Finally Some Fishing

So what seems like forever I finally got a break from school and was able to go to the watauga for a few hours after my final. The weather here lately has been rainy but really not that bad and I was able to wade wet which really wasnt that bad but like my dad always says once you cant feel your legs it really isnt that bad. I started off fishing at my fiance family's camper with a pheasant tail and caught a rainbow at my little honey hole. This little guy was full of energy jumping a good foot or two out of the water probably 4 or 5 times.

Ok a little side note this little honey hole always seems to impress me at first glance it would look to shallow to fish but has a couple of 1-2 foot runs in it that always hold some fish and actually produced a TN grand slam last if you would call it that of a rainbow, brown, and brook trout. My guess is that TWRA must have stocked some brook trout because that is the only one I have ever caught on the watauga and it was looking rough could def tell it lived in a concrete tank most of it's life. So back to fishing after that I caught a small brown trout and had a couple of chasers on my downstream swing but never could get them to take it. After fishing that area I moved on to a deeper part of the river so I switched over to a weighted black/olive wooly bugger and only had one taker on it but didnt notice I had got a bite till I went to cast so I didnt get a good hook set and this one came off. So after piddling around a bit just enjoying my time away from school I figured I would try some dry fly fishing even though I wasnt really seeing fish rising just wanted to give it a try since the majority of my fishing is either wooly buggers or nymphs. Which my dry fly fishing was not successful I spent more time tangled up in the grass on my back cast then actually fishing so by this point just desided to go back upstream away from the grassy bank and go back to fishing a brown wooly bugger with a pheastant tail off of it. Which I did catch a descent size trout on the pt but it broke off of the wooly bugger so I lost it. Which I didnt feel like tying another one on so just stayed with the wb and got my best fish in awhile fishing it right over a ledge in the main current. Which my reel did great was able to fight the fish and get it over to the bank. I have 14" marked on my rod and from my best guess it was about and 1.5 " past it. So after that I figured it was a good stopping point and called it a day. So in all it was great day and if I can get over this cold I have picked up I will def be on the water again for wed might go and try one of my little wild trout streams I like to fish and then prob will hit up the Hiwassee this weekend.

Almost there...

Well school is almost over only a few more days and I will finally be free to do some fishing but I did manage to go for a couple of hours on 4/24 it wasnt a bad day the fish were biting but my down and across techinque needs some work was not getting good hook sets and had 6 fish come off but did manage one nice rainbow and of course in the hurry of trying to go fishing I forgot my camera which stunk because it was a beautiful day to take some pictures....Also wanted to put this up Hiwassee.net link this is a great site if you fish the southeast part of TN it is where I first found out about fly fishing by going to their TU chapter's fly fishing school on the Hiwassee.

Only a couple more weeks....

School work has been getting the best of me here lately with all my free time spent working on group projects but the light is at the end of the tunnel only 2 more weeks of school left and I will be out with plenty of fishing time. So my coming soon report will have to be put off again was not able to get out due to school work but if I get some stuff done I might be able to go this friday and give my new reel a test.

Coming Soon!

Soon to come a review of my new reel I picked up from Mahoney's and I am hoping to do a little fishing with some friends on the Watauga this saturday which if the weather goes the way they are saying it should be a beautiful day on saturday but here lately I have been looking foward to those ugly cloudy days of cool rainy weather because of the good fishing it has brought too and also less people out on the river too but this weekend will well be waited for the last week has been extremly busy working on 3 group projects for school so I will def be looking foward to this saturday. Also a little side note this past sunday was on the river eating at my fiance camper on the river and their was surprisingly a pretty descent stonefly hatch going on which is the first time I have seen this on the watauga usually see it on some of the smaller trout streams I fish. This also reminds me I am taking a general entamology class this fall and am actually looking foward to my bug collection and hopefully collecting alot of bugs that hatch in the local streams of E. Tn for my project.

Watauga 4/11

Had a couple hours to fish this morning which I really dont like fishing when I feel like I have to rush through it because I have to be somewhere at a certain time but I had to take a break from all the school work I have done this week so an old roommate of mine and I got to the watauga early that morning just to find high muddy water in Elizabethton we figured it was prob from Doe river so we headed up above the Doe and the water was alittle bit better but still muddy. So after fishing two hours he had caught two little ones and I had caught one brown trout and had one come off. Fishing was really slow and from talking with others fishing too they were having the same success but hopefully tomorrow it will be better and if I can find a break from working on a school project may hit the water for an hour or two before church.

Hampton Creek Cove

This fishing trip took place last summer sometime cant really remember when. My fiance and I decided to do some hiking/picnic after church in Roan Mountain, TN so we decided to try out the Hampton Creek Cove area and it turned out to be a beautiful day for hiking. (of course knowing this was also wild trout stream I brought along my fly rod.) The parking area starts you off in some farm land and the stream is relatively small at this point but offers some beautiful views of the surrounding mountains. As we moved about a mile past the parking area we came to man made waterfall to stop rainbows from moving up into the brook trout area of the stream which at this spot I saw several little 6-7" trout in a pool but just didnt feel like trying to catch them so we just sat and watched them for awhile. So after that we just hiked the trail back and descided to stop off at Roan Mountain State Park where finally after looking at so much trout water I desided to try out one spot and managed to catch a little rainbow. So after that desided to put up the fly rod since it was our day to do something together and not a fishing day for me but the upper part of Doe River nice little trout stream and maybe one day I will make my way back up there and give it another try.

Watauga 4/3/09

Well this is my first go at blogging...was required that we make a blogging site in a class at school so I figured why not do one about fishing. So the last time I went fishing was on 4/3 and couldnt wait to go after class. I had picked up some olive/black wooly boogers and just couldnt wait to fish them in some of my favorite deep runs. So after getting up on the river and finding out the weather was alot more horrible then I had planned made the first part of the day miserable with what felt like 30+ mph winds and rain about made me turn back also made me wish I had not left my rain jacket in the Jeep. As I started to fish the tail end of the run I managed to catch one small rainbow and in my anxiousness to get to the upper part prob fished the middle section faster then I should and didnt catch anything there but as I got the upper part I managed to get my best fish of the day a nice fat rainbow with alot more color on it then you normally see of the smaller hatchery fish.

So as I made my way upstream I also caught 2 brown trout of about 12-13" and was hoping a spot my brother caught two 17" browns last year would produce a nice brown again but it didnt so I had to head back down stream to try a couple of other spots and managed to get one more brown trout. I dont know if it was my timing or what but I started missing or having fish come off pretty frequently at this point. So by then I was cold so I went and warmed up for a bit and added another layer and grabbed my rain jacket this time and headed to another area farther downstream and my problem of having fish come off continued. I usually dont have this problem but today must have just not been my day. So now with the wind picking back up again I just wanted one more fish and once again with probly my biggest catch of the day came off and I desided to call it quits and head home. But over all a pretty good day considering the wind and pain it caused with casting but was worth it and the olive/black wooly booger produced like i thought it would. I do hope to go either this friday or saturday to more then likely the watauga or maybe a smaller mountain stream and I will try to update with that or some other old fishing trips I have pictures of.