Watauga Winter Fishing Clip

| February 26, 2010 Read This Post...

Got a trip today, and I’m up early tying up flies to ensure I can afford to leave a handful of the hot pattern in the trees and still have enough to get through the day.  I’ll post some pictures after the trip if we bring some nice ones to the net. For now check [...]

Tying the Morrish Mouse

| February 24, 2010 Read This Post...

With spring just around the corner I’m looking forward to start fishing my favorite fly pattern for big trophy trout, the mouse pattern.  During the warmer months when I know there are big fish in the river or stream, you’ll often see me rig up a stiff butt 2x leader and tie one of my [...]

Rockin Day at NCF

| February 23, 2010 Read This Post...

Just finished guiding Charles and Yoon Ho Choi from the northeast this past week for a day and a half at Noontootla Creek Farms.  We had a great time and hooked up with a ton of trout while we were out there. Both Charles and Yoon Ho did a great job working as a team [...]

Phat Bellies Full of Caddis

| February 22, 2010 Read This Post...

The black stoneflies and black caddis have been coming off for quite a while now on the Toccoa River, and the trout’s stomachs are plump and fat from eating the bugs. Floating the river today we witnessed a significant black caddis hatch. From the lack of rising fish, it was very evident that the trout [...]

Fish Hard, Don’t Fall Short

| February 22, 2010 Read This Post...

If you fish hard and don’t fall short of doing so consistently, your going to get rewarded even when the fishing conditions are tough. Reel Job Fishing guide, Eric Welch, does this every day he’s on the water bass fishing.  It doesn’t matter if it’s raining, snowing, really slow fishing, or temperatures in the teens, [...]

It’s all about the Glass

| February 18, 2010 Read This Post...

The last couple years I’ve really incorporated glass beads into many of my fly patterns, especially my nymphs.  Myself, including many others, shy away from gold beaded nymphs because we feel in some cases the trout will refuse them from bad memories of hooks in the lips.  Because of this we’ve incorporated glass beads into [...]

Don’t Leave Home W/O Them.

| February 16, 2010 Read This Post...

For anglers that have been in the sport for a while this is a lesson that was probably learned long ago, but for beginners, its a quick tip you should take note of.  Don’t leave home without a nice selection of soft-hackles nymphs. The thing about soft-hackles is they due a great job of imitating [...]

Another Snow Day

| February 13, 2010 Read This Post...

This year has been crazy with the amount of snow we’ve been getting. There’s more is in the forecast this coming week, and I have to say I’m really ready for spring to get here. However, conditions have been much worse for my friends up north. They’ve had to deal with real cabin fever from [...]