I accomplish my goal of catching trout on a fly in 1000 NC trout streams!

Another great week of camping at Snowbird!

I met Bobby Kilby in Boone for some blue line fishing and got three new creeks to raise my total to 990!

I caught all three species of stockers and wild rainbows and browns in Jonathan Creek, and before the day was done, specs in a tributary!

Bobby Kilby and I stayed at the Davidson River Campground for two nights - we did more scouting for new creeks than actually fishing them.

Brent Turner, a former student of mine, caught this tiger trout in Little East Fork Pigeon River last week. They are a hybrid, sterile...

I met up with Bobby Kilby for a day of exploring blue lines in Transylvania County.

Happy Fathers' Day to my favorite fishing buddy - Ray Sugg, Sr.!

Another great camping trip has come and gone. . .

"Take me to a creek where I can catch some wild trout" (Reid Warren)

There are wild rainbows in the Broad and virtually every one of it's headwater tributaries, but none of them are on public land.

I had a couple hours free between college football games that I cared about so I made the 15 minute run to the steel bridge hole.

All of the creeks we fished on Wednesday, August 7 would be considered "blue lines".

I caught trout on flies in Fowler Creek and Nicholson Licklog Creek, bringing my total for NC streams to 945.

My dad, who has never met a trout he wouldn't eat, really enjoys a newly stocked creek.

The annual Snowbird camping trip went on without founder Doug Brooks, who was on a cruise in Alaska.

New video - "Adventures of a Trout Bum 2018"

Since I started teaching and coaching at Tuscola High School back in 2001, I have been part of an annual week-after-graduation...

The creek pictured above is Hickory Flat Creek, a headwater tributary of East Fork French Broad River. When I learned that it would be...

(Photo by Jack Horan) Bobby Kilby decided on his own to become the first person to catch trout in 1,000 North Carolina streams. Not...