The days of freely fishing during the week are almost a distant memory, and now my window has grown much smaller. I try to make it out every Sunday but that often times doesnt satisfy my fishing appetite. I have on a couple of occasions gone into work early to get, if lucky, a couple hours of fishing in before dark on a weekday. My efforts are mostly focused on the weekends though. Me and David made it out a couple times to the local waters. The pics below are from a number of different streams in the area. The trees have come alive and Spring in southeastern Tennessee is in full bloom. Although it might not match the famous color schemes of fall, the Spring brings its own elements of beauty and pleasure. The fishing has been heating up, though we havent come close to some of those days last year were we seemed to be realing in near 70 fish on the Hiwassee. The Hiwassee has been spilling water over the Dam and increased flows have proven both beneficial and detremental to fishing. They started spilling too much water to wade the last couple weeks, but before that the high water provided some needed protection for a good chance at some larger fish. I was able to land the best brown I have ever caught one evening just before sunset. I was fishing a pretty deep run, with a caddis and a dropper, when I had a monster hit from the brown below. I thought numerous times he was going to break me off, but fortunately I was able to land him. My arm was exhausted from the fight, but it was well worth the shoulder workout. Some of the other pics are from some nice healthy wild fish in the area. The temps are continuing to heat up, and the hatches have been great. We are looking forward to more great fishing in the days to come...til next time
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Upstream on the Bald River
A cascade on the North River
Rainbow in the net
Fishing a nice run on the North
Fish caught at the place above
Little Brown natched the Elk Hair Caddis
Big Bend, Hiwassee was still spilling at this time
Rainbow got fooled
Fat Brown nailed the caddis off the top. Brought him in just before sunset
that is a solid brown; wild? it appears so
ReplyDeleteIt was a good fish. I caught it at the Hiwassee so it was likely stocked at some point, but they usually stock browns as little 5 inch fingerlings it seems like. There is a chance it could have been wild though, the colors were awesome..
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