. . . as many times as I have fished those waters, I have never seen two wild tiger trout caught in the same day! Jason Jefferies caught one in the Whitewater River just upstream from the 281 bridge, and I caught mine in upper Bearwallow Creek, right beside the Gorges State Park access road.

I caught trout in 37 new creeks in NC (13 different counties) in 2024 to raise my total to 1086! Ten of them came off my bucket list!

I got five new creeks and fished some old favorites in the last trips of 2024.

the stream is beautiful, and it consistently has the best late-summer water-levels and fishing in WNC.

We had our annual camping trip at Snowbird Creek in June. I got six new creeks and it didn't rain all week!

Jason Jefferies and I fished Laurel Creek and it's two headwater tributaries back in May.

deep pool on Rock Creek I caught trout in 24 new creeks in NC (12 different counties) in 2023 to raise my total to 1049! Ten of them...

I finished up the year getting two new bucket list creeks, Pulliam Creek and the French Broad River.

My son-in-law had his first 25-fish day on flies, and I caught some nice browns on streamers.

I had three great days fly-fishing for Southern Appalachian brookies (speckled trout) and got two new creeks.

I post pictures of my annual Snowbird Creek camping trip and a fishing trip to Cataloochee Valley.

I fish a bucket list creek, an old favorite, and take my son-in-law to the cow pasture creek.

Fly fishing for wild rainbow trout in Jonathan Creek, Maggie Valley NC.

This is a summary of my fly fishing trips for trout in NC in 2022, including a link to my "Adventures of a Troutbum 2022" Youtube video.

I did a little blue line fishing in Jackson County and caught trout in three new creeks to raise my total to 1025,

Bobby Kilby and I fish some blue lines in the High Country. I get a wild trout slam on two consecutive days, and five new creeks!

This is a recap of our annual Snowbird camping and fishing trip.

I return to an old favorite cow pasture stream for a 20 fish day.

New Year's Day blue line fishing - I get new creek #1006 and Bobby Kilby extends his streak to 363 consecutive months catching trout

I did some blue line fishing in Madison County NC and got new creek #1004 - South Fork Big Pine Creek.