A good day on the Chattooga River

WFR · Jun 3, 2009

It was hot today so I left the waders in the truck (along with the net!) and enjoyed the cool water of the Chattooga River.
Father-in-law and I caught around 40 +/- and missed 2 very fat rainbows (left the net in the truck). The one I lost near the end of the day had to be 16-17". Could barely get my hand around him and couldn't get him on the stringer.
We caught rainbow, brown and brook trout.
Kept a nice mess and heading back again tomorrow.
Here's a few pictures.
Father-in-law with stringer of 11 that we kept between the two of us.

Brookie

Colorful brown on top of stringer.

Ready for dinner tomorrow night!

mud · Jun 3, 2009

Now that looks like some fun. Fishing for trout

wmrawls · Jun 3, 2009

Are you using Fly Rods? What fly if so? I have got to make some time to get up to the NC streams and wet a line.

cmw0081 · Jun 3, 2009

I'm jealous

ERE99 · Jun 3, 2009

Man, I haven`t been to the Chattooga since college. I used to love to raft and fish that river.

Nice fish!!

Slacker · Jun 3, 2009

Beautiful brookie! Is the meat pink colored like Brookies from New England?
Brook trout, eggs, toast and strong coffee is one of my favorite meals....

Fury · Jun 3, 2009

I need to get off my duff and go trout fishing.... That is a very nice stringer of trout, the browns especially.

majordog · Jun 3, 2009

I'm taking my daughter up there next week for a couple days of backpacking and trout fishing......hope we have some of your good fortune!!!

dirtydirtysouf · Jun 3, 2009

WFR said:
Kept a nice mess and heading back again tomorrow.
Here's a few pictures.
Father-in-law with stringer of 11 that we kept between the two of us.

Brookie

Colorful brown on top of stringer.

Ready for dinner tomorrow night!

so what type of gun did you use?

WFR · Jun 4, 2009

wmrawls said:
Are you using Fly Rods? What fly if so? I have got to make some time to get up to the NC streams and wet a line.

No fly rods.
My fly fishing experience is minimal.
I have a 8' 4# St Croix but today we were using ultralight 5'-6' rods with 4# test line and everything from nightcrawlers, redworms, powerbait, etc.
I lost another nice one right at the end of the day. Had him on the line for nearly 5 minutes and he shook the hook about 15ft away.

WFR · Jun 4, 2009

dirtydirtysouf said:
so what type of gun did you use?

S&W 640-1 .357 mag for father-in-law.
I normally carry either a S&W 66 2.5" or a Glock of some sorts.
If I would have only had a .22 revolver with CB shorts yesterday I could have landed that beast that I couldn't get in with out the net! LOL.

TNHillbilly · Jun 4, 2009

HMMM!!! Yummy I need to find some places round Pfafftown to go, new and all to the area.

wmrawls · Jun 4, 2009

I need to make some time to get up that way and do some research on where to fish. Seems like all my fun time is dictated by the wife and grand kids and Paw Paw needs time away from everyone else.

WFR · Jun 4, 2009

We went back yesterday and tried a new spot that we had to hike into.
Saw some nice waterfalls (Pig Pen or Lick Log falls?).
We caught about 18 between the two of us.
Now where is my Calamine lotion for the poison ivy I found?

First fish of the day right where the waterfall dumps into the river wasn't even a trout but a hard-fighting bream.

WFR · Jun 4, 2009

And the "Rest of the Story".
Some with onions and some without.
Butter, season salt and Old Bay seasoning.

wmrawls · Jun 4, 2009

Brim on a light fly rod are a lot of fun. They fight like a big ol large mouth bass. Are there any Small Mouth on that water? I know there are some in the New River.

rantingredneck · Jun 4, 2009

I like catching bream. As wmrawls said, they fight like a bigger fish.

I am looking forward to taking the kids back to Jordan on Saturday. My wife and I are heading up to the mountains in a couple of weeks to celebrate 10 years of her putting up with my crap.

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Might take a fishing pole along on our hike along the Boone Fork Trail. Of course in her mind that would be more of my crap for her to put up with

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A good day on the Chattooga River

WFR

mud

wmrawls

cmw0081

ERE99

Slacker

Fury

majordog

dirtydirtysouf

WFR

WFR

TNHillbilly

wmrawls

WFR

WFR

wmrawls

rantingredneck

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