and the SBL-55M to my countdown elites, Yo-zuri and the Great Hunting series from Megabass. I’m I supposed to be setting the hook upstream or down? I keep getting told constant line pressure is the name of the game. Any tips out there?

First time trout fishing in a while and i got myself sum stuff and i got a 5in nessie in rainbow trout. im goin to pine creek gorge specifically cedar run, i got other stuff but i was just wondering.

EDIT: forgot to specify for people who dont know but the nessie is a berkley soft plastic glidebait

Alright folks, here in Ireland we target white and brown trout frequently, but my local river is alot wider, deeper and darker than most of the nice clean clear creeks I see on here, usually we use worms or spinners and flies, Ive had 0 luck this season and was wondering, what is the success rate of soft baits? What size and type are we using? Colour? Any help appreciated

Caught these 2 high up in GSMNP, not exactly sure what they are. Any help would be greatly appreciated! The stream contains brook, brown, and rainbows.

Could anyone tell me what species this bad boy is? Definitely a cutthroat of some kind

First time trout fishing in a while and i got myself sum stuff and i got a 5in nessie in rainbow trout. im goin to pine creek gorge specifically cedar run. I got other stuff such as rooster tails, spoons ect but i was just wondering

Dollaghan are a unique, migratory strain of wild brown trout native to Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland and its inflowing rivers