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.
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.
