Danl wrote

I think I know those streamlets. Lots of fun and, as you said, no people.
In
the summer, I tend to just drive right by the lower section of the upper
Kern and target the areas from about the Forks of the Kern up both the
main
stem and the Little Kern. Lots of water and very few folks.

About 10 years ago, a buddy and I hiked the Little Kern up from the Forks
looking for the "waterfall". A rough trek. No trail. 7 tricky fords
(with packs). And lots of little bows and hybrid goldens. We had heard
that above the "waterfall" only native goldens abounded. About 3 miles in
we finally came to an impassible (wall to wall) deep pool that required a
swim, so we gave up. Never did find that fall, and it doesn't show up on
the topos as a fall (probably a long cascade that only appears as a bunch
of scrunched isobars)

I'm still kind of curious if that natural barrier exists. However, I have
a naturalist friend that more recently hiked in to the Little Kern (to the
"bridge") from the Western Divide highway access (well above the rumored
fall) and they were catching bows. So it sounds like the Rotenone program
they tried up there to eradicate all but native goldens didn't succeed.

Two weeks ago, the San Diego Fly Fishers had a speaker, Steve Beck, who
talked about fishing the main Kern fork in Sequoia National forest. The
claim was spectacular fishing but it's many miles hike in.