Trout from this week

Nice pics man. I have my own little fly fishing guide service, if anyone is interested. The only thing I dont provide is waders. Its nothing big and serious like the other guys, I just take clients out and have fun. I do backpacking/flyfishing combo trips as well as half/full day trips. PM me if you want to go out some weekend.
 
mbalbritton said:
ok, time for my schooling. So I've been trout fishing for years and considered myself well versed in the various trout of the South east. I've caught several Brookies, browns, bows, & hybrid around Georgia and North Carolina.

I've done some googling to try and answer this, but besides being born in the wild vs hatchery, what's the difference in a Native vs hatchery Brookie?
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The main difference is size, and coloring. Wild trout ALWAYS have much richer and deeper coloring that hetchery fish just cant produce. A lot of hold-over hatchery fish start to appear wild as they spend more time in the stream. It is easy to spot the difference between a wild fish, and a stocker because they have "dark black" circle patches of pygment under their skin. I cant post pics if you would like. Hope this helps.
 
SkyHiK5 said:
There is a huge difference between a native brookie and a stock brookie.
NC stocks ~45% brookies...
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That is very true, the bigest brook I ever caught was 16" in a lake in Cali at about 8500'
Aslo caught a nice 10' golden trout same day
 
More from today... caught 4 overall.

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I haven't fly fished since I moved from out west. I might have to take it up again. Nice fish, those would wind up breaded in corn meal an in my frying pan.
 
Rob said:
I haven't fly fished since I moved from out west. I might have to take it up again. Nice fish, those would wind up breaded in corn meal an in my frying pan.
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You don't even need fly gear. I've caught 100% of my trout off of rooster tails using light spinning tackle.
 
Rob said:
I haven't fly fished since I moved from out west. I might have to take it up again. Nice fish, those would wind up breaded in corn meal an in my frying pan.
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If all works out I will be heading up next weekend to camp and fish. Got a cool place to camp on the river and fish all day...
 
according to BRUISERS slide show, that trout is doomed to certain death because you put a mean nasty hook in its mouth :lol:


i love it that two of my hobbies are on completely ends of the spectrum and the heads of both hate the other. :lol:
 
Caught 17 friday on a DH stream including a 19" rainbow. Hooked into a daddy that broke 6lb spiderwire. 1st fish over 20" that I have lost in almost 2 years. Stream started to clear about 2pm, they were on fire after that. Saturday was rough, caught 11 on Three Top but it wasnt stocked like normal. I have caught my limit in less than 10 minutes multiple times on that stream. Should have went back to my DH honey hole on sat rather than deal with the masses in waders crashing through the pools.
 
Franklin said:
Caught 17 friday on a DH stream including a 19" rainbow. Hooked into a daddy that broke 6lb spiderwire. 1st fish over 20" that I have lost in almost 2 years. Stream started to clear about 2pm, they were on fire after that. Saturday was rough, caught 11 on Three Top but it wasnt stocked like normal. I have caught my limit in less than 10 minutes multiple times on that stream. Should have went back to my DH honey hole on sat rather than deal with the masses in waders crashing through the pools.
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I'm headed up there Saturday morning. Any good ideas where to go? I'm riding with father, but any new places would be great :D
 
When you say "there"... if you mean Boone, try any of the spots on the watauga off of old shulls mill rd on 105. Its where all mine came from.
 
rockcity said:
I'm headed up there Saturday morning. Any good ideas where to go? I'm riding with father, but any new places would be great :D
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You have a PM brotha. If you hook my monster, release her quickly so I can get her mounted when I cathch her in June!:flipoff2:
 
Franklin said:
You have a PM brotha. If you hook my monster, release her quickly so I can get her mounted when I cathch her in June!:flipoff2:
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No worries there, I usually spend at least 50% of my time getting the flies out of the trees. The other 50% is divided between draining my waders of water :D , eating, scoping out imaginary 4x4 trails :shaking:, and only about 5% of actual fishing.


So, the fish are typically fairly safe with me around :lol:
 
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