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Carolyn Emery has an outstanding day landing trophy trout at NCF.

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2 Alternatives for Attaching Your Split-Shot

If you attach your split shot too tight on your tippet it can weaken its strength significantly. Try using these two alternatives for attaching your split-shot to your nymph rig.

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With all the rain lately, I’ve felt like a wet dog on the water. I cannot remember a winter where we had so much rain. A few trips have been cancelled because of it but I’m actually very thankful because it’s really going to help out our water table in the long run. If we continue to get rain through the spring we could sustain average or better water levels through summer. Wouldn’t that be a treat, heck yeah.

Fishing has been good particularly at Noontootla Creek Farms. The wild rainbows are starting to get their spawning colors and all the trout are fighting like their trying to win a UFC championship fight. Moreover, air temperatures have been in the mid 50s during the afternoon. It’s made for some really enjoyable fishing and it looks like it’s going to stay that way. Get up here and do some fly fishing. If you’re looking for guided fishing trip please give us a call. We’ve got you covered whether you want to bass fish on the lake or fly fish trout on public or private water.

I feel like the TVA has been sticking it to us lately. Just like the crazy rain situation this winter, I’ve also never seen such a inconsistent generation schedule. It’s been all over the place the last two months making it very difficult to pull off float trips. The TVA for some reason has been preferring to generate during the daylight morning hours, cutting it off around 10 or 12 am. That leaves us with a very small window and small area of water we can fish, and it’s not ideal. When we have been able to get on the river we’ve had really good days followed by so so days. On a positive note there’s been pretty good Blue Winged Olive, Midge, and Caddis hatches during mid day especially. I’m hoping this is a sign our hatches will be better this year, providing us better dry fly fishing. February and March are really good months to be on the Toccoa River. Give us a call if you want to set up a guided float trip.

Eric Welch will be reporting on the bass fishing later this week for all you bass anglers.

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