They market the Golden Rainbow trout back east as “golden trout”, but don’t be fooled. Nothing can hold a candle to our California Golden Trout, especially the pure ones in the Golden Trout Wilderness.
I spent a couple of years in North Carolina while in the service at Fort Bragg. I served in the US Army 82nd Airborne Division. On my time off, North Carolina has a great mountain spot to try some fly fishing for trout. If you love the great outdoors and the scenery of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Great Smoky Mountains then North Carolina has what you are looking for in scenery while you fly fish in mountain trout waters. It is a place of scenic views, waterfalls, small towns, and some great fly fishing.
North Carolina had rainbow trout, Browns, Brook trout (known as “specks” in NC) and of course the palomino rainbow. The golden rainbow was mostly stocked in what they called fish parks, where you pay to fish a lake or pond. Charlie is right that they get snagged more than fair hooked. They called them “Golden Trout”. Like I said, don’t be fooled!
Oh yeah Trev Dog, have to agree on they would look better in someones Koi pond! lol!