Such a great day!
More cold water, higher elevation
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Crappieaddict
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Awesome! That's my kind of fun! Smokies?
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
No sir. "Somewhere" in the Nantahala national forest.
Crappieaddict
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Nice! I guess Brookies abound there as well. I love catching them, because you usually have to go a ways up and leave the roadside Orvis crowd behind.
7mm08
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……and Brook Trout are really dumb! The blondes of the trout ( char ) world!
Crappieaddict
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True dat! I often use a Green Weenie!
Buzzard Breath
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Awesome. That's a nice brookie.
That is a good one! I love throwing a dry fly in a plunge pool and watch them run under it and trying to make up their mind then bam!
bigtex
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That place looks familiar. If it's where I think it is there are some "slick rocks" in that stretch.
very nice. i used to dream of fly fishing and fishing there. i used to pull out maps and trace some of the creeks that dump into fontana lake and wonder what it would be like. i did learn how fly cast warm water fish.
lol, if i tried that now id need life flight to get me out.
thanks for your posts.
lol, if i tried that now id need life flight to get me out.
thanks for your posts.
Some of the best wild stream fishing including Brookies are well outside of the park. Most of my fishing is done in South Cherokee and most of the time, I have literally miles of streams all to myself because most people "assume" you HAVE to go to the park to catch wild trout. I'm glad they have that mindset!
Naw, it ain't Slickrock. Last couple of times I fished that stream it appeared it never recovered from the big drought several years ago. Unfortunate because there used be some really nice Browns in there!
Beautiful!!
moondawg
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Nice!
bigtex
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I used to fish Slickrock many years ago and yes there were some good fish in it. I always fished it coming in from the NC side. Would put my canoe in on Calderwood and paddle down to where Slickrock came out and hike in that way. I don't think I ever saw another person. Did see some bears though lol.
Beautiful country!!
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