I added new creeks #891-895 in one Saturday afternoon in Jackson and Macon Counties! I caught wild rainbows in Sugar Branch and Betty...

I fished North Shoal Creek in Cherokee County during spring break. I did not catch any trout, but a seven-inch creek chub (horny-head,...

After I did the uphill pull from Mulberry Creek (previous post), I drove to Blowing Rock and turned down Johns River Road, which...

Mulberry Creek is a tributary of Johns River in Caldwell County. Due to siltation and warm temperatures, the lower end is not trout...

I had a soccer tournament in Gastonia this weekend, and I took the long way home to pick up some new creeks. Little River runs through...

#859 - This is actually an unnamed tributary of Bradley Creek that flows out of Pilot Cove off of Yellow Gap Road. It does hold a few...

Wolf Laurel Branch is a tributary of Sand Creek, which is a tributary of Santeetlah Creek. I once tried to fish up Sand Creek until I...

Slaty Branch is a tributary of Flat Creek in Montreat containing wild rainbows. Most of it is very tight - I just fished long enough to...

Pool Creek runs into Lake Lure, and is the site of the former tourist attraction known as "The Bottomless Pools." The upper end is now...

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

Bullhead Creek in Stone Mountain State Park is now managed as a regular Wild Trout stream. Red wildflower (cardinal flower?) growing on...

(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...

I'm not there yet - 849 at the time of this post. This lovely waterfall is on Little Cove Creek in Polk County. I fished it almost a year...