Headed to Raven Fork

Tomorrow morning Christy and I head out on a trip to celebrate our 8th trip around the sun as a married couple. We will backpack in to the GSMNP and fly fish and camp on Raven Fork Friday. Then on Saturday we will end up in a hotel with dinner at our favorite restaurant. The good news is that it is only about 3 miles to the campsite - extremely short. The bad news is that we have to pack in waders (heavy boot foot waders), vests, rods, reels, etc. I was amazed I got it all in my pack. Christy's pack has stuff hanging off of it in every direction. I managed to get everything inside but my net. You can get by without a net well enough, but mine is bamboo and pretty light so I am taking it.

I bought Christy a new reel this week so earlier in the week I rigged it up with backing and new fly line. That was Tuesday. That put me in just the right frame of mind to be useless for any thing else since then. Hopefully the brookies are biting.