What a good day - a new creek, an old favorite, a new favorite, a wild trout hat trick (rainbows, browns, and brookies), 40+ trout, and I we

Another great camping trip has come and gone. . .

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

I headed over to Celo NC to fish some new creeks, and then fished an old favorite in Madison County on the way home. Seven new creeks!

I caught wild browns, got two new creeks, and got a little exercise as a bonus - what a good day!

Here is the gospel - Laurel River begins at Belva, the junction of 208 and 212.

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.

I headed to a speckled trout stream in Haywood County that you can drive to

Even though I was on the creek from 1:00 to 4:00 on a bright sunny day that hit 87 degrees, I still caught trout!

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

My "go to" spot when I don't have a lot of time is always Jonathan Creek in Maggie Valley.

Long Creek is a hatchery supported stream on the lower end and a wild trout/natural bait stream on game lands.

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

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As far as I'm concerned, a creek is not a real "blue line" unless it does not have a name. This one has a name, but it's probably somebod...

Little Santeetlah Creek in Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest is one of the prettiest creeks you will ever fish. It has a good population of wi...

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...

All you're getting from me on this one is that it is somewhere in Haywood County, it is not recognized by NCWRC as trout water, and it li...

Hurricane Creek runs under I-40 at mile marker 8. It used to be managed as a Hatchery Supported stream, but now is managed as Wild Trout/...