We headed back to Cataloochee yesterday to fish and see the elk. The colors are just about perfect right now. The problem with fishing is that the streams are absolutely full of leaves and trying to fish a nymph meant removing a leaf every other cast. On the way out (not in the park) we [...]
Monday was our last vacation day and we spent it over in the Tremont area of the park. I headed up Thunderhead Prong to do a little tenkara fly fishing. Thunderhead and Lynn Camp meet to form the Middle Prong of the Little River, otherwise known as Tremont. Lynn Camp is still closed to fishing [...]
After church on Sunday we hiked up to LeConte and out to Myrtle Point. Click any image for a larger version.
Today we took a trip into Cataloochee to fish Palmer Creek. First we hiked up to Lost Bottom Creek but then dropped back down to just above where Pretty Hollow Creek comes into Palmer. On Lost Bottom I was about to wade through a pool to head upstream and was stopped in my tracks. A [...]
We got a late start and the hike was about 9 miles round trip, so we only fished a little while. Still, we each hooked a couple nice brookies on the tenkara rods. Plus, I hooked my first trout on a fly I tied myself. As it turns out it was the fly pictured in [...]
Here are a few shots of one of the flies I’ve tied. This is in the tenkara style with a reversed hackle.It’s tied with Walmart thread and a bit it grizzly hen hackle on a size 14 hook.
Wednesday we went back to the same area we had visited Saturday and did another loop. One interesting thing about this part is that Finley Cane trail is actually a creek as it goes under the road. There is literally no trail, you just rock hop through. I was impressed with how pretty Finley Cane [...]
Saturday we headed toward Cade’s cove for a loop up Anthony Creek to Russell Field, to Spence Field, down Bote Mountain and back across Anthony Creek. It was a relatively uneventful trip, with no bears sited on the trail. We did spot two from the car though.
Back when we did the Tremont overnight loop, we had thought about adding on the Little Greenbrier Trail. But we were both exhausted and Christy was battling severe blisters, so we left it off. Saturday we made it back and just did a quick out and back. The trail is up the whole way, but [...]
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