Re: N.C. mountain non clave

Wayne Harrison wrote:

"Jeff Miller" <jlm3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote


rained lightly for 2 days, but the streams never lost clarity.


wow. you could'a busted my ass on a bet about that! sorry i couldn't make it. i got screwed by this bitchy case manager from the sixth circuit, who refused to give me an extention on the due date for my brief in a case i tried last year in the eastern district of tennessee.


 fished all the usual spots...but, didn't make it to slickrock.

    how'd you do?

yfitp
wayno



all the streams were extremely low during our first week there...fished buffalo, squally, snowbird, and santeetlah the first week, with one day devoted to boatriding around on lake santeetlah. caught lots of fish...typical size, no bigguns... except for several of andy jordan's huge pets behind his cabin on snowbird. he has some that approach 30 inches and are very healthy. big shoulders and huge girth like western trout. though zoo fish, they fought hard and were fun because i could show rachel a bit of what we do when fishing for trout. got a picture of one, posted on abpf. it took a stimulator, fought like mad and ran all over the stream, leaped 3-4 times, all witnessed by Rachel - her first observation of a caught trout - from cast, drift, hook-up, fight, landing, and release.

rained 2 days during first week...very light. when we drove to durham on saturday for the stones concert, sun was bright over fontana and we drove into heavy rain in g-boro. but only a sprinkle of rain in durham during the concert.

despite the rains, snowbird never dirtied up. the rains did raise the water level a bit. fishing stayed steady. except for the trip with danl and bob patton over to hazel on tuesday of the second week, i spent a lot of time fishing the lower stretches of snowbird in my quest to fish and learn a bit about all of its miles. probably only got about a mile above the junction, but saw a lot of new water and figured out some of the stretches by entry and exit points. my hope/plan is to close all the gaps i've not yet fished above the junction. historically, i've spent most of my time in stretches from sassafrass up. found lots of nice water below sassafrass on this trip. raised a couple of good-sized fish out of deep water, but they just looked at the fly and never bit.

hazel was uncrowded. no one in the lower campground and we never saw another fisherman until our walk out. we fished above the second bridge and a few of the stretches below. caught lots of rainbows 9-11", and many twisters as well. all on dries. no big fish this trip, but it's always fun to be over there. on the way out, we chatted briefly with two guys that came in at some point after we did. the only other fishermen we saw over there. they were fishing just above the spanish house...one looked to be well into his seventies. i like seeing that. <g>

on our way back from hazel, we fished the lake for an hour or two, tossing wooly buggers. i saw one smallmouth that was easily over 20 inches, but we caught only one along with more than a dozen bluegills. there are some big bluegills in fontana...very surprising to me.

jeff
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