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 cr...

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 camping/fi...

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

(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 conte...