Georgia Fly Fishing Blog

Posted By Kent Klewein on June 9, 2011

It’s official, all the days guiding has my farmers tan in full force. Some how I’ve even managed to keep myself from getting poison ivy this season. Of course a lot of that is do to me keeping my skin unexposed by sweating my tail off in my waders and a long sleeve shirt everyday with temperatures in the upper 80s and 90s.  Thank goodness for Technu scrub available at your local Walmart.

I’ve been spending a lot of my time guiding at Noontootla Creek Farms the last couple weeks. Fishing has been pretty consistent and we’ve been landing some really nice trout. Fly pattern choice has been crucial to getting consistent bites. All the days I’ve spent on the water has kept me dialed in. Just about every client has had the opportunity to land a true giant during our trips. And we’ve had many on, but quite often tippets were broken due to hands on the fly line or not letting go of the reel handle during screaming runs. That’s cool though, it’s all part of learning how to fight big trout. As we move into summer the fishing will continue to improve as the rainbows and browns key in on the terrestrial bite. This is by far my favorite time to guide at Noontootla Creek Farms. I never get tired of seeing bucket mouths sucking in dry flies and the majestic slow motion rise.

The Toccoa River fishing is a little off due to the TVA dam repair project running behind schedule. Don’t get me wrong we’re catching pretty good numbers of fish with the occasional 20+” trout, but I think the abnormally warm water due to sluicing instead of generating from the bottom of the lake has the lower sections of the river particularly, slower than normal. The dry fly fishing has been only really good in the early morning and late in the evening. I’m really hoping once they start generating (this week hopefully) it will flush the silt out, drop the water temperature, and the bugs will start coming off in good numbers. Another promising factor for the Toccoa River is the Cicada hatch that could begin any day now. No one knows for sure if they will hatch or not, but there’s a very good chance since they’ve been spotted north and west of us. Seven years ago they hatched the second week in June. If they show up fishing will be epic.

I’ll be fishing on the Chattahoochee River tomorrow for stripers on the fly and then guiding Friday and Sunday out at Noontootla Creek Farms. I promise to muster up the energy to give you another fishing report after my trips. If you’ve fished with us lately and you’ve been happy with our guide service, please leave us your testimonial as a comment for this post.

Keep it Reel,

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Tags: GA fly fishing guide, ga trout fishing guide, Kent Klewein, Noontootla Creek Farms, North Georgia Fly Fishing Guide, Reel Job Fishing, Toccoa River