Georgia Fly Fishing Blog

Posted By Kent Klewein on November 11, 2009

I have not been able to post for the last few days due to the hurricane rolling through.  I’ve got satellite internet and it flat out won’t work when it is really overcast.  It’s the price I pay for living way up in the mountains.  Anyway, with several inches of rain the last two days nothing is fishable up here in the Blue Ridge area.  Expect everything to be wadable by Friday.  It should be a great weekend of fishing with moderate temperatures.  I hope to see some of you out on the water.

Toccoa River Delayed Harvest Report

I’ve had a chance to fish the Upper Toccoa delayed harvest trout water several times since the beginning of November when it opened.  The fishing has been really good and I encourage anglers that enjoy wading to check it out.  When compared to the Toccoa tailwater wade fishing I strongly feel its a much easier place to get into better numbers of fish.  The tailwater is fishing well, but I prefer to float it lately for my guide trips.

The delayed harvest section of the Toccoa is located above Lake Blue Ridge and begins above the Shallowford Bridge about .2 mile (Shallowford Bridge is located off of Aska Road), and continues upstream about 1 1/2 miles to Sandy Bottoms Canoe Put-In (Sandy Bottoms located off of Old Dial Road).

Most of my fish have come from mid-size streamers and woolly buggers stripping, or fishing a tandem nymph rig.  A bright attractor nymph (like a lightning bug) with a soft-hackle PT trailed behind has produced very well.  Don’t forget your eggs and san jaun worms.  They are still working very good as well.  I have not fished dry flies for them lately, but I’m sure you can pick a few up in the slower sections.

Keep it Reel,

Categories: Fly Fishing
Tags: Kent Klewein, Toccoa Delayed Harvest Report, Upper Toccoa DH