Articulated Leech

| November 14, 2008 Read This Post...

I said last week I would post this articulated streamer pattern I tied up.  Here it is, used as usual.  It has proven itself worthy for trout and bass while fly fishing in Georgia. Hook: Gamakatsu SC15 Size 1 Thread: Uni-Thread Black 6/0 Body: White Zonker Strip Leg: Sili Legs – Shad and Krystal Flash [...]

Louis Cahill Photo Essay Vol. 2

| November 14, 2008 Read This Post...

Photo By:  Louis Cahill

Back by popular demand, we have the latest intallment of Louis Cahill photography.  Louis, Joel Dickey, and I headed up to North Carolina and spent a day out on the water looking for brown trout running up the river.  Louis was in the zone with the camera, and we even managed to land a trophy [...]

Lake Burton Hatchery Closing

| November 13, 2008 Read This Post...

We’re asking everyone to take a few minutes out of their day and email our state representatives to stop the closing of the Lake Burton Fish Hatchery.  The closing is not for sure yet, but they have said they are planning on eliminating brown trout all together and potentially reducing the rainbow trout output by [...]

Toccoa Del Fuego!

| November 12, 2008 Read This Post...

25.5" Toccoa River Brown

Last week fly fishing on the Toccoa River my client landed this trophy brown trout of a lifetime.  Bo said, he’s fly fished all over the world and this is his biggest brown trout to date.  When is the southeast going to get some recognition for trout fishing? The exciting fight lasted over twenty minutes.  [...]

North Georgia Trout Fishing

| November 8, 2008 Read This Post...

Toccoa River Rainbow Trout

North Georgia trout fishing on the Toccoa River is turning on!  Here’s the first, of two trout measuring well over twenty inches landed this week on the Toccoa River.  The second, a 25.5″ brown trout, will be posted later this week.  This immaculate rainbow had fantastic colors and full burgandy fins.  It was seduced by [...]

Klewein’s Spent Cicada

| November 7, 2008 Read This Post...

Klewein

Yes, I know the Cicada’s have been gone for over four months now.  I just think this is a cool pattern I came up with.  The Cicada’s pretty much missed Georgia altogether this year so I didn’t get to try it on my home waters.  However, I did make a trip with my good friend [...]

Milo Creek Carvings

| November 6, 2008 Read This Post...

Feeding Trout in the Reeds

I always like to take the time to showcase talented fly fishing artists who turn our shared hobbies into great works of art.  Tom M. Dean of Milo Creek Carvings takes his life long passion of fly fishing, and carves masterpieces out of exotic pieces of wood. “I love native trout and the surroundings where [...]

Lake Blue Ridge Bass Fishing

| November 6, 2008 Read This Post...

Lake Blue Ridge Smallmouth Bass

Lake Blue Ridge bass fishing is turning on with the smallmouth, largemouth, and spotted bass moving up shallow.  They’re starting to stage up at the mouths of the creeks to ambush the baitfish moving in.  Here’s my boy’s first smallmouth bass we caught a few days ago on the lake.  The smallmouth bass put up [...]