I wanna go take a weekend trip up to the mountains on Sept 11th-13th. I hear there are trout in the streams up there. I’m lookin to go backpacking into the mountains and camp for the weekend and catch a fish or two.
Anyone wanna go? STAFF?
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-Chatooga river, start where the hwy28 bridge crosses into Georgia
-Pisgah Forest, inumerable trails and several rivers that hold trout
I would absolutely love to go, but I’m booked for the next month.
I would say the Chatooga, camp on the river, fish upstream one day, down stream the next day and sit around at night listening to the rushing water. I plan to be dove hunting or else I might would go. Need any trout stuff?
“The good fisherman is surprised when he doesn’t catch fish: I am just the other way around.”
Gene Hill, Passing a Good Time.
Word to the wise if you do camp on the river, pick a high spot. A few years ago hiked up the chatooga three miles and set up camp on a nice bluff right on the river. At about midnight, we got a light misting rain. By 2:00am the water had risen ten feet and we almost had to head to even higher ground.
good recommendations above…also check out the Davidson River. When I was in Clemson we would drive up there to fish all the time. Brevard is beautiful.
I fished the Davidson this past weekend and it was tough. The water level was low and the fish were not very happy. I did get one to rise to a parachute adams but that was it. I threw my entire fly box at them. First time I had been skunked in a while.
I haven’t fished the Chatooga in a long time but it is a beautiful river. Too bad you couldn’t wait until the delayed harvest kicked in.
Good Luck,
Chris
I fished the Chatooga a few days ago water felt really warm and didnt even see a fish. But I’m going to try again in the next week or so and see what happens.
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wait till Oct…i have a killer Brown pre spawn spot that is beautiful, bear ridden camping. i’ll fill ya in at the next meeting,
but yes, id like to head up…some real good spots in N georgia as well
I have fished both the Mills River and Davidson on numerous occasions.
Hit them at first light and you can’t miss.
Head over to the Tennessee side of the mountains. You could fish for trout in the mountain streams one day and hit a tailwater for much bigger fish the next. Tailwater trout are much less dependent on water temps since the temps vary little through out the year. Much more options than in North Carolina
Chris when are we going to go hunting man. Let me know i got a couple sweet set ups