eric_welch | February 26, 2011 Read This Post...
With the lake being down 68 feet all winter, the smallies have been playing hide and seek from the anglers. But with last weeks pretty days and warmer weather there starting show up. The water temperature has jumped up to 49-51 degrees, and the smallmouth bass know that the pre-spawn is near. I caught 18 [...]
Kent Klewein | February 21, 2011 Read This Post...
I had the pleasure of guiding Ronnie Hall on the Toccoa River yesterday. Ronnie Hall is the The Fish Hawk’s foremost advisor for the fly shop Destination Travel Agency. He also guided for over twenty years on the Hiawassee River and in Montana. Great guy, great fisherman, and funny as hell. We boated around thirty [...]
Kent Klewein | February 19, 2011 Read This Post...
Hello Everyone, We just wrapped up our Spring 2011 Reel Job Fishing Newsletter, click the link, and we encourage everyone to take the time to check it out. Click on the + button on the right margin after opening, to Zoom-In on the PDF document for easier reading. Future RJF Newsletters will only be sent [...]
Kent Klewein | February 18, 2011 Read This Post...
Eric Welch and I headed out this morning for a quick three hour tour on Lake Blue Ridge. We had the lake to ourselves, which rocked, and we even broke out a fly rod for a change. We boated eight bass with a mixed bag of smallmouth and spotted bass. Two of the smallmouth bass [...]
Kent Klewein | February 18, 2011 Read This Post...
Reel Job Fishing guide, Eric Welch just finished getting back from a trip to Lake Fontana, located outside of Bryson City, NC. I haven’t seen him this excited about a lake in quite a while. Apparently, it has the perfect smallmouth bass habitat with tons of rocky banks, points, and boulders. Eric said he could [...]
Kent Klewein | February 17, 2011 Read This Post...
Just finished a guided float trip on the Toccoa River with great client and friend Paul Messer. As usual, he landed yet another awesome trout on the Toccoa River. Most of the trout we landed were stockers but this one had perfect fins and pushed twenty inches. He also had another fish this size unbutton [...]
Kent Klewein | February 15, 2011 Read This Post...
Finally, I can get my hands on some super stealthy clear floating fly line for my stillwater and spring creek fishing. I’ve been waiting for a fly line company to produce a clear floating fly line for years now. I had the opportunity to cast the Airflo Ridge Clear floating fly line the other day [...]
Kent Klewein | February 14, 2011 Read This Post...
Fly casting in windy conditions challenge all of us to some extent whether your standing on the bow of a flats boat battling 25 mph headwinds or just trying to present your fly rig accurately on a trout stream on a windy day. Check out this short fly casting video for some helpful tips on [...]
